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Dr Richard Kjellgren

Research Fellow

Faculty of Social Sciences Â鶹´«Ã½AV

Dr Richard Kjellgren

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About me

I am a Research Fellow at the Salvation Army Centre for Addiction Services and Research, Â鶹´«Ã½AV. My current work is focused on understanding mental health and substance use service access for people released from prison, using linked administrative health and justice data.

I have previously worked on various projects relating to policing organised crime, public protection and community justice. My PhD explored the role of online technologies in facilitating exploitation in the UK¡¯s off-street sex markets, and was focused on improving our understanding of open-source intelligence in the policing of sex trafficking.

Administrative data research, public health approaches in criminology, exploitation, networks, quantitative methods, mixed-methods.

Outputs (9)

Article

Access to services for mental ill-health and substance use among people released from prison in Scotland (RELEASE): Retrospective observational cohort study protocol

Kjellgren R, Savinc J, Dougall N, Kurdi A, Leyland A, Tweed E, Watson J, Hunt K & Connell C (2025) Access to services for mental ill-health and substance use among people released from prison in Scotland (RELEASE): Retrospective observational cohort study protocol. International Journal of Population Data Science, 10 (1). https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v10i1.2971

Research Report

Inverness and Cromarty Green Freeport: Assessing crime and security risks

Sheridan A, Atkinson C, Hamilton-Smith N, Kjellgren R, McVie S & Soliman F (2025) Inverness and Cromarty Green Freeport: Assessing crime and security risks. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research. https://www.sccjr.ac.uk/publication/inverness-and-cromarty-green-freeport-assessing-crime-and-security-risks/'

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