Our research aims to promote equity, inclusion, and wellbeing in uniformed public services through transformational change, effective leadership, and trauma-informed practices that empower all.
Our research is underpinned by methods that break down traditional hierarchies. We bring those with lived experience to the heart of our work and develop solutions together.
This project explores the how male and female prison officers (POs) manage their own, co-workers', and inmates' feelings, and the consequences for well-being.
Read more about the emotional inequities project
This project explores experiences of psychological safety within UK Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) in order to inform policy, practice, and research.
Read more about the psychological safety in HEMS project
This project seeks to transform Avon and Somerset Police’s response to and investigation of domestic abuse.
Read more about Project Bright Light
This project seeks to provide an evidence base for the new Serious Sexual Assault Investigators' Programme (SSAIDP).
Read more about the SSAIDP evaluation
Drawing on learning from the Veteran and Families Institute for Military Social Research (VFI), the Centre for Military Women's Research (CMWR), and the International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute (IPPPRI), in January 2024 ARU secured its largest-ever research grant of £11,305,900, to develop CEEUPS.
This included £1 million for a new social sciences research laboratory at our Chelmsford campus to enable the testing of new innovative and creative methods that challenge traditional relationships between researchers and the researched.
Funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), CEEUPS collaborates with public services such as police, fire, ambulance, paramedics, military, and prison services to address negative workplace behaviours, cultivate inclusive cultures, and build public trust.
We're proud to be Times Higher Education University of the Year 2023, and to have won the Queen's Anniversary Prize in 2021, in recognition of the difference we make in our communities and beyond. We also celebrated our best-ever performance in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021).