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In a new podcast 鈥溾��, Professor Jacqueline Hodgson discusses her research on arts-led approaches to police training as part of West Midlands Police's implementation of the Police Race Action Plan. The podcast is created by the Mapping the Arts and Humanities team, and she is joined by Dr Nicole B枚gelein (University of Cologne) and Sophie Marois (University of Toronto). In the contexts of research, courts and policing, the discussion considers the building of vulnerability and empathy through modes of creative practice - how the creation of safe spaces, relatively free from judgment, can open up possibilities for discussion of complex and difficult topics. This is especially powerful with a group like the police, whose training and practice often centre on the suppression of emotion as a form of self-protection. The podcast also considers some of the ethical dimensions of co-creation with those outside academia, in particular, how to ensure the work is not purely extractive but produces shared ownership.

The podcast is accompanied by a highlighting the main themes covered in the conversation with the three researchers, who have been working together and are co-editing a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Creative Research Methods: Creative Methods in Research on Courts and Policing.