This N8 PRP funded conference will bring together experts, scholars and practitioners to explore responses to and understandings of coercive control. The conference will showcase the findings of the N8 funded project, ‘Police Responses to Coercive Control’ and discuss the ongoing development of the ‘coercive control learning tool’, designed to support police officers in practice.

Anticipated schedule for the day:

10.30am: Registration and arrival

11.00-11.15: Conference Opening

11.15-12.00: Keynote: Dame Vera Baird, Police and Crime Commissioner Northumbria

12.00 -12.45: Keynote: Professor Sylvia Walby, OBE

12.45-1.45: Lunch

1.45-2.45: Overview of ‘Police responses to coercive control’ project findings

2.45-3.00: Coffee/ tea break

3.00-4.00: Coercive control ‘learning tool’ showcase and group discussion

4.00-4.15: Closing comments

Please note there are limied spaces for this event, so if we are interested in attending we suggest that you register as soon as possile. If you are no longer able to attend, please get in touch with the conference organisers so that your place can be made available to others.