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As part of our ongoing expansion we are looking to appoint two permanent Senior Lectureships in Policing Organisation and Practice. Deadline 28.01.2020

North Yorkshire Police and the OU have announced a new collaboration delivering specialist education for police officers from July 2020.

CPD Fortnight takes place between November 11-22 with the College of Policing.

The Centre for Policing Research and Learning has been invited to guest edit a themed issue of the journal: Public Money and Management with papers arising from the recent Centre for Policing Research and Learning Annual Conference where the theme of ' Learning from success, near miss and failure' was explored in: policing, local government, health and other sectors. The editorial team is Centre academics: Jean Hartley, Richard Harding, Nicky Miller and Zoe Walkington, and Director of People at Thames Valley Police, Steven Chase.

Congratulations to Professor Jean Hartley, who has been awarded again for her continued success.

Catch up with the final episode to find out which investigations led to a radical overhaul of police powers.

We are pleased to announce that The Centre for Policing Research and Learning has been shortlisted for the Open University Research Excellence Awards under Best External Collaboration.

The Centres Director of Research: Professor Graham Pike and other Open University Academics have created a series of videos for The BBC.

The videos can be found on this link.

Open University Professor Jean Hartley received this year’s Medal for Research from the British Academy of Management (BAM) at its annual conference in Birmingham

The Centre for Policing Research and Learning Annual Conference - Learning from success, near miss and failure took place on 9-10 October 2019 at the Open University, Milton Keynes. The conference had an excellent line-up of authorative speakers and Powerpoint slide decks and AV clips are available on previous events page.