Outputs (14)

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 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.

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”.