Joyce Liddle is Professor of Public Leadership and Enterprise at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK. Over the course of her career, she has published over 200 articles, 25 book chapters and 14 books. She currently co-edits an annual book series on Critical Perspectives on International Public Management, and chairs the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Public Sector Management. Gareth David Addidle is a Senior Lecturer in Policing at Teesside University, UK, where he teaches on the undergraduate and postgraduate Policing and Criminology programmes. His research and publications are in the areas of policing, governance, community safety and partnership working. He has worked with a number of police services across the UK and has been involved in research projects with Police Scotland (formerly Strathclyde Police), Devon and Cornwall Police, HMIC and, more recently, with Newcastle Business School.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Vulnerability: A complex and contradictory concept for ‘public good’.- Chapter 3. The changing role of universities in society: Key influences.- Chapter 4. The role of the university in the vulnerability agenda.- Chapter 5. Mechanisms for addressing Vulnerability: Giving voice to the vulnerable?.- Chapter 6. Two NE of England case studies-Northumbria and Teesside.- Chapter 7. Conclusion:-Future role of universities in vulnerability.

Joyce Liddle is Professor of Public Leadership and Enterprise at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK. Over the course of her career, she has published over 200 articles, 25 book chapters and 14 books. She currently co-edits an annual book series on Critical Perspectives on International Public Management, and chairs the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Public Sector Management. Gareth David Addidle is a Senior Lecturer in Policing at Teesside University, UK, where he teaches on the undergraduate and postgraduate Policing and Criminology programmes. His research and publications are in the areas of policing, governance, community safety and partnership working. He has worked with a number of police services across the UK and has been involved in research projects with Police Scotland (formerly Strathclyde Police), Devon and Cornwall Police, HMIC and, more recently, with Newcastle Business School.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Vulnerability: A complex and contradictory concept for ‘public good’.- Chapter 3. The changing role of universities in society: Key influences.- Chapter 4. The role of the university in the vulnerability agenda.- Chapter 5. Mechanisms for addressing Vulnerability: Giving voice to the vulnerable?.- Chapter 6. Two NE of England case studies-Northumbria and Teesside.- Chapter 7. Conclusion:-Future role of universities in vulnerability.

Joyce Liddle is Professor of Public Leadership and Enterprise at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK. Over the course of her career, she has published over 200 articles, 25 book chapters and 14 books. She currently co-edits an annual book series on Critical Perspectives on International Public Management, and chairs the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Public Sector Management. Gareth David Addidle is a Senior Lecturer in Policing at Teesside University, UK, where he teaches on the undergraduate and postgraduate Policing and Criminology programmes. His research and publications are in the areas of policing, governance, community safety and partnership working. He has worked with a number of police services across the UK and has been involved in research projects with Police Scotland (formerly Strathclyde Police), Devon and Cornwall Police, HMIC and, more recently, with Newcastle Business School.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Vulnerability: A complex and contradictory concept for ‘public good’.- Chapter 3. The changing role of universities in society: Key influences.- Chapter 4. The role of the university in the vulnerability agenda.- Chapter 5. Mechanisms for addressing Vulnerability: Giving voice to the vulnerable?.- Chapter 6. Two NE of England case studies-Northumbria and Teesside.- Chapter 7. Conclusion:-Future role of universities in vulnerability.