scholarly journals Utilising police knowledge and skills: Experiences from police practitioners studying a police specific degree

2021 ◽  
pp. 146135572110640
Author(s):  
Jenny Norman ◽  
Jenny Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Current Debate ◽  
Education Reforms ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Police Education ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Survey Interviews ◽  
Degree Level ◽  
Personal Decision ◽  
Specific Degree

This article presents preliminary findings from a longitudinal study contributing to the current debate about police education and professionalising the police in England and Wales. The findings in this article are taken from a survey administered in 2016 to third-year students enrolled in a policing degree. Surveys were distributed to police officer students in the last year of their degree programme asking for their perceptions of the degree, their organisation's support for their learning and how they felt that learning was utilised in their workplace. Supplementary to the survey, interviews were conducted with the students after their graduation in 2018. The research findings suggest that students perceived the benefits of obtaining a degree-level qualification as fundamentally important to their professional development and personal decision-making at work. Early support initially received for study leave purposes, rarely extended beyond this practical provision. The extent to which police organisations valued the learning from the degree was perceived to be lacking. Senior-ranked students were more likely to be able to use and promote their newly acquired skills and knowledge in the workplace compared with lower-ranked students. Such findings may inform scholars’ and practitioners’ continued evaluation of police education reforms in England and Wales.

Why A Doc With a Dip Doc?

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
Catherine Morley
Keyword(s):  
Nutrition Education ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Documentary Film ◽  
Eating Behaviour ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Time Out ◽  
Power Differentials ◽  
Research Findings

In 2007, when I began studies toward two diplomas, one in textile arts, and one in documentary film this seeming ‘change of focus’ prompted questions from dietetics and research colleagues: Was I changing careers? What did visual arts and film have to do with dietetics and research? In addition to personal reasons for these studies, I wanted ‘time out’ from consulting and research to develop my knowledge and skills in these artforms, and to explore them as means to broaden the reach of research findings. In this article, I discuss the potential for film and visual arts in dietetics practice and education. Arts-based inquiry and practice offer ways to disrupt power differentials, to question what counts as knowledge and whose/what voices ought to count, to invite reflections on and conversations about meanings imbedded in food and in eating behaviour, and to integrate this knowledge into collaborative, client-centred approaches to nutrition education.

Police education and role play: Insights from the literature

2021 ◽  
pp. 0032258X2110315
Author(s):  
Allison Turner
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Teaching Strategies ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Role Play ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Police Education ◽  
Qualification Framework

This article provides a literature review into the utilisation of role play and reflection, as valuable teaching strategies which should be considered for implementation, within the Police Education Qualification Framework. The aim of this article is to challenge the current pedagogical teaching methods utilised as part of the National Policing Curriculum, by highlighting the benefit of a more experiential-based learning strategy, for Professional Policing Degree students, based within England and Wales.

Harassment at Work as Discrimination: The Current Debate in England and Wales

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-114
Author(s):  
Pauline Roberts ◽  
Lucy Vickers
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Sex Discrimination ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Racial Harassment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Victims Of Bullying ◽  
Court Of Appeal

In 1996–97 there were a number of significant decisions which extended the scope of employers' liability for sexual and racial harassment at work, based upon the provisions of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 and the Race Relations Act 1976. This article seeks to analyse the impact of these recent cases. It began by considering the relationship between the concepts of ‘harassment’ and ‘discrimination’ and the problems inherent in using the anti-discrimination legislation to deal with harassment and bullying at work; we then focus on the recently demonstrated ‘purposive’ approach of the Employment Appeal Tribunal and Court of Appeal in interpreting the statutes and consider how this combats the weaknesses identified. Alternative forms of relief will be briefly considered, in particular the recently enacted Protection from Harassment Act 1997. The authors, while welcoming the recent decisions, argue that there are some victims of bullying who remain outside the protection of the existing anti-discrimination legislation (as they do not fall within any of the groups identified for protection), notwithstanding the robust advances of the EAT. We suggest that the Protection from Harassment Act may not completely fill this gap.

The Child’s Guardian – Listening and Giving Weight to Children’s Views

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen James ◽  
David Lane
Keyword(s):  
Child Protection ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Review Panel ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
The Family ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Children’S Views ◽  
Meaningful Relationships ◽  
Insight Into

Both the child protection and public child law systems assume a child-centred approach is at the heart of their work with children. That assumption is based on what are considered child-centred principles, which are enshrined in legislation in England and Wales in the Children Act 1989, mainly the principle of paramountcy of the child’s welfare in Section 1(1) and the principle of no delay in Section 1(2), in relation to the completion of proceedings ( hm Government, 1989). However, comprehensive reviews of both the child protection system (Munro, 2011) and the family justice system (Family Justice Review Panel, 2011), along with research findings (Cappleman et al., 2013) present a picture that challenges this assumption. Increasingly, the focus on the child’s life and welfare is hampered by a lack of time and resources available to professionals such as Guardians to enable them establish a meaningful and trusting relationship with the child in order to gain insight into and an understanding of the child’s world from the child’s perspective. The child appears to be very much on the periphery of a system that lacks real connectedness with the child and their view of their situation and circumstances. Such a level of connectedness can only be achieved by providing children with space and time to develop trust in and meaningful relationships with those whose duty it is to represent their true wishes and feelings and give due weight to the child’s perspective.

