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 £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
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.
Our second call is now open for Knowledge Exchange and Impact awards, and Co-Produced research awards with a deadline of the 2 July 2026. Please use the links below to download the guidance and application documents or alternatively these can be requested by emailing policing@leeds.ac.uk:
TYP-ACE Flexible Fund Application Form
TYP-ACE Flexible Fund Application Guidance