# ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre

**Source**: https://www.york.ac.uk/business-society/research/vulnerability-policing-futures-research-centre/
**Parent**: https://www.york.ac.uk/about/departments/academic/

The Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre aims to reshape how the police and other organisations work together in order to reduce harm among vulnerable people in society.

The police have always dealt with vulnerable people but increasingly they have been drawn into policing complex problems that they cannot solve on their own, such as modern slavery, county lines drug networks, mental health, online child sexual victimisation, and domestic abuse.

These problems have been made much worse by austerity, with the police having to fill gaps left by underfunded public services and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

Our research explores how vulnerabilities are produced, exacerbated and mitigated by policing, and how the police and other services can be best used to prevent and reduce vulnerabilities.

[Find out more](https://vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/)

## Contact us

**Professor Kate Brown**

- [kate.brown@york.ac.uk](mailto:kate.brown@york.ac.uk
  				)
- [+44 (0)1904 321 241](tel:+441904 321 241
  				)

**Professor Adam Crawford**

- [A.Crawford@york.ac.uk](mailto:A.Crawford@york.ac.uk)
- [+44 (0)1904 325802](tel:+441904 325802)

- [vulnerabilitypolicing@york.ac.uk](mailto:vulnerabilitypolicing@york.ac.uk)

## Reshaping the future of policing vulnerabilities

<https://youtu.be/2KJkdXgF6KE?feature=shared>

## Partners

[A long-term research programme](https://esrc.ukri.org/)

funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

[A partnership led by the Universities of York and Leeds](https://vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/people/)

working with ten other universities and 38 external partners

## Projects

The Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre works on multiple projects across our three research work strands, combining data science with qualitative insights.

- [Place-based research](https://vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/our-research-projects/#:~:text=Place%2Dbased%20research)
- [Problem-oriented research](https://vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/our-research-projects/#:~:text=Problem%2Doriented%20research)
- [Public engagement](https://vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/our-research-projects/#:~:text=routine%20police%20work-,Public%20engagement,-This%20research%20examines)

## Who we are

The ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre brings together an interdisciplinary team of 23 co-investigators from across institutions across the world, as well as 38 police, non-governmental organisations, local and national government partners.

Jointly led from the Universities of York and Leeds by Co-Directors [Professor Kate Brown](https://www.york.ac.uk/business-society/people/kate-brown/) and [Professor Adam Crawford](https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/staff/187/professor-adam-crawford), the team includes Deputy Directors [Dr Dan Birks](https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/staff/261/dr-daniel-birks) (University of Leeds) and [Professor Charlie Lloyd](https://www.york.ac.uk/business-society/people/charlie-lloyd/) (University of York), as well as eight post-doctoral researchers, and a professional support team of three based across the two institutions.

## Opportunities

There are several ways that researchers, students, practitioners and policy-makers can work with the Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre.

### [Early Career Researcher Development Fund](https://vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/early-career-researcher-development-fund/)

Providing research grants of up to £25,000 for Early Career Researchers to lead co-produced projects that align with the Centre’s programme of work, values and principles.

### [Translational Fellowships](https://vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/translational-fellowships)

Enabling practitioners and policy makers to undertake research that addresses particular vulnerability and policing problems or solutions in their work.

### [PhD Network](https://vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/phd-network/)

Bringing together a community of PhD students across multiple disciplines who focus on the intersection of vulnerability and policing.

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Twitter

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Youtube

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[Watch our videos](https://www.youtube.com/@vulnerabilitypolicing/featured)

LinkedIn

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## Contact us

**Professor Kate Brown**

- [kate.brown@york.ac.uk](mailto:kate.brown@york.ac.uk
  		)
- [+44 (0)1904 321 241](tel:+441904 321 241
  		)

**Professor Adam Crawford**

- [A.Crawford@york.ac.uk](mailto:A.Crawford@york.ac.uk)
- [+44 (0)1904 325802](tel:+441904 325802)

- [vulnerabilitypolicing@york.ac.uk](mailto:vulnerabilitypolicing@york.ac.uk)