Dr Pauline Ramshaw

Journal Articles

Cosgrove, F. and Ramshaw, P. (2015) ‘It is what you do as well as the way that you do it: The value and deployment of PCSOs in achieving public engagement’, Policing and Society, 24 (1), pp 77-96.

Ramshaw, P. (2013) ‘Community policing and lateral career paths’, Police Practice and Research. An International Journal, 14, (6), pp 464-477.

Ramshaw, P. (2012)  ‘On the beat: variations in the patrolling styles of the police officer’, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 1 (2), pp 213-233.

 

Books/Book Chapters

(Forthcoming 2018) Ramshaw, P., Silvestri, M., and Simpson, M. (eds.) Police Leadership: Changing Landscapes. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

(Forthcoming 2018) Ramshaw, P., Silvestri, M. and Simpson, M. ‘New Directions in Police Leadership’, Ramshaw, P., Silvestri, M., and Simpson, M. (eds.) Police Leadership: Changing Landscapes. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

(Forthcoming 2018) Ramshaw, P. and Simpson, M. ‘Leadership at the Top’, in Ramshaw, P., Silvestri, M., and Simpson, M. (eds.) Police Leadership: Changing Landscapes. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

(Forthcoming 2018) Cosgrove, F. and Ramshaw, P. ‘Volunteers and the Special Constabulary’, in Ramshaw, P., Silvestri, M., and Simpson, M. (eds.) Police Leadership: Changing Landscapes. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

 

Policy Reports

Wattis, L., Ramshaw, P., Large, J., and Barker, E. (2016) Evaluation of Durham Constabulary’s Women’s Diversion Project. Social Futures Institute, Teesside University.

Simpson, M., Ramshaw, P and Crawshaw, P. (2015) Findings and recommendations from a research project reviewing the Cultures of Leadership in Cleveland Police, Social Futures Institute, Teesside University.

 

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• ‘The jeopardy is immense’: Job Insecurity Among Civilian Police Staff in an English Police and Crime Commissioner’s Office, Robinson, P., Ramshaw, P., Papanicolaou, G. 1 Mar 2026, In: International Journal of Police Science and Management
• Managing impressions: performance and identity in police leadership in the pandemic, Rowe, M., Davis, C., Ramshaw, P. 16 Mar 2025, In: Policing and Society
• Police Leadership and Legitimacy in the context of a Global Pandemic, Ramshaw, P., Rowe, M., Davis, C. 30 Dec 2025, In: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Changing Motivations of the Special Constable: A Qualitative Analysis of the Role of Organisational Experience in Retaining Satisfaction and Commitment, Ramshaw, P., Cosgrove, F. 13 Sep 2020, In: Policing and Society
• Twenty-three women officers’ experiences of policing in England: The same old story or a different story?, Cunningham, E., Ramshaw, P. 1 Mar 2020, In: International Journal of Police Science and Management
• Introduction, Ramshaw, P., Silvestri, M., Simpson, M. 15 Nov 2019, Police Leadership, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan
• Leadership, Volunteering and the Special Constabulary, Ramshaw, P. 15 Nov 2019, Police Leadership, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan
• Police Leadership: Changing Landscapes, Ramshaw, P., Silvestri, M., Simpson, M. 27 Sep 2019
• The Art of ‘Flexing’: Translating a New Vision of Police Leadership from the Top, Ramshaw, P., Simpson, M. 15 Nov 2019, Police Leadership, Cham, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: Police Leadership During a Pandemic 2021

Rachel Fernie From Occupation to Profession: An examination of contemporary police probationer training in England and Wales. Start Date: 01/10/2019 End Date: 05/06/2025

PhD Criminology: An ethnographic study of the Police Officer in the Community, University of Teesside, 2009, examined by Professor Robert Reiner (LSE) Professor Les Johnson (Portsmouth University) and Professor Tracy Shildrick (Teesside).

Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Teesside, 2004.

MSc Social Research Methods, University of Teesside, 2001.

BSc (Hons) Criminology, University of Teesside, 1999.

 

• Criminology PhD June 30 2009
• Full Member British Society of Criminology (BSC) 2017

Pauline’s research interests relate mostly to front line policing and include issues of gender and policing, organizational change, culture and leadership, and volunteering in the Police Service.  

Recent Projects:

2016 (P-I) Evidence by Design.  An Evidence Based Policing Collaboration with Cleveland Police.

2015 (C-I) Evaluation of Durham Constabulary’s Women’s Diversion Project.

2015 (C-I) A Pilot Study of the Role and Experiences of Police Volunteers in an Era of Austerity.  Research conducted with Cleveland Police and Durham Constabulary.

2014 (C-I) Cultures of Leadership in Cleveland Police.

2012 (P-I) Interviewing the Detectives.   

2011 (P-I) Women Officers’ Experiences of Policing.

2006 (Consultant) Capacity Building for Degree-Level Initial Police Training in Rwanda.