All Outputs (21)

Across landscapes and lifetimes: Perceptions of gender-based violence from survivors of violence against women and girls (VAWG) (2024)
Journal Article

Violence Against Women and Girls in public spaces has become a focus for violence prevention policy since the murder of Sarah Everard but is this how survivors experience VAWG? This study listened to survivors as part of Safer Spaces funded research.... Read More about Across landscapes and lifetimes: Perceptions of gender-based violence from survivors of violence against women and girls (VAWG).

Understanding, defining, engaging and evaluating secondary child sexual abuse prevention interventions (2024)
Report

The first 2PS (Prevent & protect through support) Knowledge Transfer Workshop (KTW) was held with stakeholders on 22nd January 2024 at UWE in Bristol bringing together professionals, practitioners, academics, and policy makers from acro... Read More about Understanding, defining, engaging and evaluating secondary child sexual abuse prevention interventions.

The University Beat - Critical Reflections on the Delivery of Police Education in England and Wales (2024)
Book

This book presents critical reflections on the professionalisation of policing through the delivery of the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA), Degree Holder Entry Programme (DHEP) and Pre-Join degrees by HEIs in the UK. Each chapter is wri... Read More about The University Beat - Critical Reflections on the Delivery of Police Education in England and Wales.

Talking teaching with criminologists - Podcast BSC LTD 'Pracademics in higher education' with Dr Jill Dealey (2024)
Digital Artefact

In this episode Drs Anne Eason (University of the West of England) and Jill Dealey (University of Portsmouth) discuss 'pracademics': criminal justice practitioners moving into full-time university teaching on both traditional and vocational (police,... Read More about Talking teaching with criminologists - Podcast BSC LTD 'Pracademics in higher education' with Dr Jill Dealey.

Issues, challenges and opportunities for trauma-informed practice (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper

This report was kindly produced by Dr Sarah Senker, Dr Anne Eason, Dr Chris Pawson and Professor Kieran McCartan, building upon previous Academic Insights papers and highlighting some of the key issues, challenges and opportunities for trauma-informe... Read More about Issues, challenges and opportunities for trauma-informed practice.

The rise and fall of emotional intelligence in police risk assessments of domestic abuse (2023)
Journal Article

The policing of domestic abuse is a significant and problematic element of the frontline officer’s everyday business. Finding ways through which we can improve officers’ interactions with female victims has been none more pressing than in the post co... Read More about The rise and fall of emotional intelligence in police risk assessments of domestic abuse.

Introduction (2023)
Book Chapter

In this introduction to the book, some context to the authors is provided, their experience and positioning within the framework of policing, the College of Policing PEQF and its growing relationship with higher education and the academic arena. Each... Read More about Introduction.

Ethics and considering the risks of de-sensitization (2023)
Book Chapter

Ethical practice is nothing new for those who work in the criminal justice sector and policing has its own Code of Ethics within which police practice is framed. The ethical practices required by social researchers are of similar ilk, ensuring the re... Read More about Ethics and considering the risks of de-sensitization.

A climate of change (2023)
Book Chapter

The police professionalisation movement has resulted in the development of new pathways of training and education for new recruits. Guided by the College of Policing Police Education Qualifying Framework, the new models involve close collaboration wi... Read More about A climate of change.

A Police Officer’s Guide to Academic Research (2023)
Book

This book highlights how the practical skills of the police officer can be transferred into the realm of academic research and support them in becoming part of the evidence-based policing movement. It starts by exploring the professionalisation of th... Read More about A Police Officer’s Guide to Academic Research.

Operationalising theory; the role of the pracademic in the pedagogy of student police officers (2022)
Book Chapter

As the growth of degree apprenticeships becomes an ever-increasing provision of universities across England and Wales so the need to extend the experiential knowledge in academic teaching grows. It could be argued that none is more high-profile than... Read More about Operationalising theory; the role of the pracademic in the pedagogy of student police officers.

Policing the mental health crisis (2022)
Book Chapter

A comparative study of prior learning for serving police officers in Canada and England and Wales, UK: Bridging the academic gap (2021)
Journal Article

The professionalisation of the police in Canada, and England and Wales has highlighted a gap in the education levels of new recruits and current serving police officers, motivating many of these officers
to complete a university degree. The prior ex... Read More about A comparative study of prior learning for serving police officers in Canada and England and Wales, UK: Bridging the academic gap.

"He said sorry" - Well that changes everything. (2021)
Journal Article

Emotional intelligence for policing domestic violence (2020)
Other

The idea of emotional intelligence as a skill in policing has had little attention either operationally or in research. Nevertheless, in a recent study in England and Wales that explored the use of emotional intelligence (EI) in decision-making at d... Read More about Emotional intelligence for policing domestic violence.

Criminology placements: Work-based learning and organisational “buy in” (2020)
Journal Article

© 2020, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: This study aims to explore the views of criminal justice and allied sector organisations and agencies, of why they provide placements for the Applied Criminology programme at the University of Worcester, U... Read More about Criminology placements: Work-based learning and organisational “buy in”.

Applying 'spidey sense': Emotional intelligence and police decision-making at domestic incidents (2019)
Thesis

Chaos theory suggests a small act can have a powerful impact on future events. This research takes this suggestion and explores the decision-making of police officers at domestic violence incidents as just such an act that can have a long-term impact... Read More about Applying 'spidey sense': Emotional intelligence and police decision-making at domestic incidents.

The pedagogy of placements in criminology teaching: An interactive parallel model of criminological learning (2018)
Journal Article

Are you listening? Can you hear my voice? Exploring the application of ABE Guidance with CSE victims (2018)
Report

This research project was one of a number of Police led research projects carried out in partnership with the University of Bedfordshire International Centre CSE Policing and Knowledge hub and funded by the College of Policing. As part of this projec... Read More about Are you listening? Can you hear my voice? Exploring the application of ABE Guidance with CSE victims.

Evaluation of trauma informed training commissioned by Avon and Somerset Violence Reduction Unit and its Trauma informed Approaches steering group
Report

Avon and Somerset OPCC & Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) Hub commissioned this evaluation research to understand the training delivered through 2022. Rockpool was commissioned to produce 4 training courses (Working with Trauma; Creating a Trauma Inform... Read More about Evaluation of trauma informed training commissioned by Avon and Somerset Violence Reduction Unit and its Trauma informed Approaches steering group.