Police Communication, Trust, and Public Engagement: Research Meets Practice

Wednesday, 28 January 2026

Frederick Douglass Centre Room 1.17

Workshop programme:

09:45 – 10:00 Arrival and coffee

10:00 – 10:10 Welcome and introduction (Diego Zambiasi, NUBS)

10:10 – 10:40 Project Summary Report (Melissa Beckett, NUBS)

10:40 – 11:00 Discussion

11:00 – 11:15 Northumbria Police: Current Priorities and Ongoing Work (Neil Preston, Northumbria Police)

11:15 – 11:30 Discussion

11:45 – 12:45 Lunch

12:45 – 13:45 Cocaine goes Bananas: Global Spillovers from an Illicit Supply
Shock (Gianmarco Daniele, University of Milan)

13:45 – 14:00 Coffee break

14:00 – 15:00 Breaking Negative Narratives: Long-Term Social Progress and
Trust in Institutions (Andrea Martinangeli, Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas)

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 – 15:45 The Confidence Pill: The Causal Effect of Exposure to Police
Social Media (Till Weber, NUBS)

15:45 – 16:00 Concluding remarks

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