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Small Grants

The annual Small Grant Awards fund innovative and collaborative projects that increase our understanding of policing and improve police practice.

The Small Grants Award is an open call providing investment for research into targeted, high-priority areas of policing work, areas where the gaps in knowledge are most prominent, and where research benefits are of greatest value. They provide the flexibility to move swiftly in response to different areas of policing, new challenges, and pressing concerns.

Reports

Report Cover with title 'Abuse of Women Runners

2023-24


Abuse of Women Runners.
Report Cover with title 'Who is the Victim?

2022-23


Identifying the Victim in Coercive Control Cases.
Two women sat on a hill

2022-23


Recording HBVA.
Three people sat at a high table look towards a man in a court hearing

2022-23


High Harm High Frequency Offenders.
close up of water

2020-21


Victims' experience of Smartwater.
woman in white jumper holding a phone

2020-21


Policing DA during Covid 19 - Online Reporting Tool.
Silhouetted figure walking across gangway in a prison corridor

2020-21


Multiagency Strategy for tackling OCGs.
Group of teenagers smiling and laughing

2020-21


Knife Crime Imagery and Messaging.
Empty street in a town centre with sign in the foreground that reads Coronavirus Stay Home Protect the NHS Save Lives

2020-21


Every Ticket Tells a Story - Covid FPNs and Ethnic Disproportionality.
red sign on lampost with text COVID-19 Keep Apart

2020-21


Understanding the changing demand for police during covid-19.
Woman walking down a pedestrianised shopping street

2020-21


Protect COVID 19: Effects of Intimate Partner Violence.
Walking with umbrella on dark night

2019-20


Identifying sexual trafficking online.
Sunset silhouette of man and boy

2019-20


Police response to child-to-parent violence.
Coffee being poured into cups

2019-20


Embedding mental health support within district police stations.
Man holding woman's hand image shot from behind

2018-19


Early identification of honour-based abuse.
A CCTV camera mounted on a concrete wall

2018-19


Mapping modern slavery with automatic number plate recognition.
Woman crossing busy road

2018-19


Sex Work Liaison Officer: Policing vulnerability.
A long exposure image of a night-time city street

2018-19


Realising the potential of automatic number plate recognition.
Depressed young woman

2017-18


Police responses to coercive control.
Man holding theatre mask

2017-18


Manipulative presentation techniques of coercive control offenders.
A bag of Spice

2017-18


Novel psychoactive substance use.
Railway tracks at dusk

2017-18


Mapping the contours of modern slavery.
Police officer talking into radio

2016-17


Body-worn cameras at incidents of domestic abuse.
A cannabis leaf on a table

2016-17


Policing cannabis in North Yorkshire.
A bitcoin amongst other coins

2016-17


Policing Bitcoin: Crime involving cryptocurrency.
Two hands clasped vertically

2016-17


Innovation in policing domestic abuse.