Centre-funded research - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre

The Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre funds research that complements its strategic objectives and tackles current and emerging challenges related to vulnerability and policing.

The funded projects aim to build capacity and develop further opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.

A new approach to measuring police involvement with vulnerable people

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Defendants as victims: a scoping review of vulnerability, victimhood and safeguards from charge to conviction

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Mental health and wellbeing within the police workforce

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Over-policed and under-protected? Administrative justice, criminal justice, and positive obligations to protect “legally vulnerable” groups

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Volunteers and vulnerabilities: the politics of policing partnerships

Early Career Researcher Development Fund projects

These projects are funded by the Centre’s Early Career Researcher Development Fund. This enables early career researchers to lead co-produced pioneering projects that contribute new findings and insights.

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Domestic abuse service providers and their stories

Three cars under water as river floods. Photo by Chris Gallagher on Unsplash.

Policing and community resilience in the context of climate change

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Social media-facilitated trafficking of children and young people

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Reducing barriers to reporting public sexual harassment to the police: Towards procedural justice for racially minoritised vulnerable young women and girls

Who matters? A collaborative co-investigation of who needs to be included, according to families with children with explosive and controlling impulses

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Policing collective coercion: improving understandings of coercive control in honour-based violence and abuse

Roma voices for change: Identifying and managing child exploitation in Roma communities within Bradford

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Recognising the risks and harms for repeat missing children from different residential environments through a child and practitioner lens

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Experiences of and responses to intimate partner stalking in the lives of young people aged 13-19 years

Policing sextortion: improving understanding of the nature, extent and experiences of (re)victimisation

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Redefining vulnerability: Critically examining risk and protective factors in the context of romance fraud

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Stop and search and the reproduction of social inequality

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Developing an evidence-based interviewing approach for ethnically diverse missing persons investigations

Translational Fellowship projects

These projects are funded by the Centre’s Translational Fellowship funding programme, which enables non-academic practitioners and policy makers to undertake research that addresses particular vulnerability and policing problems or solutions in their work.

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Reframing the narrative of neurodivergent suspects of counter terrorism: The true victims of exploitation by algorithm

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