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.
Find out more about our current projects. Project Bright Light is focused on improving investigations into domestic abuse, and the Exploratory Parallel Group is exploring the new Serious Sexual Assault Investigators Programme.
Project Bright Light Exploratory Parallel Group
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).