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Dr. Isabelle Bartkowiak-Théron, PhD, (University of Tasmania, Australia) specialises in socio-legal studies, with a particular interest in police interaction with vulnerable people. She is the lead senior researcher on the vulnerability, police education, and law enforcement and public health research streams at the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies. In her teaching capacity, she coordinates the Tasmania Police Recruit Course for the University, within which she teaches on police interactions with vulnerable people and the related legislation. An award winning educator, she is the recipient of University of Tasmania Teaching Excellence Medal. Within the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association, Isabelle heads up the Education Special Interest Group, and sits on the First Responders Mental Health Special Interest Group, as well as the Prosecutors Group. She has been the deputy chair of the Tasmanian Social Science Human Research Ethics Committee since 2018. She occasionally consults on the UNODC on vulnerability matters and international curricula. Isabelle sits on various international journal editorial committees, and on international and Australian charitable, professional and research governance boards, such as Connect42 (a Tasmanian charity that aims to promote literacy as a public health issue), the Australian Institute of Police Management Ethical Review and Research Governance Advisory Committee, and the Australia New Zealand Society of Criminology. She sits on the Australian Crime Prevention Council as the executive member for Tasmania, and on the Tasmanian Sentencing Advisory Council. She has two amazingly wonderful children, and is often seen with knitting needles in hand. Staff Sergeant James Clover, MPA, has been responsible for a variety of roles in policing including undercover operations, gangs, high-risk offender assessment and management, training, hate crime investigations, and combating human trafficking and sexual exploitation. He has represented Canadian police education and training in his previous roles as a National Advisory to Police Training and the Chair for the implementation of the National Police Training Inventory. He has conducted research and provided consultation to several countries, including Tampa Florida (2014) and Melbourne Australia (2012). In 2018, James was awarded the 2018 International Policing Award from the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police. James was named a Police Fellow with the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association in 2020. Since 2015, he has instructed within the Department of Public Safety & Justice Studies, Faculty of Health and Community Studies at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is not uncommon to see James working at his desk with one or two pugs sitting on his lap. Denise Martin, PhD, is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Abertay in the city of Dundee, Scotland. She has had a long career as a researcher in the field of Criminal Justice and her work has involved working with vulnerable groups and practitioners across a range of issues. Her interests are primarily around partnership working and examining ways to effectively support communities resolve issues around crime and anti-social behaviour. She also has a strong interest in learning and education in the field of criminal Justice specifically leadership and organizational change. She has worked on projects focusing on alternatives to custody for young offenders (with the Children's Society), understanding the experience of school aged children's crime victimization and evaluating coaching for women offenders. Professor Martin has also been awarded funding from a variety of organizations, including the Scottish Prison Service for a project of prison officer professionalization, the Home Office to examine emergency service collaboration and Police Scotland to evaluate a Natio
