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Dr Leanne Savigar-Shaw serves as a Senior Lecturer in Policing within Staffordshire University's School of Health, Education, Policing and Sciences, leveraging her interdisciplinary background in criminology, psychology, and sociology to bridge academic research with practical policing applications.
Her academic credentials include:
- PhD in Criminology from Keele University (2019), focused on mobile phone use prevention through road safety education
- MSc in Child Social Developmental Psychology from Keele University
- BSc (Joint Honours) in Psychology and Sociology from Keele University
Her research emphasizes procedural justice and police legitimacy through ethnographic studies of officer-public interactions, while pioneering work on mobile phone distraction examines driver resistance to safety messages. She champions academic-practitioner collaboration, working directly with police forces to transform findings into training protocols that enhance fairness in policing and road safety interventions.
Analysis of her 2019-2021 publications reveals evolving research trajectories: pandemic policing challenges dominate recent work, while foundational studies explore social identity in driver behavior. Her methodology consistently combines qualitative ethnography with practitioner knowledge exchange to address real-world problems in roads policing and procedural justice.
As an active Roads Policing Academic Collaboration member, she co-designs research initiatives with police forces including Staffordshire Police, focusing on knowledge translation where academic insights directly inform operational practices through co-created training packages and evidence-based policy recommendations.
