Working together:Working together:University of Nottingham, Police, Police & Crime University of Nottingham, Police, Police & Crime

Commissioners and CommunitiesCommissioners and Communities

Liz LesquereuxKnowledge Exchange Manager for Social Sciences

Why Nottingham?Why Nottingham?• Ranked in UK Top 10 and World Top 100

universities (SJTU Rankings)• Globally – one of the world’s top 1%• Turnover - £582m in 2012/13• 3 Campuses in UK, China & Malaysia• Faculties - Arts, Engineering, Medicine &

Health Sciences, Science, Social Sciences• 43,000 students (34,000 in Nottingham, UK)• Over 7,000 staff in the UK including 3,200

academic/research• Research portfolio over £400m – 57% with

business

Research, Evidence & ExpertiseResearch, Evidence & Expertise

CriminologyCriminology

Vulnerable Vulnerable adults and adults and

childrenchildren

IntelligenceIntelligenceExtremismExtremism

Road TrafficRoad TrafficAccidentsAccidents

GovernanceGovernanceOffendersOffenders

Mental Mental HealthHealth

Supporting Supporting the Police the Police

at workat work

WitnessesWitnesses

CommunityCommunityCohesionCohesionAlcoholAlcohol

Expertise:Theoretical Criminology; Deviance Theory: Social Action & ReactionPenology; Philosophy & Practice; Victimology & Crime; Crime & Social Dimensions; Crimes Of The Powerful; Sex Crime; Female Prisoners; Criminal Justice System Staff; Crime & Mental Illness; Offender Health

CriminologyCriminology

Prof Bill Dixon arrives July 2014 to leadCriminology MASocio-legal and Criminological Research MA

Governance

Expertise:Local governance and local partnerships (especially in the context of austerity); Formation of the institution of the PCC; Evolving relationships with Police and Crime Panels, local authorities and police forces; Public engagement; Children’s safeguarding; Social inclusion partnerships and community action.

Prof Vivien LowndesDeveloping joint PhD with Nottinghamshire Police Commissioner to look at effectiveness of PCCs

PCC-commissionedresearch “Exploring andImproving BME Policing Experiences”.

Prof Cecile Wright

Immigration and citizenship, especially Chinese integration.

Prof Bin WuCommunityCohesion

Developing campus-based victim support service in association with Victim Support Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

Melanie Futer MBE

Student Victims

OffendersDr Isabel Gois ‘ME-THINKING PROGRAMME’Using philosophy to motivate young offenders to change

Expertise:Risk and protective factors that influence the development of criminal behaviour and anti-social personality disorders and the implications for prevention of crime and police work; Assessment and treatment of juvenile and adult domestic violent offenders and sex offenders; Self harm, suicide, substance misuse, bullying, knife crime, violent conduct, arson/pyromania

Prof Kevin Browne,Director

Centre for Forensic and Family Psychology

Extremism

Expertise:Right-wing extremist activists; Right-wing extremist violence and populist extremism across Europe; Non-military security; Transatlantic counter terrorism; Religious extremism; Rights of minority cultures

Dr Matthew GoodwinAssociate Professor of Politics http://extremisproject.org/about/

Centre for Well-Being, Health and Social Care

Identities, Citizenship, Equalities and Migration Centre

Prof Harry Ferguson - Professor of Social Work

Expertise:Trafficking and migration; Sex workers and human rights; Rape and sex trafficking; Sexual Offences reform; Prevention of abuse of adults and children with learning disabilities (and in particular how people with learning disabilities are police witnesses); Young people with learning disabilities who sexually harm others; Evaluation of interventions for abusive fathers; Children’s safeguarding; Early Intervention and Child Protection; Cyber-bullying

Vulnerable Adults and

Children

Prof Vanessa MunroAdvisor to Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights - Human trafficking

Expertise:•The Science of Proof•Evaluation of Pre-Trial Witness Interviews•Interviewing prosecution witnesses•Prosecutors’ assessments of evidence and witness credibility•Sexual offences, evidential sufficiency and mentally disordered complaint

Witnesses

Prof Paul RobertsThe Science of Proof: Forensic Science Evidence in English Criminal Trials

