N8 PRP Launches 2024 Annual Report
The 2024 Annual Report looks at the achievements of the past year and plans for 2025.
The N8 Policing Research Partnership has published its Annual Report for 2024.
Developing Partnerships
The report has a foreword by Sir Andy Marsh, Chief Operating Officer of the College of Policing. Sir Andy reflects on the long-standing partnership of the College and N8 PRP, and how that collaboration is evolving.
2024 saw significant changes to N8 PRP, as the partnership moved to ‘Phase 3’. The Academic and Policing Co-Directors, Prof Geoff Pearson and Det. Supt. Ben Ewart, introduce the new operating model. The report lays out the aims, strategy, and deliverables of the new phase, as well as the programme and priorities for 2025.
Successes in Knowledge Exchange, Research, and Development
The successes of 2024 are covered, with reports from three significant knowledge exchanges events held across the N8 PRP region. N8 PRP was instrumental in supporting conferences on preventing gender-based violence and abuse, women in policing, and drug checking, in Leeds, Durham, and Liverpool respectively.
There was significant research output from N8 PRP in 2024, with the publication of 6 reports from projects on the harassment of women runners, managing sex offenders, outcome 16 and racially minoritized women, policing drug markets, preventing ‘cuckooing’ victimisation and responding to digitally enabled coercive control. The impact and engagement activity undertaken by each of these projects demonstrates the impressive reach and significance of the projects.
The New Researchers in Policing Network (NRiPN) continued to develop, with four Excellence in Policing Research webinars and one Knowledge Exchange Conference organised to support PGRs and ECRs develop the skills they need to develop sustainable careers in policing research.
Impact and the N8 Context
Three of the N8 PRP’s policing partners report on how N8 PRP has supported evidence-based policing activity at their force in the past year, with changes to policy and practice arising from N8 PRP’s research and knowledge exchange activity.
The wider context of policing research and collaboration is detailed in the N8 PRP University reports. The ‘profiles’ demonstrate the incredible diversity of impact-focused policing research created by the N8 Universities, with projects underway on deepfakes (Dr Sophie Nightingale, Lancaster), tool theft (Dr Kate Tudor, Durham), healthcare in police custody (Dr Gethin Rees, Newcastle), and criminality in the private rental sector (Drs Xavier L’Hoiry, Sheffield, and Prof Caroline Hunter, York), to highlight just four examples. The value of policing research is further supported by a growing portfolio of research centres at the N8, such as Security Lancaster, the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre (co-led by York and Leeds), and the Centre for Research into Violence and Abuse (Durham). This portfolio received a significant addition in 2024, with the launch of an £11m NIHR-funded Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Research, led by the Universities of York and Hull.
Read the Report
The report can be read in full at the link below, or by visiting https://www.n8prp.org.uk/home/reports/.
If you would like more information on the report, please contact the N8 PRP project manager, Helen Gordon-Smith.
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