Charlotte Watkinson-Miley

Charlotte Watkinson-Miley is a Senior Lecturer in the Liverpool Centre for Advanced Policing Studies.

Charlotte began her time at LJMU as a Research Fellow on a joint College of Policing and HEFCE funded Police Knowledge Partnership between LJMU, the Office of the Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner and Merseyside Police (November 2015 - April 2017). The project involved a mixture of LJMU Research Fellows and Seconded Officers (working at LJMU at Advanced Practitioners) from Merseyside Police. Together the team delivered formal research training and supervision to cohorts of police officers and police staff grouped around the defined priority themes of hate crime, child sexual exploitation, effective crime prevention, and the challenges of cyber-crime/security/surveillance. The Police Knowledge Fund project was underpinned throughout by the ambition to promote officer engagement with, and implementation of, evidence-based practice.

Following the completion of the Police Knowledge Fund Project, Charlotte gained a role as a Practitioner Fellow, given previous professional experience of working for the Merseyside Police and Crime Commissioner. Charlotte is now the programme leader for Professional Policing Programme.

Charlottes research focus is Evidence Based Policing and problem solving, which can support various policing areas. Charlotte has submitted her PhD which is focused on exploring police-academic partnerships, exploring the challenges and opportunities of collaborative working between academia and policing. Charlotte has firsthand experience of working in partnership with policing, establishing joint working for research purposes. The thesis explores the differences between the policing and academic spheres, which arguably require different working approaches. The research explores a new ‘pracademic’ space where policing practitioners and academics can successfully collaborate.

Charlotte has also researched Police culture, particularly exploring degree apprentice officers who are at different stages of their apprenticeship to explore how they believe their degree informs and supports them fulfilling their role as a police officer. Charlotte is also supporting research projects exploring police officer mental health and wellbeing.

Degrees

2014, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, MA Criminal Justice
2013, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, BA (with first class honours) Criminology and Sociology

Certifications

2017, Higher Education Academy, Fellow

Academic appointments

Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University, 2024 - present
Practitioner Fellow, Liverpool John Moores University, 2018 - present
Research Fellow, Liverpool John Moores University, 2016 - present