Hosted by EMPAC, the SEBP’s sixth annual conference followed the theme ‘Creating a culture of curiosity: Why failure is a good thing’ and was attended by a sold-out delegation of over 200 key figures from the world of policing and academia. The event provided an opportunity to advance shared objectives of…
EMPAC fellows have set hard to work after their Christmas Welcome Event. Fellows gathered at the Policing Institute at the University of Derby on the 10th January for a workshop introduction to research and evidence based practice. EMPAC Fellows have a very diverse set of backgrounds. They range across…
Earlier this week I attended a workshop involving representatives from across the police-academic collaborations funded by the College of Policing, Home Office and HEFCE Police Knowledge Fund. Hosted by the University of York which leads ‘Connect, Evidence Based Policing’, this workshop brought together academics, police officers and police staff building…
EMPAC welcomes contributions from academics and practitioners (and joint ones) about policing research. Here, we’re grateful to Professor of Criminology, Simon Holdaway, for submitting a discussion piece about Evidence Based Policing and its meaning(s). As with all blogs we feature, the purpose is to provoke healthy discussion so we look forward…
The purpose of this piece is to provoke discussion and help accelerate the evolution of policing research, so we look forward to your views! Perhaps firstly, to set a few fundamental points down before discussing the pivotal importance of impact in policing research. These fundamentals are of importance because, if…
The University of Lincoln hosted a joint EMPAC / SEBP event with Lincolnshire Police on 31st October, with a sell out attendance, including chief officers and Police and Crime Commissioners. This hugely significant event will now operate as a trailblazer to influence wider change across the EMPAC region. Professor Matthew…
The Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University is holding a one day symposium on Wednesday 16th November 2016. The focus is on ‘Policing violence: risk and resources’. The purpose is to share policing-related research conducted by researchers from across Loughborough University. Sessions will include effective understanding, and policing, of violence applied to…
Research, Innovation and Enterprise are central to what policing in the East Midlands is all about. EMSOU has been hailed as the best example of collaborative working of its type in the UK. Now, EMPAC is actively researching in several areas to discover new ways of doing things or responding…
Whilst meeting people in our region one question that has popped up is – what’s the difference between ‘knowledge’ (as in the Police knowledge Fund), ‘evidence’ (as in EBP / evidence based policing) and ‘research’. What’s in a name? Perhaps we shouldn’t get bogged down in labels – but understandably…
Dave Hill, EMPAC’s Programme Director, is a key note speaker at a national conference on coaching. Dave will be presenting on new leadership paradigms, based on his extensive background in psychology and NLP, and his new PhD research on leadership in complex systems. This is the 14th Anniversary Conference for…