European Journal of Policing Studies
Article

Belgian reflections on the dialogue of the deaf
Keywords Dialogue of the deaf, partnerships, boundary spanners, pracademics, insider-outsider perspectives
Authors Marleen Easton en Stanny De Vlieger
DOI 10.5553/EJPS/2034760X2018005003004
Author's information

Marleen Easton
Marleen Easton is a sociologist and professor in the department of Public Governance, Management and Finance at the Faculty of Economics & Business Administration at Ghent University. Since 2007 she is director of the research group ‘Governing & Policing Security’ where she has built up her experience in supervising more than 30 research projects. Every study has been valorized in a conference/seminar in cooperation with policing practitioners. Her active participation in the Flemish Centre for Policing & Security since 2001 plays a crucial role in building up this nexus. In 2014 she took up the presidency of the Innovation Center for Security to pursue a nexus in the field of innovation, technology and security (corresp: marleen.easton@ugent.be).

Stanny De Vlieger
Stanny De Vlieger holds a master in criminology and business administration. He is Chief Commissioner (judicial director) of the Federal Police in the Province of Antwerp and has over 25 years of experience working in criminal intelligence. He is participating in and advising some (inter) national research projects on the management of capacity, transnational private security networks in ports and enhancing criminal intelligence analysis through technology (VALCRI). Furthermore he took up the role of expert in projects, funded by the EU, aiming to reorganize (security) administrations in Tunisia, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Since 2008 he is an active member of the Flemish Centre for Policing & Security where he is committed to enhance the policing-science nexus.

  • Abstract

      The relationship between police practitioners and researchers has been described as a ‘dialogue of the deaf’ (MacDonald in Bradley, 2005), a ‘dialogue of the listening’ (Johnston & Shearing, 2009) or a ‘dialogue of the hard-of-hearing’ (Bronitt, 2013). Relying on their experiences into research on, for, by and with the police in the last decade, Easton & De Vlieger recount their Belgian reflections on these dialogues. Their experiences in the research related to these partnerships are described and the key barriers and essential enablers for nurturing these partnerships discussed.

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