About SSI
With a membership of over 40 UoH staff and post-graduate researchers, the SSI serves to bring together knowledge, skills, methodologies and expertise from diverse disciplines such as forensic science, architecture, film making, product design, digital forensics, forensic podiatry, education, IT and engineering with disciplines more traditionally associated with a crime focus such as criminology, psychology, sociology and law.
SSI focuses on four broad themes which reflect current members’ research. These are:
The SSI has a new steering group which includes at least two representatives from each of the University's six schools. We also have an external advisory group. We are in the process of setting up a regional advisory practitioners’ group to oversee the work SSI members do to support community safety, security and crime prevention across West Yorkshire.
We are currently reenergising SSI. The global pandemic forced the institute to grind to a halt and we had to cancel many of SSI’s activities and collaborative events. But the future looks bright as plans are being implemented to revive opportunities for researchers and practitioners in crime and justice to come together to develop innovative approaches to real-world crime, policing, community safety and security challenges. We have various activities planned for 2022."
Professor Jason Roach, who took on the role of Director of SSI in November 2021, speaking early in 2022
The Secure Societies Institute is built on the premise of sharing the knowledge we already have, but also adding value to produce something exciting, innovative and truly inter-disciplinary, through collaboration.
The research we develop will continue to be practitioner-led, ensuring that solutions are directly influenced by the needs of those working to reduce crime and terrorist threats and the communities they serve, in order to build safer and stronger communities.
Dr Rosie Campbell OBE joined the Institute as a Senior Research Fellow in January 2022 to work with the SSI Director, Deputy Director Dr Yun Gao, SSI steering group, all our members and our external advisors and stakeholders to develop SSI.
I’m very pleased to be able to join SSI at this time, when we are reviewing and refreshing our work. It’s stimulating to be able to collaborate with other academics from many disciplines, external practitioners and people in wider communities, to develop innovative approaches to improving community safety. I feel we have a real opportunity to contribute to supporting practitioners and communities to address both emergent and longstanding community safety issues, some of which have become further heightened, or more visible, during the pandemic; for example domestic abuse, violence against women and the safety and policing of black and other minoritized communities."
Dr Rosie Campbell OBE
We welcome new members from staff and post graduate students across the University. We also welcome external organisations who want to become involved in our work. If you are interested in becoming a member of SSI or are interested in any aspect of our work please contact: Professor Jason Roach (J.Roach@hud.ac.uk) or Dr Rosie Campbell (R.Campbell@hud.ac.uk).
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