As everyone has a breather over the Easter break, it seems like a moment to introduce myself as the new project manager for N8 PRP, look back on what’s happened so far, and take a look at what’s ahead for the partnership this year. I took up this role in February...
Written by Dr Annette Bramley, Director of the N8 Research Partnership The aspiration of the N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP) is to work with policing partners to transform the way research evidence is co-produced and used. Over the five year HEFCE Catalyst...
When I was appointed to the position of co-director of the N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP), I couldn’t have anticipated that my tenure would begin in such unusual circumstances. The impact of Covid-19 and the resulting lockdown has presented police forces...
Donna Marie Brown and Nicole Westmarland, Durham University In 2017 we put on an N8 PRP event at Durham University aimed primarily at postgraduates on the topic of using evidence-based research to improve policing practice. We had as keynote speakers the then Durham...
Written by Fiona McLaughlin, Research Officer - Policing Data Analytics, University of Leeds As we are approach the end of both 2019 and our second Data Specialist CPD Programme, this is an appropriate time to reflect on the lessons learnt. While the demands of...
Gabrina Pounds is Senior Lecturer in Discourse Studies at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. For the last ten years her research has focused on the communication of empathy and person-centeredness in professional contexts, including medical consultations and...
Written by Aleksandra Irnazarow, University of Leeds I’m a Research Fellow in Data Analytics at the University of Leeds, working on the intersection between information systems and psychology. I’m interested in understanding how people use information, whether it’s a...
Written by Dr Sam Lewis, Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Leeds A recent review of international research by Simmons et al. (2018) concluded that child-to-parent violence (CPV) remains one of the least studied forms of family violence....
First published in Policing Insight, March 2019 The terror attack in New Zealand has exposed fault lines in the prevention of extreme right-wing related terrorism. Ahead of the forthcoming review of the UK’s Prevent strategy, researcher Neda Richards talks to Policing...
Written by Ashley Kilgallon, PhD Researcher at the University of Leeds I was driving to work yesterday morning at around 0640. I was grumpy. I was driving to my ‘money-job’ (as I call it, despite it not earning me much money) which I have whilst I finish studying. I...