Walkable environment and community well-being: a case from the city of Kwun Tong

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Yu
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Objective Standard ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Survey Interviews ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Purpose This study aims to examine the relationship between the walkable environment and community well-being of the older people in Kwun Tong, a district in Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach Face-to-face survey interviews were conducted to collect data about perceived factors and community well-being of people aged 55 or above (N = 257, M = 71.78). Geographic information system was used to obtain geographic data to assess objective factors. Findings The results showed that perceived factors were more critical in explaining community well-being than objective factors. Originality/value This is one of the few research studies to study walkable environment and community well-being in both objective and subjective ways. The findings of this study could help policymakers and urban planners to move beyond the objective standard to better address the subjective environmental needs of older people in designing a walkable environment. The research findings also have implications for other Asian communities with similar environments and cultural backgrounds.

A Study on the Feasibility of Promoting the Functions of Traditional Schools in Line With the Implementation of Smart Schools in Iran

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-24
Author(s):  
Hasani Jafari Fatane ◽  
Khoshneshin Zohreh ◽  
Annamaria Curatola
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Method ◽  
Research Effort ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Traditional Schools ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Ict Implementation ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Iranian Government ◽  
Large Research

This article describes how today's traditional Iranian schools need to be reorganized to comply with the requirements established in the knowledge and communication fields, based on modern societies, because they are part of an increasingly globalised and complex world. Since 2010, this has been important because the Iranian Government required schools to become “smart,” with particular attention given to the knowledge and the skills that come from using modern technology, such as computers and the internet. Because of this there has been a large research effort promoting and monitoring the approach of schools to ICT. In this article, the results of one of the researches carried out in Karaj (the second biggest city in Iran) are reported. This research investigated the availability of ICT structures through a survey on the point of view of teachers and headmasters. The random sampling method regarded 300 teachers and 20 headmasters to whom two sets of questionnaires were given in order to verify and collect their opinions on the different aspects of ICT implementation. The reliability of these questionnaires has been evaluated by Cronbach's alpha (0/87). The research findings have clearly shown that in Karaj the teachers' knowledge and skills of integrating information technology in everyday teaching are at intermediate level, while infrastructures and equipment considered essential for the implementation of smart schools are at a low level.

scholarly journals Governing through vulnerability in austerity England

2019 ◽  
pp. 147737081988015
Author(s):  
Francesca Menichelli
Keyword(s):  
Service Provision ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Community Safety ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Safety Work ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Levels Of Service

Drawing on interviews with practitioners, the article reconstructs how and why vulnerability has become an organizing principle in community safety work in England and Wales. Decreasing crime rates, growing awareness of risk and harm, loss of political salience of volume crime and modifications to the structure of incentives all contributed to making the move away from crime and disorder possible. The article shows how vulnerability is now used to facilitate partnership working to maintain existing levels of service provision, but also to ration the amount of support made available to citizens at a time of austerity. This is potentially problematic and open questions remain on the solidity, orientation and reach of this shift. The article concludes by discussing the research findings in light of their broader implications for European criminology and comparative research.

The 2003 Licensing Act: Alcohol Use and Anti-Social Behaviour in England and Wales

2005 ◽  
Vol 78 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-208
Author(s):  
Barry Loveday
Keyword(s):  
Current Debate ◽  
Night Time ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
British Crime Survey ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Stranger Violence

This article considers the potential impact of the Licensing Act 2003 and the nature of change that may be expected to result from extended opening hours. It looks at recent trends in crime and evidence of the growing significance of alcohol-related offences in England and Wales. It notes that while violent crime as identified by the British Crime Survey continues to fall, there has been a marked increase in ‘stranger violence’ that may be linked to the growth of the night-time economy in many UK towns and cities. The article analyses recent data concerning the use of alcohol by young people and ‘binge drinking’, and it also considers the current debate over the implementation of the Licensing Act, particularly the ability of local residents to influence the determination of extended opening hours. It reviews the role of the local authority as a licensing authority and the potential problem of appeals by licensees against decisions made by the new licensing authority. The article assesses the implications of such appeals in relation to section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and the pervasive influence of the drinks industry in contemporary society.

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