Dave J Rowlands

Responding to domestic abuse: lessons from Greater Manchester and Victoria This webinar shares findings from the ‘Policing, Vulnerabilities and Domestic Abuse: Victims, Perpetrators, Interventions’ research project.

What can we learn from domestic abuse responses in Greater Manchester & Victoria (Australia)?

Join our webinar for insights into multi-agency approaches & opportunities for advancing domestic abuse responses.

🗓️ 9 December 2025
🕛 12-1pm GMT

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Mental Health and Routine Police Work - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre The Mental Health and Routine Police Work project explores how police officers respond to mental health problems in ‘everyday’, policing.

Police are concerned about the amount of resources directed at mental health, and are not always the right agency to help.

Our study aims to understand the nature of police contact with mental health and make recommendations for positive practice.

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Bradford mapping research: service provision for vulnerable groups in contact with the police - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre This research project will map the services used by vulnerable groups who are in contact with the police in Bradford.

📍 Our Bradford mapping research investigates how vulnerable groups engage with police and public services.

Read more about our work exploring service provision and inter-agency responses 👇

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Connected Data Analytics - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Our Connected Data Analytics programme explores how routinely collected data can be used to improve service delivery for vulnerable people.

Our Connected Data Analytics programme explores how administrative datasets – combined with a range of other information – can provide powerful insights into the types of problems that many disadvantaged communities experience.

Read more 👇

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Centre Co-Director speaks about the importance of lived experience voices at national event on diversion - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Professor Adam Crawford led a key roundtable discussion on the importance of listening to the voices of people with lived experience.

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.

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Lost in translation: raising awareness of Roma culture within policing - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Read the research summary report "Lost in Translation: Raising Awareness of Roma Culture within Policing" by Dr Sarah Shorrock.

🚨 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👇

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Responding to family violence/domestic abuse: lessons from Greater Manchester (UK) and Victoria (Australia) - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Read the summary report "Responding to family violence/domestic abuse: lessons from Greater Manchester (UK) and Victoria (Australia)".

🚨 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 👇

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You can now read our 2024/25 annual report on our website, which covers our research progress, capacity building and engagement and impact activities:

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What service should police provide? Towards a minimum policing standard Police in England and Wales are under growing pressure to respond to multiple demands, with budgets and capabilities failing to keep pace. Alongside this, public scandals and wrongdoing are regular...

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 👇

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Police are failing to meet the public’s minimum standards of service, researchers find - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Police services across Britain are failing to meet the public’s minimum standards of service delivery, according to a new Centre report.

Summary findings from the @vp-centre.bsky.social Minimum Policing Standard national survey with @benbradford.bsky.social published today
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Community Wisdom and Democratic Policing: A Practitioner-Academic Response to Bradford et al.'s Minimum Policing Standard† "The most profound finding of this research is not what communities want from police, but how their sophisticated understanding of their policing needs exposes the poverty of both technocratic experti...

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

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Delighted to share first 2 articles from @vp-centre.bsky.social Minimum Policing Standard research @benbradford.bsky.social @drcaweirich.bsky.social & Dr Rowlands Open access:
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National policing strategy needed to tackle County Lines child exploitation, study shows - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre There is no consistent approach to county lines policing, leaving children and adults vulnerable to exploitation and harm, our research shows.

Inconsistent approaches to the policing of county lines drug distribution are leaving children and adults vulnerable to exploitation and harm, our research, the first national study of county lines policing across the UK, shows.

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Annual conference - Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Register for the Centre's annual conference: Vulnerability and Policing: Reducing Harm, Strengthening Justice.

We’re delighted to share our conference programme. As well as @carlenefirmin.bsky.social & Darren McGarvey keynotes, the event includes sessions on gender-based violence, neighbourhood policing, diversion, and lots more!

📅 9-10 Sept 25
📍 Leeds

Register: vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/annual-confe...

📢 Calling PhD students 📢

Register for our latest Vulnerability and Policing PhD Network webinar: "Online vulnerabilities in the context of domestic abuse and fraud".

@vp-centre.bsky.social @the-sipr.bsky.social

🗓️ Tuesday 25 March
🕑 2pm-3pm
📍 Online

Info: bit.ly/4isNG6V

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Police are failing to deliver a minimum standard of service, according to the UK public We asked members of the public how to restore trust in police – here’s what their answers revealed.

An article on government plans for neighbourhood policing informed by our ‘minimum policing standard’ research & national survey findings @vp-centre.bsky.social with @benbradford.bsky.social @davejrowlands.bsky.social & @drcaweirich.bsky.social
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Co-Director shares insights from Centre work in a panel discussion on evidence-informed policing - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Centre Co-Director Professor Adam Crawford has taken part in a knowledge exchange event on evidence-informed policing.

Our Co-Director @adamcrawford.bsky.social took part in a knowledge exchange panel discussion last week, as part of Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority’s Research & Evidence Forum.

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Do people think police are meeting minimum standards of service delivery? - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Read the Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre’s report: Do people think police are meeting minimum standards of service delivery?

Do people think police are meeting minimum standards of service delivery?

We created a nationally representative survey with questions informed by our work on developing the Minimum Policing Standard to find out.

Read our findings summary 👇

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Service provision for vulnerable people in contact with policing: a strategic view from Bradford - Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre Read the Centre's report "Service provision for vulnerable people in contact with policing: a strategic view from Bradford".

As part of our place-based research, this study mapped services used by vulnerable people in contact with police across Bradford to understand the nature and make-up of service provider networks and their relations with vulnerable people.

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📢For all PhD students looking at vulnerability and policing related topics.

🎓We have developed a PhD summer school programme that you won't want to miss! I hope to see some of you in York this summer!

📝If you have any questions, please get in touch, otherwise sign up below until 28th February:

A great opportunity for PhD researchers in the field of policing and vulnerability…
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