Lecture: Prof Geoff Pearson on Reforming Football Spectator Laws
Professor Geoff Pearson, N8 PRP Co-Director, will give his inaugural lecture on the 'long overdue' need to reform laws regulating football spectators. 'Time for a Clear Out: Reforming the Laws Regulating Football Spectators', to be held at University of Manchester on...
Vulnerability and violence reduction: engaging excluded children
Dr Eric Fletcher looks at the context of vulnerable children in the UK, and how a problem-based learning pilot scheme is providing violence-reduction education for those most at risk. We are all more or less vulnerable to harm throughout our lives. For most of us we...
Small Grants 2021: Award Announcement
Four new projects funded by N8 PRP Small Grants. N8 PRP are delighted to announce that four Small Grants have been funded, with research due to start in April 2022. All four projects will investigate the policing of exploitation and abuse, and have the potential to...
Developments in Policing Domestic Abuse: Welcome Changes, Gaps Remain
Professor Nicole Westmarland discusses how domestic abuse policing changed in 2021, how to turn positive developments into real improvements, and what more needs to be done. I hesitated in writing the title of this article. As a natural optimist, I first of all wrote...
Hands, face, cyber space: How the pandemic is accelerating the growth of cybercrime
Steven Kemp, David Buil-Gil and Yongyu Zeng are the team behind ‘CyberUp – Analysing the Growth in Cybercrime during COVID-19 and Post Pandemic Trends’, funded by the Research Collaboration Fund for Research Staff of the University of Manchester, which explores...
Police powers, human rights, and legitimacy
N8PRP Academic Director, Professor Geoff Pearson, looks back on the policing of assembly during the pandemic, and forwards to the new Policing Bill and asks if we are facing a new crisis of legitimacy in the police. The Health Protection Regulations introduced during...
Cleveland Police joins the N8 Policing Research Partnership, enhancing the delivery of evidence-based policing in the North of England
Cleveland Police has joined the 11 other forces in the North of England to become a partner of the N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP). The N8 PRP combines policing expertise and academic rigour to deliver research and knowledge exchange that assists forces to...
Policing Innovation Forum 2021 – Partnering up against cyber crime
The Sixth N8 PRP Policing Innovation Forum continued on Thursday 27 May with a focused session on ‘Partnering Up Against Cybercrime’. The session was chaired by Justin Partridge, Postgraduate Researcher at Leeds University Business School and Visiting Fellow at the...
N8 PRP helps secure £2.5 million to investigate COVID impact on BAME communities
A £2.5 million bid supported by N8 PRP has been awarded to the Co-POWeR consortium, led by Professor Iyiola Solanke at the University of Leeds. Co-POWeR is a consortium from eight UK universities who have been funded by UKRI/ESRC to research the impact of COVID-19 and...
What works in police partnerships? – Policing Innovation Forum 2021
The sixth N8 PRP Policing Innovation Forum began on Wednesday with a lively and varied session on ‘What Works in Police Partnerships?’ The session was chaired by Professor Joanna Shapland, Edward Bramley Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Sheffield,...
