Jill Vincent was a Research Fellow at CRSP. She originally trained in fine arts, and returned to study sociology and political science as a mature student, gaining her PhD in 1982. She spent some years as a tutor for the Open University. She worked with Anne Peaker on studies of arts activities in prisons and special hospitals, and maintained a wide range of research interests. Jill went on to found the Unit for the Arts and Offenders with Anne Peaker and since retiring, is still actively involved as Chair of Trustees.

Geoffrey Peaker joined HM Inspectorate of Schools in 1971 where he held a number of different posts culminating in that of Acting Chief Inspector for Higher Education in 1989. From 1979 to 1982 he was responsible for the educational research programme of the then Department for Education and Science, leading the Inspectorate's work on teacher performance appraisal.

Christopher Maughan is Head of Arts Management at De Montfort University (Leicester), where he teaches courses on general management practice, fund-raising and event management.  His background is in engineering, the biological sciences and jazz promotion.

Before taking early retirement in 2006, Margaret Cund was a member of the Senior Civil Service in the Department for International Development (DFID).  There, her professional experience was principally in financial management and accountability and the corporate governance of multilateral institutions, providing advice to Ministers on these matters.  She regularly represented the British Government at international meetings around the world.  In 2005, she headed DFID's work on the international development agenda for the UK Presidencies of the G8 and European Union, networking closely with

Sylvia Edwards was trained in textile design at Middlesex University and went on to practice as a designer with her own business in London and East Anglia. She has devised and facilitated visual art programmes in psychiatric hospital settings, prisons, youth offending team centres, and for youth inclusion programmes, often working with textiles and mosaics.

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Dominic Taylor manages communications in the Race and Equalities Action Group for the National Offender Management Service and became a trustee for Anne Peaker Centre in 2008.

Previously, five years were spent as a prison officer in HMP Brixton and, 6 months, delivering offending behaviour programmes at London Probation's Stockwell Road office.

This followed fifteen years as an actor, working in theatre, radio, film and television.

Trained as a professional photographer at Nottingham Trent University, Froydis Twist took her creative expertise to Youth Work and the Criminal Justice System working in a variety of settings including HM Prisons, Young Offender Institutions, Youth Offending Teams and residential drug rehabilitation centres.  Drawing on her background in the arts, Froydis has been working with vulnerable young people and adults using innovative support strategies to help individuals gain insight into their own experience and empower them to make positive changes in their lives.