This post launches my new website. The timing coincides with a career move: from next Monday, I will be joining the University of Southampton Law School as a Research Fellow, where I’ll be working to prepare to publish my PhD as a book, and to undertake new research on parole decision-making in England and Wales.
The site brings together various aspects of my work. Visitors can find information about my current interests and background, access my publications, and read blog posts about my research. I’ve migrated content from my previous blog, Changing Inside, which documented my PhD research on life imprisonment between 2018 and 2024, but which will disappear when its current hosting deal expires in March.
I want my work to be as accessible as possible, so a key feature of the site is my commitment to open access. Wherever possible, I’ve included links to OA versions of my past publications, with the text available either directly here,1 or via links to copies deposited in repositories elsewhere on the web. This approach will continue with future publications.
1 Courtesy of three tools: the excellent Quarto publication system, GitHub Pages, and Mat DeHaven’s academic website template.
Looking ahead, I plan to resume blogging about my research. My work at Southampton will focus on parole decision-making, a topic which builds on my previous research on life imprisonment, while also hopefully opening up new questions about how decisions about risk and prison release are made. I look forward to sharing insights and reflections as the project develops.
Please feel free to explore the site and get in touch if you’d like to discuss any aspect of my work.
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@online{jarman2024,
author = {{Ben Jarman}},
title = {Welcome to My New Academic Homepage},
date = {2024-11-27},
url = {https://benjarman.uk/news/welcome-new-homepage.html},
langid = {en-GB}
}