The ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre has hosted Dr Jarrett Blaustein as an international visiting fellow to learn about his work on policing and climate change and to contribute to a new strand of work on policing futures that the Centre is developing. 15 March 2024 Dr Jarrett Blaustein is an Associate Professor …
Join us for the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre’s inaugural annual conference. 9am – 4.30pm, Thursday 5 September 2024 Cloth Hall Court, Quebec St, Leeds, LS1 2HA This one-day conference provides an opportunity for academics and practitioners to share ideas and create plans to improve the policies, systems and processes that impact the …
Join us for the launch of the new international Vulnerability and Policing PhD Network. 9.30am – 11.30am (GMT), Tuesday 12 March 2024 Online The ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre’s PhD Network brings together a community of PhD students researching the intersection of vulnerability and policing.In this launch event, interested PhD students will have …
The ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre is launching an international network for PhD students researching the intersection of vulnerability and policing. 13 February 2024 Established in 2022, the Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre aims to understand how vulnerabilities are produced, exacerbated and addressed by policing. This includes exploitation by county lines drug …
In this public lecture, Dr Jarrett Blaustein will explore what policing is, and what it might become, in the climate crisis. 12pm – 1.30pm, Thursday 7 March 2024 Moot Court Room, Liberty Building, School of Law, University of Leeds, LS3 1DB Climate change is the defining issue of our time. As the disruptive and destructive …
Dr Chris Devany (Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre) spoke about how police respond to ‘victims’ and ‘offenders’ across county lines drug networks at an event today. 10 January 2024 The talk was part of the University of York’s annual YorkTalks event, which included sixteen short talks about varied topics, such as public services, artificial …
Researchers have shared emerging findings from a study that aims to develop ways to prevent Online Child Sexual Victimisation (OCSV). 29 November 2023 Speaking at the Scottish International Policing Conference today (29 November), Dr Larissa Engelmann and Dr Christine A. Weirich reported on an ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre project that seeks to …
Professor Ana Aliverti (University of Warwick) has highlighted the moral tensions that arise in police and immigration officers’ everyday work, in a lecture at the University of York. 17 October 2023 Professor Aliverti explored the competing rationales, emotions and values that underpin the governance of marginalised groups. In particular, she looked at the example of …
Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Deputy Director Dr Kate Brown has taken part in a panel discussion about regulation aimed at protecting people presumed to be vulnerable. 27 September 2023 The discussion was one of several sessions that took place as part of an event on ‘vulnerability in regulation’, hosted by the London School …
Researchers from the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre have shared emerging findings from the Centre’s current projects at EuroCrim2023. 8 September 2023 Held in Florence, Italy, this year’s conference saw participants from a wide range of international organisations join, with Centre researchers speaking in several panel sessions. The first roundtable explored contested issues …