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.

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

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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

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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

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Social Media-Facilitated Trafficking of Children and Young People

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 and community resilience in the context of climate change

Teenage boy stood with arms crossed alone in a field. Photo by Lesli Whitecotton on Unsplash.