Jay Karecha

Course Lecturer at Liverpool Centre for Advanced Policing Studies

Trainer

Jay Karecha is a researcher and lecturer in the Liverpool Centre for Advanced Policing Studies at Liverpool John Moores University, where he has worked for the past 24 years. Jay’s research interests focus on the health and wellbeing of police officers.

He is currently working on a research study, funded by the Office of the Police Chief Scientific Adviser via the Police Star fund, titled: ‘Can Wearable Health Technology and education packages improve health, wellbeing and quality of life among police personnel?’

In addition to Jay’s current research into health interventions for police officers, Jay is also currently researching police officer experiences of divorce whilst in service, and prior to this, Jay conducted research into police attitudes towards mental health. Jay has led HEFCE-funded research into student experiences of hate crime, harassment and sexual violence, and conducted research on behalf of the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside into the impact of austerity on community safety. Jay’s expertise focuses on research design, survey design, quantitative research, qualitative data capture and evaluation.

Jay’s current teaching responsibilities include delivery of the ‘research methods’ module on the Informa Master’s programmes, alongside oversight of the team of subject-expert supervisors who support students on ‘the dissertation module’