Our first international conference took place at Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park, Liverpool at the end of APril 2013. About 150 people attended. Approximately half were academic researchers associated with the research network; the other half were friends from policy and practice, or with life experience of supervision.

At the conference, the working group leaders reported the findings of the first year of our international research network (COST Action 1106) which exists to examine four main aspects of Offender Supervision in Europe: experiencing supervision, decision-making and supervision, practising supervision, and European policy and practice related to supervision. But we also enjoyed scene-setting and agenda-setting contributions from external academics: Michelle Phelps and Josh Page opened the conference and helped to set the scene, Sarah Turnbull and David Nelken closed the conference and helped to set the agenda for the next year or two of our work. Last but certainly not least, we benefited from a series of responses to the working group reports; those responses coming from policymakers, practitioners and people with experience of supervision.

http://www.offendersupervision.eu/international-conference