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We’re thrilled to celebrate our researchers’ success at the 2024 Research Impact and Engagement Awards! 🏆 👏 Dr Anna Barker's team won the Mature Policy Impact Award 👏 Laura Bainbridge team won the Emerging Policy Impact Award Read more: tinyurl.com/3caanses

Last week, the University celebrated the 2024 Research Impact and Engagement Awards 🏆 The event brought together researchers and support teams from across the University of Leeds alongside partners including West Yorkshire Police, the NHS, Leeds City Museums, and more.

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Read one of our latest blogs by our Associated Postgraduate Researcher Sat Kartar Kaur Chandan, who reflects on themes from the Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre inaugural conference “Reshaping the relationship between vulnerability and policing” vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/reshaping-vuln…

Published today, a new Child of the North Centre for Young Lives report coordinated by Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre researchers argues for a whole-child approach to childhood vulnerability that addresses children’s underlying vulnerabilities and disadvantages vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/news/new-repor…

⌛️ There’s 6 weeks left to apply for our Early Career Researcher Development Fund. Grants of up to £25k are available for ECRs to lead projects that tackle current and emerging challenges related to vulnerability and policing. Find out more 👇 vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk/early-career-r…

Chuffed to be attending the CEP Electronic Monitoring conference in Cascais. The emerging technologies are incredible. The next gen of tags promise to be multi-functional while at the same time being smaller and lighter than those being deployed across Europe at the moment

Check out the latest @PolicyLeeds signpost for a roundup of the excellent policy-facing work and achievements of colleagues across University of Leeds — including by our Dr Or Brook, Laura Bainbridge, Dr Anna Barker and Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre 👏 Centre for Business Law and Practice @CCJSLeeds Law & Social Justice

An early start this morning! I’m heading to Merseyside to contribute to a ‘cuckooing’ roundtable event with the Home Office. I’m looking forward to sharing insights from my research, but also hearing more about the promising practice that is emerging across England and Wales 👍🏻

“maybe I’ll do some writing between christmas and new year” Between christmas and new year:

Offering a potential victim something that they need or want is a key tactic of county lines recruiters. The relationship is one of exchange and exploitation - we’ll give you X, if you do Y. Money, drugs, designer clothes … now lip fillers and Botox. independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…

Our Co-Investigator Laura Bainbridge was on BBC Morning Live today talking about approaches to policing county lines. Watch the segment from 15:33 and Dr Bainbridge from 20:17 below 👇 bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

Ah my TV debut! Thank you to BBC Morning Live for inviting me to participate in this short segment on County Lines and child exploitation 👍🏻

Second attempt 🤞🏻