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Prof Inga Heyman's Recognition (150)

Invited panel member SIPR Grant funding Award panel - ‘Public Protection Network’ research grants.
2021 - 2021

Recognition Type Grant Funding Panel Member
Research Areas Criminology
Research Themes Health

The Intersection of Policing and Public Health, ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre annual conference
2025 - 2025

Recognition Type Invited Speaker
Description The intersection of Policing and Public Health

Background
Policing and public health services are inextricably intertwined, often sharing much common ground in the support people and communities at risk of harm. There are shared underlying risk factors which increase demands yet, no one organisation is adequately skilled, equipped and resourced to address the complex issues experienced by those requiring an inter-sectoral approach.
Presentation
This panel will explore the challenges and opportunities for a whole systems approach to encourage joint strategies for early intervention and prevention.
Scottish studies of policing and public health initiatives will be presented. Firstly, a collaborative approach to supporting people with dementia who go missing, and secondly, in the reduction of drug related deaths. Both initiatives are underpinned by a public health approach to policing, bringing together collective capabilities and resources to reduce risk and prevent harm.
Role Name Affiliation email
Panel Chair and presenter 4 Dr Inga HeymanEdinburgh Napier University
Presenter 1 Dr Arun Sondhi Therapeutic Solutions
Presenter 2 Professor Stan Gilmour
Presenter 3Professor Nadine Dougal Edinburgh Napier University
Research Areas Criminology
Research Themes Health
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research

LEPH Education? What for, what's important and how to make it happen? International LEPH Ottawa 2025
2025 - 2025

Recognition Type Invited Speaker
Description Law Enforcement and Public Health (LEPH) education sits at the intersection of multiple disciplines, yet significant challenges remain in embedding LEPH within tertiary curricula and supporting meaningful research in this space. Beyond institutional barriers such as disciplinary silos, funding constraints, and workforce demands, negative attitudes toward LEPH research—particularly from traditional academic and policing sectors—further complicate efforts to generate and disseminate impactful work. For early career researchers (ECRs), these challenges can be particularly daunting, often limiting opportunities to publish, secure grants, or gain recognition in mainstream academic forums.

By bringing together educators, researchers, and journal editors, this session will provide practical insights into advancing LEPH education and fostering a more inclusive research environment. Attendees will leave with concrete strategies for overcoming publication hurdles and strengthening the visibility of LEPH scholarship.
Research Areas Education
Research Themes Health

NASA - Aerospace Medical Association (AsMA), American Public University System’s Analog Research Group
2025 - 2025

Recognition Type Invited Speaker
Description Analog Astronauts are people who take part in Earth-based missions in environments designed to mimic space travel where research is conducted to help understand and make space-based missions as safe and successful as possible including those to the moon and Mars.

Invited presentation on narrative therapy skills as part of a collection of practices (journal prompt writing and group activities) by 9 international experts that are part of the AWE Project: Advancing Wellness in (*space) Exploration.
Research Areas Health and wellbeing
Research Themes Health
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research

Beyond the Neurotypical Lens: Police Scotland's emerging approaches to Neurodivergence in Criminal Justice interactions
2025

Recognition Type Invited Speaker
Description Chair and panel member
Panel Description - Associate Professor Inga Heyman, Assistant Chief Constable Park Sutherland, Superintendent Graeme Galiee Professor Stan Gilmour

This session examines Police Scotland's pioneering work in recognising and accommodating neurological variations within criminal justice processes.

Panellists will explore how existing initiatives are challenging traditional approaches to staff wellbeing, vulnerability assessment, custody procedures, and witness interviewing techniques.

