Our Co-Director Professor @adamcrawford.bsky.social led a roundtable discussion on the importance of listening to the voices of people with lived experience at @crimeandjustice.bsky.social's event on diversion last week. Read more 👇 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/news/centre-...

It was fantastic to welcome @tommcneil.bsky.social to @york.ac.uk and hear him talk about his newly-published book “Public Opinion on Crime: Message Framing and Deliberative Democracy”. Drawing on his PhD, Tom’s talk presented evidence on how to hold better public conversations and reach consensus

Vital new research by @dralimalik.bsky.social and funded by @vp-centre.bsky.social explores the role of Local Resilience Forums in preparing for and responding to the impacts of the climate crisis. For his recommendations, check out the article below👇 tinyurl.com/3fsxdns9 @ccjsleeds.bsky.social

Next year we will be hosting the 8th International Conference on Law Enforcement & Public Health with @glepha.bsky.social. The conference will focus on vulnerability, policing and public health. 🗓️ 6-9 September 2026 📍 @universityofleeds.bsky.social, UK Register your interest: leph2026.org

As part of our ECR Development Fund, @dralimalik.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social led a project exploring the role of the police and Local Resilience Forums in preparing for and responding to extreme weather events. Read more in the findings summary: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/policing-vul...

💥 Today is the day 💥 🎉 Join us at our Leeds Institute for Societal Futures launch event - we want to know what YOU think are the biggest challenges to address in our 4 challenge areas. 🕒 3–5pm | 📍Great Hall, University of Leeds 🎫 Register bit.ly/46dcU54 @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Support the #StandUpAgainstStreetHarassment campaign to create #SaferParks 💡 Learn the 5Ds to intervene safely ✅ Get free active bystander training 🚩 Display eye-catching posters ⬇️ Download Safer Parks guidance 📣 Let's StandUp together 🔗 Visit campaign at: www.greenflagaward.org/safer-parks-...

🚨 New report 🚨 Through our ECR Development Fund, we funded Dr Kirsty Bennett to lead a research project that explored the risks and harms for repeat missing children from different residential environments. Read more on our website 👇 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/recognising-...

Our Co-Director Professor @adamcrawford.bsky.social is speaking at @crimeandjustice.bsky.social's event on "Diversion in Practice: Implications for police reform and culture change" tomorrow. Register for a livestream: www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/diversion-in...

🚨 New report 🚨 Read our new research findings summary report “Developing AI tools to help quantify police involvement with vulnerable people” on our website: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/developing-a...

🚨 New report 🚨 We funded Dr Sarah Shorrock to lead a research project that aimed to provide Roma communities in Bradford with a voice and to explore what it means to be Roma, alongside capturing police perceptions of what being Roma means. Read more👇 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/lost-in-tran...

ROOM CHANGE This event will now take place in Room CL/A/002 Business Lounge, Church Lane Building on the @york.ac.uk campus. Read more and register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-lec...

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 We're looking for an ambitious, impact-focused Research Fellow to join @vp-centre.bsky.social. The role is full-time and fixed-term until 30 April 2027. Salary: £41,064-£48,822 Based at: @universityofleeds.bsky.social Deadline: 13 October 2025 jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Register for our upcoming public lecture by @tommcneil.bsky.social "Public Opinion on Crime: Message Framing and Deliberative Democracy". 🗓️ 1 October 🕐 1pm - 2.30pm 📍 Room D/L/047, Derwent College L Block, @york.ac.uk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-lec...

🚨 New report 🚨 As part of our Connected Data Analytics programme, we have been exploring how school absences and academic attainment are related to the risk of becoming NEET. Read about it in our new research findings summary report 👇 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/school-absen...

🚨 New report 🚨 This study identified challenges and opportunities in responding to family violence/domestic abuse perpetrators, drawing on the experiences of practitioners and policy makers in Greater Manchester and Victoria. Read the findings below 👇 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/responding-t...

Save the date! 📣 The Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association and the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre are proud to co-host the 8th International Law Enforcement and Public Health Conference in Leeds, UK from 6–9 September 2026.

It was fantastic to welcome so many researchers, policing, public health and third sector professionals, policy makers and community leaders to our second annual conference. Thank you to everyone for your contributions! vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/news/centre-...

Day 2 of our annual conference is underway! Our Co-Director Professor Kate Brown opens by highlighting @vp-centre.bsky.social's programme of research and its relevance for the biggest challenges facing the UK

We’re delighted to get Day 1 of our annual conference underway with Professor @carlenefirmin.bsky.social speaking on the realities of safeguarding young people from extra-familial harm

⏳ There’s less than 1 month left to apply for our Early Career Researcher Development Fund. Grants of up to £25,000 are available for ECRs to lead co-produced projects that tackle current and emerging challenges related to vulnerability and policing. vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/early-career...

You can now read our 2024/25 annual report on our website, which covers our research progress, capacity building and engagement and impact activities: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/wp-content/u...

⌛ There’s only 1 week left to apply for the role of @vp-centre.bsky.social Impact and Knowledge Exchange Officer Salary: £37,174 - £45,413 per year Based at @york.ac.uk Deadline: 26/08/2025 Read more and apply 👇 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/impa...

🗓️ Register your interest for LEPH2026 🖥️ Watch a webinar exploring our county lines research findings 🏫 Read about our recent international PhD Summer School All in our latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/8b11dc749e9c...

