The South West Offender Health Research Network is co-ordinated by the Prison Health Research Programme at the University of the West of England, Bristol, and funded by the South West Health and Social Care Criminal Justice Board and the Department of Health Prison Health Research Network. SWOHRN endeavours to facilitate research across the offender management system, and to build new alliances across the different sectors of the criminal justice and health systems.
Our ethos is to support those working in the south west to improve health and wellbeing of offenders, through collaboration with partners within the NHS, social care, the criminal justice system, third sector organisations and universities. We aim to facilitate collaborative research that can contribute to the provision of quality health and social care services for offenders, equivalent to that of society at large. This involves building partnerships between all agencies that work with offenders and integrating health and social development into the core business of these key institutions.  

If you have information you would like to share on the site relevant to offender health research, please contact us via email, especially primary research, news of conferences or events or educational opportunities.