1. Faculty of Social Sciences
  2. School of Law
  3. Research and expertise
  4. The Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence
  5. TYP-ACE Flexible Fund

TYP-ACE Flexible Fund

TYP-ACE’s Flexible Fund will support agile, impact-oriented activities through a competitive application process.  

Objectives 

The aim of TYP-ACE is to improve connections between academic researchers and policing, and the flexible fund aims to offer funding to academics in 2 key ways to promote this:   

  • Make key insights, evidence and outputs accessible to policing through events, toolkits, guidance and resources. 
  • Respond to needs and questions raised by policing and work collaboratively to develop new research and knowledge exchange activities. 

Award types 

  • Knowledge exchange and Impact activities such as workshops, events, webpages, toolkits, animations, and materials. 
    Typical award: up to £3,000 (exceptional cases up to £5,000).  
  • Co-produced research projects between academics and partners.
    Typical award: up to £15,000 (exceptional cases up to £20,000). We expect projects to run for 6-9 months.   

Project partners 

All applications must demonstrate a clear need and pathway to impact through letters of support or confirmed project partners. It is expected that in many cases, partners will be policing agencies; however, projects may also involve third-sector organisations, community groups, or other relevant organisations. Applicants with a strong idea but without an identified partner are encouraged to contact policing@leeds.ac.uk to discuss their proposal.  

Project alignment 

We aim to fund a balanced portfolio that includes innovative research and knowledge-exchange activities aligned to TYP-ACE Areas of Research Interest (ARIs), and projects that address established policing challenges. All applicants must identify alignment with one or more TYP-ACE ARIs and explicitly justify this within their proposal. 

At TYP-ACE our focus is on four of the Policing Areas of Interest (ARI): 

  • Building and Maintaining Public Trust in Policing 
  • Crime Prevention 
  • Climate Crisis  
  • Data Analytics  

The NPCC Policing Problem Book is a national document produced by the National Police Chiefs’ Council that outlines 13 major structural and operational challenges facing policing in the coming years. Applicants are not required to align their projects to the Problem Book. However, it may provide useful context for situating or framing proposed work, particularly where it relates to nationally recognised policing priorities. 

Applicants are encouraged to propose creative and ambitious activities while demonstrating a clear understanding of how their work will contribute to safer, fairer, and more effective policing.