Health, wellbeing and resilience

Below you will find our most recent research projects from 2020 onwards.

Live projects

• 4.12 Understanding unmet support needs among victims of crime in Scotland. This project aims to produce practical, evidence-informed typology of victim support needs and provide actionable recommendations to help Victim Support Scotland strengthen services, target resources effectively, and ensure that no victim's needs go unrecognised or unsupported.
• 4.11 Navigating maternity journeys: Collaboratively investigating challenges and identifying barriers for women of colour in UK police forces. This research aims to address these issues by exploring the maternity journeys of women of colour in UK police forces.
• 4.10 Evaluating and enhancing support mechanisms for baby loss: A model or nationwide implementation. This research aims to evaluate the effectiveness and reach of the Baby Loss Support Network and the training provided by the national baby loss charity SANDS.

Completed projects

• 4.09 Are forces past their 'due date'? The impact of a mother's experience during pregnancy and returning to the workplace after a period of maternity leave. This research seeks to join up the actual experiences of both officers and staff who have been pregnant and had a period of maternity leave.
• 4.08 Examining decision-making on the use of evidence-led prosecutions: including their effect on victims' satisfaction levels and subsequent re-engagement with the criminal justice system. This project seeks to address the current gap in UK research by understanding how and when ELPs are used, and importantly, how this is experienced by victims.
• 4.07 Investigating police family wellbeing and support needs UK. This study will address the lack of UK research on policing families.
• 4.06 Building resilience: Co-designing an online rainbow toolkit for public health systems to promote wellbeing and resilience in LGBTQ+ youth (The PRIDE project). A pressing public health challenge is addressing the adverse effects of the social violence LGBTQ+ adolescents experience on a day-to-day basis in the UK.

Archived projects

Below you will find our archived projects that were conducted from 2014-2019.

• 4.05 Games for health and mHealth apps for police and blue light personnel: A scoping review. This project will undertake an in-depth scoping review to ascertain what exisiting literature is available relating to G4H, and mHealth Apps aimed at emergency and Blue Light service providers associated to health and wellbeing.
• 4.04 Cognitive impact of circadian misalignment experienced by UK police officers. The project intends to evaluate if shift working behavior can impact 4 well-defined aspects of cognitive performance.
• 4.02 Police wellbeing charities. Understanding the types of wellbeing interventions and mechanisms by which charities support policing personnel
• 4.01 Assessing the health, wellbeing and welfare of the first responders community in the UK. Reviewing the current landscape of on-going research projects pertaining to the mental health, well-being and welfare of First Responders and their families.