The University of York is advertising for a post-doctoral research fellow on policing and mental health issues. This is a joint appointment across the Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre and the Institute of Mental Health at the university under the leadership of impressive Professors Lina Gega and Adam Crawford.
You can find the advert with full details on the University of York website.
Makes me wish I had a PhD, quite frankly!
I probably need to know more and do a blog about VPRC as academics are now busy working on this territory of policing and mental health following considerable investment to create the centre and it’s badly needed. Much of my criticism and many of my question about initiatives in policing and mental health have been derived from the obvious truth that too many ideas are entirely under-researched and unevaluated and academics who were invited to evaluate street triage around a decade ago often bemoaned not having been involved at the conception stage, which prevented meaningful baseline data being gathered to allow for good quality evaluation.
So this sounds like an interesting and exciting position for someone suitably qualified to go dabbling in my area of interests and make real progress in understand what’s going on.
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