Our Programme Conferences

As we moved out of the pandemic, we were once again able to hold in-person events at Cumberland Lodge. During the year we held five conferences:

• Cumberland Lodge Fellows’ Retreat, September 2021

• Practitioner Responses to Child Trafficking: Emerging Good Practice (10-12 October 2021), organised in partnership with the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, built on our 2017 report, Eliminating Modern Slavery: Enhancing the Police Response.

• The British German Democracy Forum (25-27 October 2021), organised in partnership with the Goethe-Institut, London, explored the problematic issues associated with colonial history in the UK and Germany and connected with our 2019 report, Difficult Histories & Positive Identities.

• Shaping Social Mobility: Education and Employment (7-8 March 2022) explored in depth issues raised in our 2020 Dialogue & Debate webinar, ‘Is education the answer to social mobilty?’

• Our 40th annual police conference, ‘Legitimacy & Confidence in Policing’ (17-19 June 2022) revisited a recurring issue for this series, last explored in the 2013 conference, ‘The Legitimacy of Policing: Connecting the People to the Reforms’.

• The annual Life Beyond the PhD conference (15-19 August 2022) again provided support for students from universities across the UK completing doctorates, with a focus on applying research skills into areas that promote social progress.