Trauma Resilience in UK Policing

A project exploring how to better support the brain's ability to process trauma exposure and maintain resilience in contemporary operational policing.

Principal Investigators: Dr Jess Miller and Professor Brendan Burchell

Research Theme: Science and Technology

Funding: The Wates Family Enterprise Trust

Project duration: 2016 - ongoing

Project website:  www.policingtrauma.sociology.cam.ac.uk 

The Trauma Resilience in UK Policing project is sponsored by The Wates Family Enterprise Trust for 2024-2025 (formerly by Police Care UK, 2016-2024) and works in collaboration with the Department of Sociology. 

Together, we are providing practical techniques, training material and evidence-based insight to bring real effective change to trauma management for police officers, staff and their families.

The project was reported on by BBC News, BBC Inside Out, Channel 4 Dispatches and The One Show. It also featured in the national press, including newspapers, digital coverage and radio. The study was selected for the Cambridge Research Evaluation Framework (REF) 2021, and won the Vice Chancellor’s Research Impact and Engagement Awards 2019. 

Trauma Resilience in UK Policing materials and training are still active and publicly available.