Understanding the health and wellbeing of female police officers and staff

这一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女性健康的机会。他们将利用空气电波健康监测研究的次要数据，并进行访谈，以探索在警务背景下哪些因素影响妇女的健康，以制定更好的方式来了解与健康有关的经历、其在整个生命周期对女性警察职业的影响以及进行变革性实践的可能性。然而，很少有前瞻性研究分析这一工作人员的健康和福祉，更少关注女性官员和工作人员及其具体的健康问题。以前的研究表明，女警察与男警察遭受相同的危险和压力，但也承受与女性健康问题和她们在警务工作中的少数群体地位有关的额外压力。女性警官还经历着独特的压力来源，包括与男性警官相比，对她们履行职责的能力和技能的担忧、性骚扰、歧视，以及报告其组织内缺乏支持。

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.