Professor Jill Jameson is Professor of Education and Chair for Leadership in Education Research in the Faculty of Education, Health and Human Sciences and Institute for Lifecourse Development (ILD) and Centre for Professional Workforce Development.
Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals:
Jill's work supports SDG's 4 - Quality Education, 10 - Reduced Inequalities, 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
Improved BAME community police engagement
Prof Jill Jameson’s research on transformative education has led to co-creation of knowledge-sharing processes to nurture improved community-police engagement through dialogic conflict resolution with marginalised BAME young people.
In over 20 years of close partnership with the local charity Second Wave Youth Arts, Prof. Jameson’s research empowered emerging leadership capabilities of marginalised young people and improved police and youth-worker professional practices. The approach involved gradually increasing mutual respect and understanding, which results in meta-perceptual and behavioural changes in community-police relationships. The development of increased trust between young people and police contributed to:
- neighbourhood safety
- leadership development
- de-escalation in encounters between police and young people
- reduced criminalisation of young people.
Prof Jill Jameson continues to collaborate with Second Wave and the Metropolitan Police, further developing this model of trust for community-police engagement with young people and providing officer training. Policy recommendations from Prof Jill Jameson to the House of Lords Select Committee on Public Services are to: (1) provide securely funded, long-term youth education services; (2) develop safe, trustworthy creative spaces in young people’s own communities; (3) Support long-term multi-stakeholder community-public sector partnerships for the protection of young people, based on the practical model of the community of practice to develop trust and leadership and protect vulnerable children in safer neighbourhoods.
