Identity After the Uniform
A free course for police, fire and ambulance staff. Four short lessons on what the uniform carries beyond the job, and what happens to it when the role changes or ends.
This page shows what the AURIS research records actually hold behind this course: the coded themes it draws on, the research projects it belongs to and the publications that carry the argument. Nothing is listed here that is not already recorded elsewhere.
Interviews
The programme records 38 coded interviews of a planned 108. The live interview log is still being filled, so this page reports the written programme figure rather than a log count.
See the full research progressThemes behind this course
No coded theme in the interview log names the same ground as this course yet. Coding is under way, and themes will appear here once they are recorded. We do not list themes we cannot show the work behind.
What the course record states
This course record does not yet carry its own research and evidence note.
Research projects
Data collection ongoing · 2024 to ongoing
Identity After the Uniform
A long term qualitative study of how identity changes when a defining role ends, drawing on interviews across the military, emergency services and healthcare.
Published · 2025
From Transition to Service Provider Identity Adaptation
Repositioning transition as an ongoing process of identity adaptation rather than a single event at the end of service.
In review · 2025 to ongoing
Service Provider Identity Adaptation
Extending the model beyond leaving service to the ongoing adaptation people make while still in role.
Publications
- Identity After the Uniform: What the Evidence Tells Me, Where the Gaps Are, and What I'm Doing Next
The wider evidence base, findings from 38 of a planned 108 coded interviews, the current evidence strength of the AURIS framework, and the gaps still open in this work.
- Identity After the Uniform
The founding white paper on what happens to identity when a defining role ends.