Speakers

Kyle Gordon, Frontline Policing North and East London

Kyle was the Met’s Roads Policing lead between 2018 and 2022, he is now back in frontline policing as the Commander in charge of North and East London and holds responsibility for emergency response policing across the capital. He has been the National Police Chief’s Council lead for Roads Policing Operations, Intelligence and Investigations since 2020, investing his time in enhancing the recognition of roads policing as a specialism on a par with firearms and public order. He is passionate about challenging the UK’s complacency around road harm.

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Sian Lewis Williams, National Crime Agency

Sian is the National Family Liaison Advisor at the National Crime Agency, a post she has held for over 9 years. The first three years as a seconded police officer and now as an employee of the National Crime Agency.

Prior to her secondment she was the South Wales Police Force Interview Advisor and Family Liaison Co-ordinator, a post that she held for seven years. Sian has experience in Child Abuse Investigations, Criminal Investigations, Major Crime Investigations, Investigative Training Department and Professional Standard Department Investigations. She has family liaison experience and co-ordination experience in mass disaster, hostage, murder, death abroad, partnership investigations and high profile investigations.

In her current role, Sian continues to support forces in relation to all family liaison matters, both operationally and strategically. She sits on a number of national forums both within the police service and with partner agencies. She has been both a Family Liaison Officer and Family Liaison Co-ordinator and in 2012 was awarded the Queens Police Medal for distinguished service to Family Liaison (an Honour she is extremely proud of).

Sian is also currently also an associate tutor at the University of Sunderland.

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Ross Moorlock, interim CEO, Brake

Ross was appointed interim CEO of Brake when founder Mary Williams retired in April 2023. Since joining Brake in 2017, he has played an instrumental role in the day-to-day leadership and administration of the charity’s operations. Outside of work, Ross is a keen road cyclist and runner, and he is passionate about road safety and reducing road deaths and injuries.

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Zoe Billings, Adapt and Evolve Consultancy

Dr Zoe Billings from Adapt & Evolve Consultancy presents on how to increase the wellbeing and effective performance of your teams, reducing sickness and supporting staff retention.

Psychological Safety is widely accepted as being the foundation for any high performing team. It is surprising, therefore, how few teams are truly psychologically safe.

Zoe will introduce the concept, help you question your organisation’s safety, and offer tips on how you can really make your team thrive.

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Tracey Lister, National Road Victim Service, Brake

Tracey is Head of Service at Brake and has been with the charity for over five years. She has strategic responsibility for Brake’s National Road Victim Service and managed Brake’s response to the pandemic through delivery of the Sudden Service. Tracey’s career has spanned 20 years within victim services and business development. She has held senior management positions at Brake, Victim Support, and the British Red Cross.

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Meera Naran, Brake trustee and independent road safety campaigner

Meera Naran MBE is an independent road safety campaigner and public speaker helping to ensure we have safer drivers on safer roads.

In May 2018 she lost her eight-year-old son Dev in a smart motorway collision on the M6. Since that time, she has successfully campaigned for the adoption of 18 national policy changes with a commitment from the Department for Transport to spend £900m including changes to the Highway Code and on-going driver education.

Among her many campaign successes has been the decision by the Department for Transport to pause the smart motorway rollout until five years of safety data is available. She is also currently lobbying for a change in legislation to implement life-saving technology such as autonomous emergency braking, proposed as Dev’s Law, and continues to work to ensure that no one else goes through the pain of losing a loved one in the way she and her family did. She is also a Trustee of the road safety charity, Brake.

Meera is a qualified Pharmacist and a Senior Lecturer in Post Graduate Clinical Pharmacy at De Montfort University, Leicester.

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Sharron Huddleston, road safety campaigner

Sharron Huddleston is a road safety campaigner and bereaved road victim. In 2017, her youngest child, Caitlin, was killed as a front-seat passenger in a novice driver’s car. Sharron reached out to Brake after Caitlin was killed, and her caseworker supported her to help her to get through the worst time in her life.

Since then, Sharron has been working to raise awareness of the dangers young novice drivers face upon passing their driving tests.

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Neil Greenberg, King's College London

Professor Neil Greenberg is a consultant academic, and occupational and forensic psychiatrist based at King’s College London. Neil has published more than 350 scientific papers and book chapters and has been the Secretary of the European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the President of the UK Psychological Trauma Society and Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Neil worked closely with various government organisations and published widely on psychological support for healthcare, and other key workers. As well as running March on Stress Ltd, a psychological health consultancy, Neil also is a trustee with the Society and Faculty of Occupational Medicine and is part of NHS England’s expert reference group on staff wellbeing.

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Leanne Savigar-Shaw, Staffordshire University

Dr Leanne Savigar-Shaw is a Senior Lecturer in Policing at Staffordshire University. She has been involved in many research projects exploring road safety, driver behaviour and roads policing, with one of the most recent being a road victims needs assessment focused largely in Warwickshire but considering the broader landscape of road victim support provision across England and Wales.

