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Guest Blog from Insp Michael Brown: Policing, Mental Health and the Academic Gap

Posted on May 21, 2012 by drjezphillips

I am hugely grateful to Inspector Michael Brown of the West Midlands Police (known as @MentalHealthCop on Twitter) for taking the time to write this excellent piece as a guest blog. I became aware of Michael’s work via Twitter and … Continue reading →

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Tweeting Police and Fear of Crime: How will the research work?

Posted on May 9, 2012 by drjezphillips

 Firstly my sincere thanks again to everyone for helping out with this project. I have had some brilliant support from many members of the police and public who have helped spread the word about it and got people following and ready to … Continue reading →

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Tweeting Police and Fear of Crime: Further update and questions answered.

Posted on April 16, 2012 by drjezphillips

Many thanks to everyone, both police and public, who have helped in publicising this research – it is all much appreciated. Your assistance has meant that the word is slowly getting out about this, and support for the project is … Continue reading →

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The Tweeting Police Project: An update and a plea for help.

Posted on March 21, 2012 by drjezphillips

Firstly, many thanks to all of you for the support that you have shown for this project.  As I wrote recently, the use of social media like Twitter is become more and more prevalent among police, something that is great … Continue reading →

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Why our brains love Twitter: Cognition, Heuristics and Social Media

Posted on February 27, 2012 by drjezphillips

The human brain is undoubtedly an amazing thing. It is capable of organising and processing the almost constant streams of sensory data with which it is faced, whilst simultaneously controlling and maintaining the many functions that our body needs to … Continue reading →

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Tweeting Police and Fear of Crime: An introduction to the proposed research.

Posted on February 23, 2012 by drjezphillips

If you have been kind enough to find this post through a link on Twitter then you will be aware that I am hoping to carry out some research on the use of Twitter by the police and the impact … Continue reading →

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