Making space for knowledge exchange and the development of evidence-based practice & practice-based evidence

Nick Fyfe

Director

Scottish Institute for Policing Research

Context and characteristics

• A demand-led initiative…• Collaborative and inter-disciplinary,

drawing on strengths from HEIs across Scotland…

• Focused on new, relevant research and improving knowledge exchange to facilitate evidence-based contributions to policing policy and practice …

SIPR …

A strategic collaboration between 12 of Scotland's universities and the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS) with investment from ACPOS, the Scottish Funding Council, and universities

Strategic aims•To undertake high quality, independent research of relevance to policing in Scotland;•To engage in knowledge exchange so that research provides a robust evidence base to inform policing policy and practice;•To develop policing research capacity in Scotland

Research and Knowledge Exchange: the interplay between the local and the global

• Scotland needs a strong policing research base to generate new knowledge and understanding of ‘what works’ in policing….

• In an era of globalisation Scotland also needs a strong research base in policing in order to interpret knowledge about policing created elsewhere…

SIPR’s Structure

A collaborative, network based approach

providing a foundation

for inter-disciplinary research

Police Organization

Evidence and Investigation

Police-community relations

Building on excellence in Evidence & Investigation

• Lectureships in forensic science (forensic toxicology) and psychology (investigative interviewing);

• Post-doctoral research on the quality of eyewitness evidence from vulnerable witnesses.

• PhD studentships:• Intelligence interface

between police and community partners;

• Construction of facial composites by people with learning disabilities;

• Integration of investigation and forensic science in volume crime

Making space for Knowledge Exchange

Seminar programme

CPD

Annual conference and lecture

Website Visiting Professor Programme

Making space for knowledge exchange locally and globally…

• Collaborating with the Scottish Police College in the delivery of CPD…

• Practitioner Fellowship Programme….

• Graduate Programme in Policing…

• Overseas Visiting Professor programme

Developing knowledge exchange locally and globally…

• Member of the ‘North Sea Collaboration for research on and with the police’;

• Leading the European Academy of Forensic Science and the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Policing;

• Developing a new European network of police practitioners

A strategy for developing evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence…

• Demand-led research and knowledge exchange activities;

• Developing a ‘culture of engagement’ between HEIs, practitioner and policy communities;

• Encouraging collaborative working and facilitating the co-production of knowledge.