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 geoff.newiss@port.ac.uk.

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

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