Understanding the health and wellbeing of female police officers and staff

该博士学位为成功的候选人提供了在苏格兰警察部队中探索妇女健康的机会。他们将利用“电波健康监测研究”的二级数据，并进行访谈，探讨在警务工作中影响妇女健康的因素，以更好地了解与健康有关的经历、其对女性警察整个生命历程的影响以及变革性做法的可能性。然而，很少有前瞻性研究分析这支队伍的健康和福祉，更少的研究关注女性官员和工作人员及其具体的健康问题。先前的研究表明，女警官与男警官一样，面临着同样的危险和压力，但也经历着与女性健康问题和她们在警务工作中的少数地位有关的额外压力。女警官还面临独特的压力，包括与男警官相比，对她们履行职责的能力和技能的担忧、性骚扰、歧视，并报告说在其组织内缺乏支持。

This PhD provides the opportunity for the successful candidate to explore women's health within the Police force in Scotland. They will draw on secondary data from the Airwave Health Monitoring Study and undertake interviews to explore what factors impact women's health in the context of policing to develop better ways of understanding health-related experiences, their impact on female police careers across the life course and the possibility for transformative practices.A number of studies have investigated the stressors associated with police work. However, very few prospective studies exist analysing the health and wellbeing of this workforce and even fewer focus on women officers and staff and their specific health issues. Previous research has shown that women police officers suffer the same hazards and stressors as their male counterparts but also experience additional stressors associated with female health issues and their minority status within policing. Female officers also experience unique stressors including concerns over their ability and skill to perform their duties compared to male officers, sexual harassment, discrimination and have reported lack of support within their organisations.