Doing Research in Policing

Autumn 2016 P-ACE Development Events 15th October 09.00-14.00 Course: Designing Ethical Research in Policing (4 hours) Autumn 2016 P-ACE Development Events 15th October 9.00-14.00 Course: Doing Research in Policing Join us for this free, half-day in-person course designed to equip police practitioners and academics with the skills to drive evidence-informed practice. Doing Research in Policing provides a comprehensive, practical approach to getting started with designing and undertaking your policing-related research project. The course is designed for police practitioners (officers and staff) who are embarking on research projects who want guidance and practical advice. You’ll hear directly from both academics and from police practitioners themselves, learning from real-world examples of getting research off the ground. The course is also open to Early Career Researchers in academia. Please note, a separate course ‘Designing Ethical Research in Policing’ [here] takes place the afternoon before this course (afternoon of 14th October). For participants doing both courses and staying over the night of the 14th October, members of the PACE team will be delighted to join you for a drink after the first course. For advice on accommodation please contact [email protected]. Aims · To illustrate the variety of research conducted in policing · To explore the experiences of researchers who have conducted research in policing · To outline how to design pilots for research · To explore examples of potential police research and identify how they could be researched by police officers and police staff This course is brought to you by the University of Portsmouth’s Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (UoP P-ACE). UoP P-ACE provides a central gateway between policing and academia to co-produce the knowledge which shapes policing practice. In keeping with the University’s long history of working with policing, the Centre has a clear focus on building the necessary future skills for both police practitioners and researchers. Programme Time Title Speaker 0900 Arrival 0915 Welcome Introduction Professor Mark Button 0930 Doing Policing Research: An Academic perspective Professor Sarah Charman 1015 Doing Police Research: A Practitioner perspective Part 1 Richard Sinclair, City of London Police 1100 Coffee 1115 Doing Policing Research: A Former Practitioners Perspective Part 2 Dr Peter Neyroud, University of Cambridge and former Senior Police Officer 1200 Designing Pilots for Research Dr Alejandra De La Fuente 1230 Lunch 1300 Case Studies and Groupwork Professor Mark Button, Dr Alejandra De La Fuente, Professor Karen Shalev and Professor Becky Milne 1400 Close Speakers Professor Mark Button Mark Button is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime at the University of Portsmouth. He was founder and Director of the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Portsmouth between 2010-2022. Mark has written extensively on counter fraud, cybercrime, cyber-fraud and private policing issues, publishing many articles, chapters and completing eleven books, including Economic Crime: From Conception to Response; Private Policing and Cyber Frauds, Scams and their Victims. Some of the most significant research projects include a Home Office funded study on victims of computer misuse, leading the research on behalf of the National Fraud Authority and ACPO on fraud victims; the Department for International Development on fraud measurement, and an ESRC funded project on ageing and fraud in the UK and South Korea. Mark also worked for four years on the Government’s Annual Cyber Security Breaches Survey. Mark is also a Co-Founder and President of the International Society of Economic Criminology. Mark completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Exeter, his Masters at the University of Warwick and his Doctorate at the London School of Economics. Professor Sarah Charman Dr Sarah Charman is Professor of Criminology and Co-Director of the Policing Academic Centre of Excellence at the University of Portsmouth. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice and Senior Associate Fellow at the Police Foundation. She has researched and published widely on the sociology of policing and the policing organisation, most notably on policing cultures, police leadership, police recruits and police retention. Sarah has advised and worked with a number of government bodies and local and national policing organisations and is a regular contributor to both the national UK press and policing practitioner publications. Dr Alejandra De La Fuente Vilar Alejandra De La Fuente Vilar is a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Research Methods in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Portsmouth. She leads the UoP P-ACE Research Support Service. She is also a Research Fellow of ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre and Ombudsperson of the European Association of Psychology and Law. Alejandra earned a joint PhD in Psychology from Maastricht University (the Netherlands) and the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). Her dissertation received doctoral awards by the American Psychology and Law Society, and the European Association of Psychology and Law. She holds a BA Psychology by the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), a MSc Forensic Psychology from Maastricht University and she was a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia (Canada). Alejandra’s expertise is on eliciting information, aimed at improving evidence‑based investigative interviewing in police and security settings. Recent relevant policing work, and funding, includes collaborations with the UK Centre for Research and Evidence CREST on online elicitation contexts, with the FBI’s High‑Value Detainee Interrogation Group on time critical questioning, and on ethnicity and missing persons reporting interviews with the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre and Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary. Professor Becky Milne With over 200 publications (H-Index 54, with over 10,000 citations), her research as a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and as a Chartered Forensic Psychologist has concerned the best ways to access reliable testimony, especially from those deemed most vulnerable, by developing novel communication techniques. Jointly with practitioners, she has helped to create procedures that improve the quality of interviews of witnesses, victims, intelligence sources, and suspects. She works closely with the police (and other criminal justice organisations), creating practical solutions based on research, developing training, running interview courses, co-writing National Guidance (e.g. The Achieving Best Evidence Guidance, MoJ) and providing case advice (e.g. London Bridge terror attacks, War Crimes Team, Southport case, Sarah Everard case). She is the Founder and Director of the Centre of Forensic Interviewing, an internationally recognised centre of excellence. She has supervised over 30 Doctorate students to successful completion, the majority being practitioners within the CJS from all over the world (e.g. Australia, Brazil, Norway, UAE, USA). She was awarded the National accolade of Research Supervisor of the Year – Highly Commended by the Times Higher Education (December 2022). She is Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Police Science and Management. She was given the Tom Williamson award for her outstanding achievements in the field of investigative interviewing by NPCC in April 2009. In 2020 she was the sole awardee of the British Psychology Society Award for Excellence in Forensic Psychology Research.