The Forward Trust

Mission of the organisation: Forward’s mission is to empower people to break the cycle of crime and addiction and to achieve transformational change.

Name NWP	The Forward Trust
Remarks (optional)	-
NWP of	UKent Please contact Dr Marisa Silvestri, Reader in Criminology, at sspssr-imarc@kent.ac.uk
Professional field NWP	Social business with charitable status.
Organisational structure	National organisation, no other sections/departments/divisions
Short description NWP organisation	Mission of the organisation: Forward’s mission is to empower people to break the cycle of crime and addiction and to achieve transformational change. Main activities of the organisation: Forward’s Theory of Change sets out a series of service pathways that our clients can follow to turn their lives around - covering drug and alcohol recovery, health and wellbeing, connections with family, friends and the wider world, employment and housing.
Thematic key words (following the criteria of IMARC dimensions)	One or more of IMARC’s three dimensions: social justice One (or more) themes within these dimensions: Theory & (research) Methodology Inclusion & Exclusion
Research needs and/or research questions NWP	Support with service evaluation projects
Offer NWP: the role of the IMARC researcher	participant observation, fieldwork access to data/documents possibility to consult experts and specialists actively contributing to the development of projects administrative tasks desk research
Number of IMARC researchers that can be placed at NWP per academic year	1 per year
Is it possible for IMARC researchers to have other forms of research collaboration and data collection (other than internship)?	Yes, namely: Data collection Survey / Interviews Document/archival research Participant observation Networking
Financial compensation (for IMARC researchers)	Yes: Travel costs
Selection procedure	No
Which language is required?	English
Certain agreements that need to be respected, such as screening procedures for students and confidentiality of the data, and the like?	Data confidentiality (in line with GDPR) Projects conducted must fall within remit of a service evaluation in order to be permitted without need for additional ethical approval
Possible start date / end date internship and/or other research collaboration	Flexible – to coincide with the commencement of an appropriate evaluation

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