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Chris Lewis, Office of the Warwickshire Police and Crime Commissioner

Chris is the road safety and roads policing policy lead for the Warwickshire Police and Crime Commissioner, Mr Philip Seccombe. He has held this role since 2014. His role includes chairing the Warwickshire Road Safety Partnership Operations Board overseeing the Partnership’s commitment to safe systems and in particular Post-crash Response. Chris has been directly involved in developing an Independent Road Victim advocate service in Warwickshire and promoting remembrance for victims of road harm in Warwickshire.

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Jason Heather, Kent Police

Jason joined Kent Police in 1996 and has worked in a variety of front-line uniform, tactical and investigative roles. For the last seven years, Jason has worked as a lead investigator on the Serious Collision Investigation Unit, he is a TRiM practitioner and a Family Liaison Coordinator (FLC) for the Tactical Operations dept.

In 2020, Jason was seconded to Kent & Essex Police Serious Crime Directorate as FLC for Op Sandpiper, to deliver Family Liaison to bereaved families affected by the offending of convicted murderer and necrophile David Fuller. Jason is active in the force Family Liaison Executive Group and represents the force at regional level.

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Michelle Martell, National Road Victim Service

Michelle is the Central Services Manager for Brake’s National Road Victim Service where she is responsible for the triage team, research team, admin and central services caseworkers. Before joining Brake, Michelle has a background of working with children, homelessness, substance misuse, mental health, housing support and suicide for more than 20 years.

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Gaynor Toulson, National Road Victim Service

Gaynor is a regional caseworker with Brake’s National Road Victim Service covering Yorkshire and Humberside. She has been at the charity for three years, providing trauma-informed practical and emotional support to road victims. Gaynor has worked within support services for children for 17 years. Before joining Brake, she was a Detective Constable for West Yorkshire Police in the CID and Safeguarding departments.

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Elaine Trimble, National Road Victim Service

Elaine Trimble is a regional caseworker with Brake’s National Road Victim Service in Scotland, providing emotional and practical support to road victims in the Glasgow and Lanarkshire area. Before she joined Brake in August 2022, she worked in residential childcare, specialising in early years. Elaine’s father died in a road crash eight years ago. She is passionate about supporting people who have been in a similar situation to herself.

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David Trickey, UK Trauma Council

David Trickey is a consultant clinical psychologist who has specialised in working with traumatised children, young people and their families since 2000. He is co-director of the UK Trauma Council which harnesses the expertise of the UK’s leading child trauma experts to produce resources for those working with traumatised children and young people, as well as guidance and policy briefings based on the best available evidence. As a clinician he continues to focus on direct clinical work and the training and supervision of other clinicians working with traumatised children and young people.

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Gary Dawson, Spinal Injuries Association

Gary Dawson is Support Network Manager (North) for the Spinal Injuries Association. Gary sustained a T6 complete spinal cord injury (SCI) at the age of 19 in a freak motorcycle crash. Gary will be sharing his lived experience of SCI and what support is provided by the Spinal Injuries Association for all who are affected by SCI.

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Rob Fillmer, Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance

Rob qualified as a paramedic in 2013 and has worked across various clinical and management positions with East Midlands Ambulance Service before moving to Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance in 2019, where he works as a HEMS paramedic and Clinical operations manager. He is currently completing his MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice at St George’s University of London.

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Tamsin Keyes, Headway

Tamsin Keyes is the Publications and Research Manager at Headway UK. She is responsible for managing Headway’s award-winning range of booklets and factsheets, producing the charity’s hospital admission statistics and leading on in-house research. She is a graduate member of the British Psychological Society, holding a BSc in Psychology with Cognitive Neuroscience and MSc in Brain Imaging. She has previously worked as an Assistant Psychologist within the NHS and private neurorehabilitation settings.

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Yvonne Taylor, National Police Wellbeing Service

Dr Yvonne Taylor is a police Chief Inspector, with over 27 years’ service. She has had a varied career, working in many uniformed roles, including patrol, roads policing, neighbourhoods, staff officer, partnerships and custody policy units across two police forces in England.

With a particular interest in driver and performance impairment, along with overall employee wellbeing, Yvonne completed her Doctorate, titled “Shift workers, fatigued driving and the impact on road safety – An investigation involving police service employees,” with the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds.

Yvonne is currently the OK Healthy Living lead for the National Police Wellbeing Service, where she manages a number of ongoing services and research projects aimed at improving overall wellbeing for officers and staff within policing.

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Nerys Reeve, South Wales Police

Police Constable Nerys Reeve joined South Wales Police in 1997 and has worked in a variety of front-line roles before settling into the role of a roads policing officer and family liaison officer (FLO). In 2021, Nerys stepped away from her FLO role when she joined the serious collision Investigation unit. In December 2022, she set up a dedicated FLO unit within the roads policing unit, where she today is a full time FLO and FLA.

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