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A group of young people sat at a cafe smiling and chatting
11/09/2024

Early Career Researcher vulnerability and policing funding call opens

The ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre has launched the third call of its annual Early Career Researcher (ECR)...
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Professor Dame Sara Thornton stood at a lectern speaking to an audience at the Centre's annual conference
05/09/2024

Centre conference explores how to reshape the relationship between vulnerability and policing

The ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre held its first annual conference today (5 September) with nearly 200 researchers,...
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Audience in a lecture theatre
22/07/2024

Researchers showcase new vulnerability and policing findings at national conference

ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre researchers have shared new findings from Centre projects at a national criminology conference....
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Two Metropolitan police officers stood at Trafalgar Square as members of the public walk by
17/04/2024

New research projects to tackle key vulnerability and policing challenges

The ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre has funded four new research projects led by Early Career Researchers (ECRs)...
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Dr Jarrett Blaustein stood at a lectern delivering a public lecture to an audience
15/03/2024

Centre welcomes leading researcher on policing and climate change

The ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre has hosted Dr Jarrett Blaustein as an international visiting fellow to learn...
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A group of postgraduate students sat around a table in discussion while conducting group work
13/02/2024

Centre launches international PhD Network

The ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre is launching an international network for PhD students researching the intersection of...
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Dr Chris Devany speaking at a lectern with University of York YorkTalks branding in the background
10/01/2024

Talk highlights how policing navigates challenges of County Lines drug markets

Dr Chris Devany (Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre) spoke about how police respond to ‘victims’ and ‘offenders’ across county...
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Dr Larissa Engelmann talking to a woman at an event
29/11/2023

Local approaches key when responding to online child sexual victimisation, researchers argue

Researchers have shared emerging findings from a study that aims to develop ways to prevent Online Child Sexual Victimisation (OCSV)....
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Immigration Enforcement officers entering a house
17/10/2023

Lecture explores the dilemmas of migration policing

Professor Ana Aliverti (University of Warwick) has highlighted the moral tensions that arise in police and immigration officers’ everyday work,...
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Dr Kate Brown speaking at an event
27/09/2023

Centre Deputy Director argues for better ways of approaching vulnerability

Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Deputy Director Dr Kate Brown has taken part in a panel discussion about regulation...
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