Month: October 2025

Webinar: Responding to domestic abuse – lessons from Greater Manchester and Victoria

Person in black jacket and grey denim jeans holding their hands together

This webinar shares findings from the Centre’s ‘Policing, Vulnerabilities and Domestic Abuse: Victims, Perpetrators, Interventions’ research project. 12pm – 1pm, Tuesday 9 December 2025 Online Domestic Abuse (DA)—referred to as Family Violence in Australia—encompasses physical, sexual, emotional, economic, and psychological behaviours used to exert power and control over a partner, ex-partner, or family member. Over …

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Policing, vulnerability and justice: Can we really reduce harm and strengthen justice in a time of crisis?

Professor Carlene Firmin delivering a keynote speech

By Storm Marsh-Smith. Published 13 October 2025. Reflections from the ‘Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice’ conference 2025 There was no holding back in the lively, passionate discussions across the two-day conference. Themes of trauma, repeated institutional failings within public services designed to keep us safe, and numerous accounts of injustice emerged – often …

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Webinar: Policing, climate vulnerabilities and pathways of resilience

Emergency service workers on a raft following flooding in the UK

This webinar will outline findings and recommendations from two research projects on how police and partner agencies are preparing for, responding to, and adapting to climate change. 12pm – 1pm, Thursday 13 November 2025 Online It is widely accepted that human-induced climate change poses ‘severe, interconnected and irreversible risks’ to ecosystems, biodiversity, and human societies. …

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