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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

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

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)

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

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 (bristoluniversitypress.co.uk)

Jess Miller is taking the Trauma Resiliene in UK Policing project to the fantastic Emergency Responders programme of work being undertaken by The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Specialising in trauma support, Jess will be contributing to new provision to be unveiled later this year, so watch this space!For more informaion about the work, visit: htt…

In August, Dr Jess Miller caught up with Professor Neil Greenberg to talk about how easing in restrictions brings responsibility back to organisations and individuals to consider Covid resilience and how this also plays out in trauma management, especially in the Emergency Response sector. The three components of peer support, trauma-informed leade…

Our research with Mary Elliott-Davies, one of PFEW’s leading Research practitioners,  into the effects of trauma exposure on police officers, including that of incidents specific to the Covid-19 pandemic, featured at annual the DFP conference for the British Psychological Society’s Division of Forensic Psychology (DFP) this year.  The event, held o…

Police Care UK and the PFEW have worked with the University of Cambridge to produce the first UK Police Traumatic Events Checklist (PTEC) designed to represent the most frequently reported "worst jobs" which officers and staff experience in the service. The tool is being congitively tested in 2021 to demonstrate its value in use in non-clincal (ope…

In March, Jess was lucky enough to spend some quality time with one of her trauma resilience guru's, Prof Neil Greenberg, catching up with the latest research on all things TRiM, TIPT, reseilience and peer support. The best take home message is that resilience is  about knowing when to ask for help and that, as with so many key workers, we may not …

For everyone who has supported the work of the Trauma Resilience in UK Policing project with Police Care UK, this is for you too, courtesy of Mind. A lovely 6 minutes of positivity (click here to hear it from me to you at 5m33 secs ; ) 

The full peer-reviewed article setting the UK's first ever Police PTSD and CPTSD prevalence rates (at 12% and 8%, equating to one in five with any form of PTSD) is published in Psychological Medicine and available here, now.

"The most important thing is to allow the police to talk..and we need to make the effort to listen. That’s the only way we’re going to improve.”In this article from Mental Health at Work, Dr Jess Miller talks to Beckett Frith about the challenges faced by the police as public sympathy wanes due to the lockdown and the Black Lives Matter protests, a…

Jessica Brown's 'Stories To Sit With' article on police trauma exposure is worth a read, narrating experiences of life on the job and the reality of lessons that need to be learned in trauma exposure management. The article also features the Trauma Resilience in UK Policing project with Police Care UK and the Department of Sociology.

Police officers and staff are facing new challenges in unprecedented conditions during the pandemic. Repeated exposure to sudden deaths, lack of time to process incidents before the next job and anxiety over bringing the virus back into the home are key issues on which the Police Federation of England & Wales want to offer solidarity. Jess and Che …