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 next Wednesday, 1 October. A fund of £100,000 is available to N8 academics and is expected to fund around 4 projects. 

Police Priority Grants seek to fund innovative ideas and collaborative research to generate new resources for N8 PRP partners, supporting the development of policing research and evidence-based policing. 

Through the Police Priority Grants, N8 PRP supports researchers at N8 universities to develop the evidence base and collaborations that will enable them to impact police policy and practice and to seek external research funding to further develop their work. 

2025/26 Call

This will be the first of two calls this project year, with the second due to open 1 February 2026. 

This first call will invite proposals on the topics identified by the N8 PRP partners as the research priorities for the year. The priorities identify strategic areas where N8 PRP can add value by funding research and knowledge exchange with operational significance for police partners and the potential for long-term impact in research, policy, and practice. 

In addition, this year there will be an ‘open’ category, inviting researchers to propose projects on their own topics. This is in recognition of the valuable collaborations and insights that have come from this type of call in the past, and the value N8 PRP partners place on open dialogue and fresh ideas. 

Potential applicants are asked to review previous projects funded by N8 PRP. As the Police Priory Grant is a seedcorn fund, projects must be meaningfully distinct from any previously awarded by N8 PRP, and must not be a continuation or duplication of work previously funded by N8 PRP. Researchers who have previously received N8 PRP funding are welcome to apply if they are proposing a new project that requires development funding. 

Further Information

The finalised priority statement and call guidance will be published in full next week. To make sure you see the announcement, follow N8 PRP on Twitter, Bluesky or LinkedIn, or if you are a member of an N8 PRP institution, contact your institutional lead and ask them to inform you of N8 PRP news and events. 

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