Conferences

This second annual conference of the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre provides an opportunity for academics, practitioners, policy makers and communities to work together to share ideas and forge plans for tangibly improving the policies, systems and processes which impact upon people considered vulnerable, reducing harm in their interactions with policing and related services.

There will be two keynote speaker sessions, a plenary policy panel, and over 15 workshop sessions on a range of topics including the future of neighbourhood policing, women’s safety in public spaces, improving the police and policy response to modern slavery, preventing harm among vulnerable people, and the use of diversion for adults with vulnerabilities, among many others.

For full information about the conference please visit vulnerabilitypolicing.org.uk

Delegates can book overnight accommodation for one or two nights at pre-negotiated rates at a variety of central Leeds hotels via the link below. Please note delegate fees do not include accommodation.

CDS Postgraduate Conference 2025: “Disability within Environments: Disability Studies Perspectives”.

This conference will focus on how disability operates within different environments; how disabled people are affected in these different environments and how environments might be reshaped and reimagined to create more sustainable, just, and inclusive futures. The conference will run from 9:30 to 16:00 before concluding with a post-conference social.

9:30 – 16:00 BST, Wednesday 17^th September 2025.

Michael Sadler Building (rooms LG15, LG16, and LG17), University of Leeds and via Zoom.