[SOLD OUT] ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre’s inaugural annual conference

The ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre’s inaugural annual conference is now fully booked. Join the waiting list to be notified if places become available.

Thurs 5 September 2024 | 09am – 4.30pm 

Cloth Hall Court, Quebec St, Leeds LS1 2HA

Reshaping the relationship between vulnerability and policing

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 policing of people considered vulnerable.

The sessions will reveal new findings from the Centre’s research projects and provide insights into the latest vulnerability and policing work. By bringing academics, practitioners and policy makers together, the event will offer opportunities to explore how research can be applied into policy and practice.

Session topics will include:

• Conceptualising Vulnerability
• Children and Young People
• Mental Health
• Gender-based Violence
• Place-based Research
• County Lines
• Vulnerability & the Law
• Data Science
• Diversity
• Public Expectations/Views of Policing

The full programme is available to view on the Centre’s conference information page.

The conference is now fully booked but individuals can join the waiting list by completing this form.

Keynote addresses

Keynote addresses will be delivered by:

• Professor Dame Sara Thornton, Rights Lab Professor of Practice in Modern Slavery Policy – University of Nottingham
• Will Linden, Deputy Director Research – Scottish Violence Reduction Unit