Resources: what's new for 2025
Academic publications in date order include:
A paper exploring genetics and trauma from 2014 which sets out the intention for trauma processing research to focus on boosting hippocampal processing.
A paper describing the implications of the BDNF gene for PTSD from 2017 provides some further evidence suggesting links between genes, the hippocampus and the Policing Brain.
In 2016 we published a report on the impact of trauma on situational awareness in Police Professional.
This was followed by the full academic publication in 2017 providing further evidence on the known impact of trauma on navigation.
In 2019 we published the findings from our trauma processing feasibility study (randomised controlled trial design) with Greater Manchester Police, demonstrating the techniques to be effective in increasing feelings of ease and safety, improving recall, doing no harm and being operationally viable within a police training environment.
Our 2021 paper on PTSD prevalence in UK policing reports findings from the Policing: The Job & The Life Survey (2018) and in 2022 we published a response to a Plos One article citing this work here.
In 2022, we published a new paper on job quality, working conditions and post-traumatic stress in the UK Police with the Oxford University Press in Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, called 'The Association Between Job Quality and the incidence of PTSD amongst Police Personnel
The 2022 book "The Policing Mind: Trauma Resilience for a New Era" is available here
In 2023 we published the Police Traumatic Events Checklist and the peer reviewed paper is here
Summer 2025 sees the launch of a book co-authored by Dr Jess on trauma resilience with the autobiography of Ash Alexander-Cooper, Mindful Soldier
Other resources include:
Dr Jess Miller with Prof Chris Brewin (UCL) co-authored with others a short guidance document for the College of Policing on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Policing.
Presentations generated during the Trauma Resilience in UK Policing project are often available online from conference organisers. Click on the following link to access the presentation for the Canterbury Centre for Policing Research (CCPR) Annual Conference 2018: 'Bringing neuroscience research into operational policing'.
A blog from 2018 "Trauma Processing in Operational Policing May Be Closer Than You Think" describes the aspirations of the Trauma Resilience in UK Policing project for the police initiative Oscar Kilo.
TV and Media Resources also include C4 Dispatches, BBC news coverage
Westminster resources include the Select Committee May 2024 as well as numerous questions raised in the House of Commons