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Trauma Resilience in UK Policing

 

The project was governed by a Steering Group with representation from sponsors, academia, clinicians, participating forces and national police wellbeing interventions.

About the team...

  • Sponsor, Gill Scott-Moore, Police Care UK Chief Executive
  • National Wellbeing leads from the College of Policing 
  • Clinical expertise in trauma management from Prof. Chris Brewin
  • Chief Constables & Chief Medical Officers from participating UK police forces
  • Academic expertise in neuropsychology and sociology

The project was hosted at the Department of Sociology, with Dr Brendan Burchell as Principle Investigator and Dr Jess Miller as Research Associate. Jess is also Director of Research at Police Care UK and was responsible for the design and day-to-day delivery of the study. We were also fortunate to have Dr Magdalena Soffia from the University of Cambridge as our Post Doctoral Researcher who specialised in quantitative analysis.

 

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Dr Jess Miller

Research Associate - University of Cambridge
Research Fellow - Police Care UK
 

Dr Brendan Burchell

Principle Investigator
University of Cambridge
 
 

Prof Chris Brewin

Research Associate
University College London
 

Dr Magdalena Soffia

Research Associate
University of Cambridge
 

Mary Elliot-Davies

Research Collaborator
Police Federation of England and Wales
 
 
 

Gill Scott-Moore

Sponsor
CEO Police Care UK

Latest news

Author's story

26 January 2024

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

22 June 2023

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)

23 March 2023

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...

More project talk...