International Criminal Justice Unit

Mental Health

Expertise:•Personality disorder•Neurobiology of antisocial personality disorders and social cognition, •Treatment of personality disorders and comparison between service delivery in different European countries•Administration of forensic risk assessment instruments (PCL-R, HCR-20, SVR-20), assessment of personality disorder (IPDE), and the assessment of intelligence (WASI, WAIS-IV, Wechsler Memory Scale)•Psychopathy and behaviour in secure settings

Expertise•Assessment and treatment of alcohol-related aggression and violence•Alcohol-related violence•Offender treatment•Brief interventions, e.g. alcohol arrest; diversion. •Treatment evaluations•Treatment programmes

Alcohol

Prof Mary McMurranProfessor of Personality Disorder Research

COVAID – Control of Violence for Angry Impulsive Drinkers

Accredited evidence-based intervention aimed at reducing alcohol-related violence.

£40 million digital economy research

Hub

Expertise:Geospatial intelligence; Crowd-sourcing / location-based data capture from mobile devices and the web; Spatial data infrastructures; Open source mapping and geographic information systems (GIS); Natural Language Processing and Text Mining; Information retrieval and web search; Named entity identification and relation extraction, text categorisation and clustering; Sentiment analysis and opinion mining on social media networks; Automated scheduling, self-validating documents, face recognition, fingerprint validation; Big data; Personal data safety; Forensics and fingerprinting; Police use of technology

Intelligence

Prof Mike JacksonProfessor of Geospatial Science Member of ACPO Geospatial Information Board

Road Traffic Accidents

Nottingham Integrated Transport and Environment Simulation (NITES)-provides the most comprehensive testing environment for behavioural transport research in the UK-combines 2 separate simulation systems with an on-road testing vehicle and a variety of video-based testing platforms-suite of standardized tests -variety of recording and analysis tools for measuring every aspect of human behaviour

Current research:ARU - Accident Research Unit - are studying hazard perception and driving in individuals with Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Supporting the Police

at work

Dr David Murphy awarded an ‘ACPO Certificate of Recognition’ for assisting and providing support for over 10,000 police officers and staff following traumatic incidents.

Centre for Trauma, Resilienc

e and Growth

Research grants - Dr Jonathan Houdmont:

2014 - Psychosocial risk assessment. Nottinghamshire Police Federation and Nottinghamshire Police. 2014Stress-related working conditions, burnout, and performance among police custody officers. Sergeants' Central Committee of the Police Federation of England and Wales. 2012-2014.2013 - Psychosocial risk assessment: West Midlands Police. West Midlands Police Federation. 2013Police officers' work-related stress: Partners' views on implications for wellbeing and home life. West Midlands Police Federation. 20132012 - Psychosocial risk assessment: West Midlands Police. West Midlands Police Federation. 2012

Workplace Health and Wellbeing Programme MSc

Distance e-Learning

Postgraduate CoursesPostgraduate Courses• Criminology MA• Forensic Psychology DForenPsy – Full Programme

• Criminal Justice LLM • Socio-legal and Criminological Research MA• Human Rights Law LLM• International Security and Terrorism MA• Trauma Studies MA• Geospatial intelligence MSc – Research-based

• Computer Science Msc – includes artificial intelligence

• Global Citizenship, Rights and Identities MA• International Criminal Justice and Armed Conflict LLM• Bioengineering: The Digital Body Msc - includes modelling of the human body in crash situations

CPD and Executive EducationCPD and Executive Education• Broad range of open-enrolment

CPD courses • Combining world-leading research

with world-class teaching• Opportunity to create bespoke

courses

Tailored MBA and bespoke CPD Tailored MBA and bespoke CPD opportunitiesopportunities

“ The School has proven to be an effective partner. We worked very closely with them to create a programme focused on the company’s key strategic challenges and therefore of immediate relevance and value. Without doubt the programme has had a real influence on how senior leaders now think about and manage our business.”

Stephen Lehane, Group HR DirectorAlliance Boots

Future opportunitiesFuture opportunities• Bespoke CPD courses• Consultancy• Contract Research• KTP – Knowledge Transfer Partnerships• Evaluations• Research into Practice• Partnering for research collaborations• Postgraduate Studentships

Contact detailsContact details

Liz LesquereuxKnowledge Exchange Manager for Social Sciences

liz.lesquereux@nottingham.ac.uk

0115 748478107540050587