Next year, we will be hosting the 8th International Law Enforcement and Public Health Conference with @glepha.bsky.social at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b44O...  Read more and register your interest at leph2026.org

The first two journal articles from our Minimum Policing Standard project have been published open access in Policing and Society. Read ‘Public confidence in the police: using opinion survey data to explore the current ‘moment’ in British policing’ 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The first two journal articles from our Minimum Policing Standard research project have been published in Policing and Society and are freely available open access. Read “What service should police provide? Towards a minimum policing standard” below 👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

⌛️ There’s only 2 weeks left to book your place at our annual conference “Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice”. 🗓️ 9-10 September 2025 📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, UK Read more and register below 👇 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...

🚨 Job opportunity 🚨 We’re looking for a fixed term full-time Impact and Knowledge Exchange Officer to join @vp-centre.bsky.social. Salary: £37,174 - £45,413 per year Based at @york.ac.uk Deadline: 26/08/2025 Read more and apply 👇 jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/impa...

We’ve funded a project by @aledelafuentevilar.bsky.social (University of Portsmouth) on “Developing an evidence-based interviewing approach for ethnically diverse missing persons investigations” as part of our Early Career Researcher Development Fund: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/developing-a...

We were delighted to host 21 PhD students at @york.ac.uk as part of our international PhD Summer School last month. Our postgraduate researcher Sat Kartar Kaur Chandan reflects on the event in this blog: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/policing-vul...

Are you an Early Career Researcher investigating challenges related to vulnerability and policing? If so, you could be eligible to apply for a grant of up to £25,000 for a 12-month research project. Read more on our website 👇 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/early-career...

Thoughtful review of our recent paper in Policing & Society by San Gilmour. From our minimum policing standard research project @vp-centre.bsky.social @benbradford.bsky.social @drcaweirich.bsky.social @davejrowlands.bsky.social 👇🏽 www.linkedin.com/pulse/commun...

We’ve funded a project by Dr Thiago R. Oliveira from @criminologyuom.bsky.social on “Stop and search and the reproduction of social inequality” as part of our Early Career Researcher Development Fund. Read more 👇 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/stop-and-sea...

Tickets are still available for our annual conference “Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice”. 🗓️ 9-10 September 2025 📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, UK Read more and register: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...

Read our latest research findings summary report from Dr Alice Siberry’s Translational Fellowship project “Reframing the narrative of neurodivergent suspects of Counter Terrorism: The true victims of exploitation by algorithms” vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/reframing-th...

🖥️ ICYMI you can now watch our webinar “Reframing the narrative of neurodivergent suspects of Counter Terrorism – The true victims of exploitation by algorithms” on our website: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/webinar-refr...

With @glepha.bsky.social, we’re delighted to be convening the 8th International Conference on Law Enforcement & Public Health in Leeds, UK next year! 📅 6 - 9 September 2026 📍 @universityofleeds.bsky.social Pre-register: leph2026.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=b44O...

📢 The @vp-centre.bsky.social's Early Career Researcher (ECR) Development Fund is now open for applications. This is a vulnerability and policing open call with research grants of up to £25,000 for 12-month projects. If you’re interested find out more: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/early-career...

We’ve been delighted to be part of the 7th International Conference on Law Enforcement & Public Health at the University of Ottawa this week where we've been sharing our research with attendees from policing and public health @glepha.bsky.social @uoysbs.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social

Great to hear from Prof Emilio Ayos @emilioayos.bsky.social from the University of Buenos Aires on ‘Contested Imaginaries: Youth, Inequality, and Security in Argentina’ hosted by @lssi.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social A member of the @vp-centre.bsky.social International Advisory Board 👇🏽

⏳ There's still time to apply for the role of Project Manager at the new Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence (TYP-ACE). Deadline: 21 July Read more and apply below 👇

Read our latest newsletter to learn more about our: 🗣️ Confirmed plenary speakers at our annual conference 🗒️ New research projects 🗓️ Upcoming webinar "Reframing the narrative of neurodivergent suspects of Counter Terrorism – The true victims of exploitation by algorithms" mailchi.mp/74c77efb41a6...

We’ve had the pleasure of hosting 21 amazing PhD students as part of our international Vulnerability & Policing PhD Summer School at @york.ac.uk this week. We’re looking forward to keeping in touch with them and hearing all about progress in their PhDs and their journeys beyond.

Great to hear @dralimalik.bsky.social present some of his research findings supported by a @vp-centre.bsky.social ECR grant informing his current ESRC COLIF fellowship at the ESRC Regional Engagement event @york.ac.uk @ccjsleeds.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Less than 1 week to register for our webinar “Reframing the narrative of neurodivergent suspects of Counter Terrorism – The true victims of exploitation by algorithms”, exploring research from Dr Alice Siberry (Creased Puddle). 🗓️ 16 July 🕛 12-1pm Register 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reframing-...

We are delighted to share the inaugural edition of our brand new CCJS newsletter. Every quarter we will be sharing the latest research developments, impact activities, events and other news from across our community. Read the first edition here: campaignmonitor.leeds.ac.uk/t/y-e-cuidyo...

Tickets are still available for our annual conference “Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice”. 🗓️ 9-10 September 2025 📍 Cloth Hall Court, Leeds, UK Read more and register: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...

We’re delighted to get our Vulnerability and Policing International PhD Summer School underway at @york.ac.uk today! We’re joined by 21 PhD students from institutions across the UK and around the world for a busy week-long programme. vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/vulnerabilit...

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 An ESRC White Rose DTP Associated Studentship based at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social is open for applications: "Cross-System Insights from Linked Public Service Data". Deadline: Friday 18 July 2025 phd.leeds.ac.uk/funding/419-...