The discussion will critically analyse the tensions between medical and social models of neurodivergence, evaluate current organisational policy and practice for staff, and training programmes for frontline officers, and consider how these approaches might inform broader police and criminal justice reform across the UK.
Research Areas Learning disabilities
Research Themes Health
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research

Neurodiversity: Navigating the criminal justice system at the intersect of policing and health - Policing and Vulnerability Doctoral and ECR Webinar Series
2025 - 2025

Recognition Type Invited Speaker
Description People with a neurodiversity or neurodisability are overly represented in policing
interactions. Yet knowledge to support meaningful and positive impacts on criminal
justice systems to support people with a neurodiversity/disability are spars. In this
webinar we explore this emerging area of research. We consider the interrelated and
unmet health and social care needs of people with neurodiversities/neurodisabilities
with a focus on those coming to the attention of the police. We are interested in how to
effectively identify and navigate justice settings and what the key intervention points
should be.
Research Areas Law and Legal Policy
Research Themes Health
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research
Org Units School of Health and Social Care

Chair - Orators President Atifete Jahjaga, Former President of the Republic of Kosovo and President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Former President of the Republic of Poland,
2023 - 2023

Recognition Type Invited Speaker
Description •Invited Chair to Orators - President Atifete Jahjaga, Former President of the Republic of Kosovo, member of the Council of Women World Leaders and President Aleksander Kwaśniewski, Former President of the Republic of Poland, Chair of the Eastern and Central European and Central Asian Commission on Drug Policy, Member of the Global Commission on Drug Policy (European LEPH conference, Sweden,2023)
Research Areas Law and Legal Policy
Research Themes Health
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research

Invited panel chair - International Law Enforcement and Public Health Conference , Philadelphia, US A. Policy and partnership
2023 - 2023

Recognition Type Invited Speaker
Description Panel Chair Inga Heyman,
Edinburgh Napier University (Scotland)
Speakers:
An Exploration of a sergeant’s
capacity to achieve policy
conformance from front line law
enforcement professionals
• Paul Rinkoff, Toronto Police Service
(Canada)
Positive Peace: creating and
sustaining peaceful communities • Charlie Allen, Institute for
Economics and Peace (Australia)
Collaborative learning environments:
where do we start? A critical
assessment of Police Scotland’s
engagement with learning and staff
development from a police officer
and partner profession perspective
• Larissa Engelmann, Edinburgh
Napier University (Scotland)
Research Areas Criminology
Research Themes Health
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research
URL https://glepha.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/leph2021-conference-program-updated-1-1.pdf

Global Public Health week -In Crisis: Police and Community Response to Mental Health Calls An International Panel on Alternatives and Engagement Impact of police and healthcare systems and practice on human rights of those in mental distress
2023 - 2023

Recognition Type Invited Speaker
Description International panel presentations.
In Crisis: Police and Community Response to Mental Health Calls
An International Panel on Alternatives and Engagement
Research Areas Mental health
Research Themes Health
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research
Org Units School of Health and Social Care

Panel session Chair - European Law enforcement and Pubic health conference Public Health Approaches in Policing - Scotland
2023 - 2023

Recognition Type Invited Speaker
Description European conference panel - Applying Public Health Approaches
in Policing - Scotland
Research Areas Public health
Research Themes Health
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research
URL https://event.trippus.net/Home/Index/AEAKgIPuESp6KLzY4xR3XarnbQ2GpEOuRyOljcjjMpopqa_IX1eVviI3B0LRPgJ8QZ8RnhGZxxO6/AEAKgIOm6fI_biINyfMWk6xRvuPaBNLGc3lSe4Df6-vY6T0MtygyRaGnpFyP9OOFPrIMJufDp2dI/eng

Session chair The 6th International Law Enforcement & Public Health Conference, Philadelphia, USA (virtual); March 2021.Mental health pathway: right care, right time
2021 - 2021

Recognition Type Invited Speaker
Description Speakers - Claire Coleman, Police
Scotland
Speakers:
• Emma Croft, Police Scotland
• Lisa MacDonald, NHS24
(Scotland)
Research Areas Mental health
Research Themes Health
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research
URL https://glepha.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/leph2021-conference-program-updated-1-1.pdf

International blog - Joining dots: A Multisystem Approach to Policing and Public Health.
2024 - 2023

Recognition Type Media Activity
Description International Blog -
Despite evidence of the extensive common ground, energy, courage for change, and innovation to integrate policies and practice across police and health sectors, it can be a frustratingly slow and complex process. Embedding a cross-disciplinary field of practice is challenging. In part, this is due to disparate educational programmes, shifting organisational leadership, political agendas and limitations on evidence based cross-disciplinary research.
Research Areas Criminology
Research Themes Health
Research Centres/Groups Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research
Org Units School of Health and Social Care
URL https://glepha.com/news/commentary/