Event report of a webinar on new research applying a procedural justice lens to racially minoritised women’s experiences of policing DA. New research presented at an N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP) webinar has highlighted how racially minoritised women...
Event report of findings from a new N8 PRP Agile Evidence Review. N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP) convened a webinar on 13 March to explore how policing and partner agencies can better prevent suicide among people arrested or under investigation for sexual...
N8 PRP has funded two new Police Priority Grants and opens a new call for funding. The N8 Policing Research Partnership has announced funding for projects on Voluntary Interviews and Officer Wellbeing, and opened a new call for applications to the Police Priority...
N8 PRP reports on the events, research, impact and achievements of 2025. Read N8 PRP's Annual Report 2025. N8 PRP has launched it's 2025 Annual Report, looking back on a year of innovation and collaboration. With a foreword from Professor Ruth Lamont, UKRI Thematic...
N8 PRP hosted a collaborative and interdisciplinary event for police practitioners and researchers examining how to improve police investigations. On 21 January 2026, the University of Lancaster welcomed the N8 PRP Northern Evidence Based Policing Hub for a knowledge...
The N8 PRP Police Priority Grants are open for applications and 5 new priorities have been announced. N8 Policing Research Partnership has announced the 2025/26 Police Priority Grants Call is now open. Applications are invited from academics at N8 universities for...
The N8 PRP Police Priority Grants invite proposals on the 2025/6 N8 PRP Research Priorities and researcher-led initiatives. Police Priority Grants N8 Policing Research Partnership has announced that the call for proposals to the N8 PRP Police Priority Grants will open...
The New Researchers in Policing Network gathered in Sheffield to engage with police on building collaborative research On September 16th, the N8 PRP New Researchers in Policing Network (NRiPN) met at the University of Sheffield for their Research Away day. The event...
Professor Layla Skinns will take up the role in September 2025. The N8 Policing Research Partnership has announced that Layla Skinns, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the School of Law at the University of Sheffield, will take on the role of N8 PRP...
Four universities within the N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP) have been awarded funding by the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) to launch three Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACEs) in October 2025. The...
