March 2024

Marginalised People’s Creative Responses to Justice Problems: The Arts and Public Audience, SIAH, Winchester School of Art

A day of workshops with creative practitioners and researchers sharing ideas around creative responses to marginalisation, injustice, and social + legal change

December 2023

Belgrade Theatre collaboration

We have an amazing creative team in place working on a play inspired by the findings of our research on police, culture & community, to be performed on 1st December at the Belgrade Theatre. You can learn more on our webpage for Belgrade Theatre Collaboration.

12-14th July 2023

European International Studies Association: 10th European workshops in International Studies

This series of workshops brought together a wide range of scholars to discussing the possibilities afforded by researcher engagement through the arts. We discussed the ways in which this engagement can enrich and complicate our understanding of objects of study such as policing; and talked around the complexities involved in translating academic research into creative pieces for a non-academic audience

27th-30th June 2023

British Society of Criminology 2023 conferenceLink opens in a new window

Alongside Prof Layla Skinns we co-organised a panel entitled 'The art of policing: the potential of arts and culture in changing police behaviours' where we considered the potential of arts-based approaches to preventive policing and community safety, and talked around the conditions for success - from resources and officer buy-in, to ethical boundaries and institutional change

15th June 2023

COPR event: Rethinking Policing

This event brought together researchers and practitioners to discuss policing, police-community relations, and possibilities for effecting change in police practice. We were joined by Dr Mike Rowe (Liverpool University), Jamie Hobday (WMP), and Sharda Murria (BCU), to share their research on understanding policing as an organisation, on institutional logics, and on body-worn video.

24th May 2023

NPCC VAWG Practice sharing event

At this event, we shared our research on the possibilities afforded by police engagement through arts and culture with seldom heard communities. Our audience included leads on VAWG across UK police forces

May 18th-19th

12th Conference on the future of adversarial and inquisitorial systems, University of Bologna

We presented our work at this conference on bias and criminal justice in Bologna.

April 2023

We're really pleased to see our research cited in the UK Parliament research briefing on levels of public trust in the police and strategies for building police-community relations

March 2023

Social Science Impact Celebration Event. It was great to present our research at this event and to hear about the other important IAA funded research taking place at Warwick

March 14th 2023, 14:00-15:00
Policing, Culture and Community — Resonate FestivalLink opens in a new window
A webinar exploring research into how the arts and culture can shift perceptions of policing