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Following on from the success of the Operation Soteria Bluestone: Year 1 project with Avon and Somerset Police, work has now begun on Operation Soteria Bluestone: Year 2.

PCDA student from North Yorkshire Police tells us more about what it's like to study with the OU.

Dr Tom Cockcroft joins the Centre on secondment from Leeds Beckett University to work on the Tutor Constables project.

Dr Camilla Elphick tells us more about her new role and becoming a Hub member.

A ground-breaking project set up in 2020 to establish the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on domestic homicides has now published its first findings.

OU collaboration to edit a special issue of the high ranked journal specifically on the topic of what public management as an academic field can learn from studies of policing.

Mark Welton joins the Policing Organisation and Practice Team as a Lecturer and is part of the team designing and delivering the material for the PCDA

Abigail Salter tells us more about her experience as a Practice Tutor with the POP team.

Project Bluestone, working in partnership with academic experts and Avon and Somerset Constabulary, sought to improve the investigation and response to rape and serious sexual assault.

Lucy Bottomley recently completed a 3-month secondment to the Centre from Thames Valley Police working as a Senior Practitioner Fellow.