What emerging technologies, such as wearables, can help identify and enable earlier interventions for struggling workforce members before they reach crisis point, for example, through the analysis of psychophysiological data?

Background

"Personal safety is the ability to protect policing’s workforce and members of the public.

We believe science and technology is central to policing’s efforts to identify and address wellbeing concerns, including by mitigating trauma in the first place. We wish to take advantage of emerging technologies that can help identify people who may be struggling, enabling earlier interventions. We recognise that the success of these innovations is dependent on workforce acceptance and engagement, and we seek to learn what innovations staff would use and find supportive. We are also interested in technologies that can mitigate the trauma our staff experience by the nature of their work. "

Next steps

"We welcome your engagement with our ARIs in the following ways:
• If you have evidence that completely or partly supports or answers one of our ARIs, we invite you to share that with us. For any ongoing research relevant to policing and crime reduction, we encourage you to register your research on the College of Policing’s research projects map, which has been designed to promote collaboration and support requests for participants.
• If you are, or plan to be, carrying out research that relates to one of our ARIs, we’d like to hear about it. While we cannot respond to speculative approaches for research funding, we will where possible act to support your ambitions, including finding you policing partners where possible.
• If you are submitting a funding or grant application that aligns with one of our ARIs, we hope that referencing policing’s ARIs will help to strengthen your case for the possible public impact of the research.
• We will use the ARI document to structure our academic engagement, prioritise events and build new connections with external partners. We will be using our ARIs in our engagement with UKRI, and we will publish any opportunities for funding via our website https://science.police.uk/
Please send any correspondence and questions to csa@npcc.police.uk, including ‘ARI’ in the subject heading."

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Policing Areas of Research Interest

Related UKRI funded projects


  • CoreTech - Encouraging and enabling self-management of a range of physical and mental health conditions with an innovative wearable device

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    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: FC LABORATORIES LTD

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on worker wellbeing and mental health, utilizing wearables to predict and prevent errors, which aligns with the question's goal of enabling earlier interventions for struggling workforce members.

  • spacebands - workplace wellbeing & safety technology

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    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: SPACEBANDS LTD

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on workplace safety technology with wearables, which partially aligns with the question's goal of enabling earlier interventions for struggling workforce members.

  • FCLabs - Using wearable technology to improve awareness and take-up of OHS

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    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: FC LABORATORIES LTD

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on using wearable technology to track and predict fluctuations in cognitive performance and risk factors, enabling earlier interventions for struggling workforce members.

  • Online Portal and Series of Mental Health in the Workplace Conferences for Front Line and NHS Workers Post-COVID 19

    The 1st Big, Bold Mental Health Event: COVID-19 Workforce 2021 is going to be a new branded conference and online community– launched to bring together all those focussed mental health during COVID-19 an opportunity for ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: SANDBOX SUMMITS LIMITED

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project discusses mental health in the workplace post-COVID-19 and the use of technology, including AI and machine learning, to support workers, which partially addresses the question.

  • Digital health resource to support the mental health and resilience of Employers, Employees and families during and following Covid19

    Covid19 crisis has created many challenges for employers and employees. For employees now home-based, creating a space to work in a sometimes-chaotic home is proving difficult for many. Family relationships are stretche...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: TAKETEN LTD

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on a stress control app to support mental health during and following COVID-19, which partially addresses the question.

  • Wearable Technologies - Scaleup/Funding Of Existing Solution For Ensuring Social Distancing On Industrial Work Sites To Enable Them To Stay Open

    Short video showing the solution in action -[https://vimeo.com/422508431][0] Problem: Inability to demonstrably enforce social distancing amongst industrial workers is forcing economy to be shut down and putting at risk...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: WEARABLE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED

  • Tended Commercial

    "Tended is a personal safety technology start-up which develops intelligent systems and accident detection wearables to improve the safety of lone workers. The Tended Commercial project is being developed to support...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: TENDED LTD

  • eMoodie | Next Generation Digital Mental Health for the Modern Workforce | UK

    Work-related mental health difficulties can have devastating consequences on self-efficacy, disrupt relationships at work, impair job performance and result in burnout-related sick days. In 2021, almost 18 million workin...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: EMOODIE LIMITED

  • SOMA Analytics

    “Britons work some of the longest hours in Europe, which is linked to stress, sleep problems, reduced productivity and sick leave.” (The Guardian, July 2014). The World Health Organisation has predicted that stress will ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: SOMA ANALYTICS UK

  • The Airwave Health Monitoring Study (AHMS). An Occupational Cohort Study of the British Police Forces.

    Police officers are among one of the occupational groups presenting with higher rates of ill health compared to other workers and are exposed to a wide range of chemical, physical and psychosocial risk factors that can a...

    Funded by: MRC

    Lead research organisation: Imperial College London