Impact and Engagement
Policy
We were pleased to have our research cited in the UK Parliament Report on Trust in the Police (POSTnote 693, R Brown & A Hobbs)
April 2023
Policing, Culture and Community: West Midlands Police as City of Culture Partners
Presentation to Technical Reference Group
November 2022
Public Understanding
Belgrade Theatre Collaboration - workshops and performance
November and December 2023
Policing, culture & community: West Midlands Police as City of Culture partners
Webinar presentation as part of Resonate Festival, to academic researchers, police, councillors and arts practitioners
March 2023 (Attended by 40 people with post-talk Q&A)
Policing, Culture and Community: Independent researchers and evaluationLink opens in a new window
The UK Cities of Culture Project: Connecting place, culture, research and impact - stories from Coventry
February 2023
Public engagement with the police through arts and culture
ESRC Festival of the Social Sciences roundtable event
November 2022
Professional Practice
And Now For Something Completely Different – Using Arts and Culture to Build Trust and Confidence in Policing, Plenary: National Police Chiefs' Council, College of Policing & Association of Police and Crime Commissioner's Diversity, Equality & Inclusion Conference, November 2022 (Attended by over 180 delegates, with post talk Q&A)
Engaging with Seldom Heard Communities through Arts and Culture, Presentation: National Police Chiefs' Council, Violence against Women and Girls Practice Sharing Event, May 2023
| Academic Dissemination August 2024 This paper discusses how arts-led engagement outside of the police enforcement space can generate emotion and affect, building empathetic relationships and challenge police behaviours. It draws on our evaluation of arts-led engagements by police with communities through Coventry UK City of Culture; our co-creation of arts-led engagement with policing and young people as a means of re-imagining policing; and our current collaboration with creatives and police to challenge perspectives and behaviour around race in policing, as part of the Police Race Action Plan. July 2024 This paper explore the possibilities afforded by arts and creative spaces as sites of radical possibility for a rearticulation of policing, in its broadest sense. We draw on findings from our partnership with the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, in which we use arts-based workshops to gain an understanding of young people's lived experiences of policing-related concepts such as power, freedom, safe spaces and authority. The second phase will see these secondary school pupils working with the Belgrade's producers and current artistic programme to produce artistic outputs which explore and reimagine their own experiences and understandings of policing. March 2024 A day of workshops with creative practitioners and researchers sharing ideas around creative responses to marginalisation, injustice, and social + legal change December 2023 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 forBelgrade Theatre Collaboration. July 2023 This series ofworkshopsbrought 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 June 2023 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 June 2023 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. May 2023 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 2023 We presented our work at thisconferenceon bias and criminal justice in Bologna. April 2023 March 2023 March 2023 February 2023 November 2022 |