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TITEN Neuroscience Informed Trauma Exposure Training

Dr Jess with Cambridge Resilient Research Ltd (directed by Prof Brendan Burchell) is now offering a new, discrete and bespoke trauma resilience service, including presenting, leadership training, high-risk resilience work, trauma management planning, research and evidence-based approaches and incident-specific support...

Author's story

The Marshwood Vale magazine of the South West features a front cover piece on Dr Jess Miller and how she found herself working in trauma resilience. To read a bit more about how the personal meets the professional, honouring the trusted adage "Re-search is Me-search", click here.

BLOG: The Policing Mind one year on

Here Dr Jess talks about how her first book The Policing Mind: Trauma Resilience for a New Era has had impact since 2022: Transforming Society ~ Getting inside the policing mind In doing so, the book as been passed to the Home Secretary in the hope of further change to our police service being more trauma informed and open...

The Lancet featuring our trauma resilience project and trauma impact prevention techniques (TIPT)

We are absolutely delighted to share that our project has featured in an essay by Jules Morgan in The Lancet Psychiatry on 21st March. Here is an extract : "People are only just starting to talk about complex PTSD, but we need to act now, says Jessica Miller (University of Cambridge, UK, and Police Care UK), Principal...

The Casey Review of The Met: our trauma input

We were really pleased to contribute to the Baroness Casey Review of the Met with a view to understanding how trauma exposure and resilience interacts with culture, standards and behaviour. Here is an extract from the full report 21 March 2023: "During the Review we spoke to Dr Jessica Miller, Director of Research at...

Policing Trauma and Surfwell on the BBC: We Are England

Dr Jess joins the amazing Surfwell Team to talk about policing, mental health and the impact of nature and an open mind on trauma resilience. To view the episode trailer, click here

Policing Blog for Global Compassion Coalition

Dr Jess talks openly about the current pressures on the UK police force and how the dynamic of compassion works both ways between policing and the social world we live in. To read the blog and hear more about the fantastic work of this pioneering coalition, click here

Sunday Times article : Special Measures, trauma and policing

processed-7607bc32-902b-4cec-822c-ab29467a0ccd_mfykmuy2.jpeg Article in the Sunday Times featuring our research on working conditions and PTSD in contemporary UK policing, see: What it’s really like to be a police officer: ‘We get called murderers and rapists’ | The Sunday Times Magazine | The Sunday Times (thetimes.co.uk)

#breakthebias article for Transforming Society: coming out

Jess writes honestly for the first time on stigma in her work with the police in academia, and on her own personal experience of gender fluidity. Quite a moment in many ways! Transforming Society ~ Women in academia and practice: Jessica K. Miller

FIRST BOOK "The Policing Mind: Trauma Resilience for a New Era"

SO. Over 10 years of research written up in a practical guide with the odd titter, too. Not much to say, other than if you'd like to read it, please read it! And if you think it works, please share it. Policy Press | The Policing Mind - Developing Trauma Resilience for a New Era, By Jessica K. Miller (...

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Trauma Days (Lima)

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Gut instinct in Emergency Response and in life ‘Going with your gut’ or indeed having ‘a police(man)’s nose is definitely a thing. We say it all the time, whether it be about a dodgy person in a position of perceived power (see previous blog on psychopaths), or whether someone ‘likes-you’-likes-you when you sense a little...

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“One more time with feeling”: Dealing with flashbacks In his film, One More Time With Feeling, singer and songwriter Nick Cave spoke about his experience of losing his young son in a tragic accident and the trauma and grief that lives with him. He allowed me to quote him directly in my book The Policing Mind with something...

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