Det. Supt. Ben Ewart takes over the role as N8 PRP begins new phase of operationsThe N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP) has appointed Detective Superintendent Ben Ewart as its new Policing Co-Director, from October 2024.Ben is Head of Training and Student...
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Launch of Manifesto to Prevent Gender Based Violence: A 10 Year Vision
Academics from Durham University and University of Central Lancashire have launched a 10 year vision on how to prevent gender-based violence. The manifesto, copied below, aims to influence the UK policy agenda on preventing gender-based violence, with the ambition of...
Call for Police Participants for Research on Harm Prevention, County Lines, and Uniforms
Three new projects at the University of Liverpool seek participants for research on police uniforms, harm prevention when policing illicit substances, and multiagency working in county lines policing. Police Uniforms Survey Is your uniform comfortable? Is it...
Report recommends shift in priorities, ten years on from Clare’s Law
N8 PRP Small Grant Holders have identified 5 key issues for the Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme. A new report from University of Liverpool’s School of Law and Social Justice, in partnership with University of Central Lancashire, examines ten years of Clare’s...
N8 PRP Announces New 3 Year Phase, Seeks New Policing Co-Director
The N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP) has announced a new 3-year phase, starting 1 October 2024. The new phase has been made possible through the continued support of the N8 Research Partnership universities and the 11 police forces across the north,...
N8 PRP Announces New Events and Registration Discount for Major Drugs Conference
The N8 PRP Drugs Policing Conference, Policing Markets, Policing People, will take place at the University of Manchester, 1-2 July 2024. N8 Policing Research Partnership has announced new additions to the Drugs Policing Conference Programme, and a discount for all...
N8 PRP Publishes Annual Report 2023
The N8 Policing Research Partnership has published the annual report for 2023. With a foreword from Serena Kennedy KPM, Chief Constable for Merseyside and NPCC Head of Prevention, the report reviews N8 PRP activity of the past year across Knowledge Exchange, Research,...
Labour’s Community Policing Guarantee
Professor Geoff Pearson, N8 PRP Co-Director, comments on the Labour Party's 'Community policing guarantee’. Extra funding for the College of Policing - and in particular to train police analysts - is to be welcomed. Evidence-based policing, which goes beyond mere...
N8 PRP funds research on digitally enabled coercive control
The N8 PRP has funded a 9 month grant investigating how police can respond to the use of domestic surveillance technology in coercive control cases. N8 Policing Research Partnership has announced £34k in funding for a project led by Dr Antoinette Huber and Professor...
Innovation Forum Inspires Ideas and Actions to Improve Policing for Black People
The 2023 N8 PRP Policing Innovation Forum discussed how to 'Improve Policing for Black People'. Around 60 delegates gathered at the beautiful Roundthorn Hotel in Penrith on 21 June for the eighth Policing Innovation Forum, 'Improving Policing for Black People: The...