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...
Dr Ellen Reeves reports on the knowledge exchange event held in response to the N8 PRP Police Research Priority, 'Reducing Harassment and Serious Violence in the Night Time Economy'. On May 21st, the N8 PRP co-hosted with the University of Liverpool’s Criminal Justice...
The N8 PRP 2025 Police Priority Grants will investigate neurodivergence in custody and the wellbeing of call handlers. N8 Policing Research Partnership has announced that two Police Priority Grants have been funded, with research due to start in May 2025. N8 PRP...
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...
