Hannah Acido is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day financial administration, human resources policies and general operation of the Centre including managing and developing relationships. She also organises the internal and corporate events, and prior to working at the Centre, Hannah worked in property administration, event planning and as a private PA.
hacido@justiceinnovation.org | 020 3735 9431 |
As Director, Phil Bowen sets and leads the work and overall strategy of the organisation. Prior to being Director, Phil spent the majority of his career in the British civil service. He worked for the Home Office and Ministry of Justice, before working at HM Treasury and Cabinet Office as a delivery adviser to the Prime Minister on criminal justice reform. During his time in the civil service, he spent 14 months on secondment to the Center for Court Innovation in New York, working at Bronx Community Solutions.
pbowen@justiceinnovation.org | 020 3735 9433 | Twitter:@PhillipBowen45
Claire Ely is in charge of our innovative practice work. This includes working with practitioners to understand problems they face, supporting them to develop, test and embed new or improved ways of working, and identifying and sharing lessons from the implementation of new projects. Claire has extensive frontline experience of the criminal justice system from her time as a probation officer, most recently as Serious Group Offending (Gangs) lead in Southwark.
cely@justiceinnovation.org | 020 3735 9437
As Research Intern, Michael is responsible for the delivery of the Innovative Practice Map project and updating the Centre’s database of Youth Diversion schemes. Before he joined the Centre, he worked in the charity sector as a project delivery assistant and liaison. He studied Politics and Economics at the University of Nottingham, and a Masters in International Public Policy at the University College London.
Duncan oversees the Centre's policy and external affairs work. Duncan has previously worked in health and early education policy, and has an MA in Philosophy from Brandeis University and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.
dlugton@justiceinnovation.org | 020 3735 9437
As Deputy Director, Vicki Morris leads the Centre’s innovative practice work and has oversight of the Centre’s essential services. She has considerable experience in operations and practice in the criminal justice sector through her previous role as the Head of Education in a young offender institution and her secondment to a closed female prison. Vicki started her career as a teacher in mainstream secondary education. She has a degree in English Literature and is also currently studying towards a degree in Youth Justice.
vmorris@justiceinnovation.org | 020 3735 9435
Carmen Robin-D’Cruz works to research, develop and test new approaches to justice system practice, particularly in the youth justice system. She is responsible for identifying evidence of effective practice and producing practical evidence-led recommendations for service delivery that can be implemented and evaluated. Carmen has previously worked as Research Advisor at the University of Edinburgh and Research Assistant at Reading University’s School of Law. She studied Law at University College London and has a Bachelor of Civil Law from the University of Oxford.
cdcruz@justiceinnovation.org | 020 3735 9436
As Family Justice Practice Officer, Albinia Stanley works to strengthen, champion and expand the Family Drug and Alcohol Courts. This includes supporting practitioners in existing FDACs and working with stakeholders to enable more families to access the problem-solving approach. Albinia has frontline experience in family justice, having previously worked as an advocate for children and young parents within the care system and child protections settings. She has a degree in English Literature from the University of Cambridge.
Stephen Whitehead oversees the Centre’s research work, heading up our work to develop the evidence base around innovative practice in the justice system. His work focusses particularly on sentencing decisions, the use of community sentences and problem-solving courts. In his previous role, he established the New Economics Foundation’s criminal justice reform programme which explored the role that diversion and specialist courts could play in the UK. He holds an MRes from Birkbeck College in public policy.
swhitehead@justiceinnovation.org | 020 3735 9437 | Twitter:@Stephenoncrime