N8 Policing Research Partnership announces new three-year phase
The University of Leeds is proud to continue as part of the multi-institutional partnership.
The N8 Policing Research Partnership (N8 PRP) has announced a new three-year phase, starting in October 2024.
Established in 2013, N8 PRP’s mission is to advance policing research and practice through collaboration between research-intensive universities, police forces, Police and Crime Commissioners, government, and other partners working in policing policy, governance, and practice.
The need for impactful research within policing is clear, with Serena Kennedy KPM, saying in her foreword to the N8 PRP 2023 Annual Report:
Policing must get better at identifying where there is an absence of research and evidence and then work with academia and partnerships such as N8 PRP to develop the research and act on the evidence.
Now in its third phase, the N8 PRP will build on the considerable successes of the past two phases, and increase support for knowledge exchange and collaborative research, including the creation of a Northern Evidence-Based Policing Hub which aims to drive transformational change in evidence-based policing.
Members of the Centre for Criminal Justice Studies played a key role in the formation of the N8PRP and continue to be actively engaged in this network.
Examples of work supported by the N8 PRP include Associate Professor Laura Bainbridge’s research into 'cuckooing' victimisation, and Professor Stuart Lister, Dan Burn (Leeds City Council) and Professor Jose Pina-Sánchez’s research into body-worn cameras. Collaborations funded by the N8PRP have led to further research, including the work led by Dr Sam Lewis and Cumbria Constabulary on rural domestic abuse.
The N8 PRP has also provided bursaries for MSc Criminal Justice and Criminology students.
The University of Leeds is proud to remain a partner of the N8 PRP and to continue supporting collaborative research and knowledge exchange to tackle the policing challenges of the 21st Century.
