Theme 3: Leadership, management and organisation

LIVE PROJECTS

3.18 Research into Practice and Practice in Research? Exploring the role and impact of CPRL in evidence based policing

Exploring and understanding how research evidence from the Centre for Policing Research and Learning is used and knowledge mobilised to improve policing practice

3.21 Leadership with political astuteness: The dynamics of police working with politicians

This project aims to understand better how senior police officers approach working with elected politicians.

3.30 Building the evidence base for effective tutoring of police recruits (Phase 2)

This project seeks to make sense of a key factor influencing the success of both the Uplift programme and the PEQF - the Tutor Constable role.

3.31 Operation Soteria Bluestone (year 2)

This project seeks to explore the relationship between the training delivered for those involved in RASSO investigations, and how these are identified, their learning experiences and officer wellbeing.

COMPLETED PROJECTS

3.29 Building an onboarding map for police forces in England and Wales

This project aims to deliver a new onboarding map for new recruits joining the police service.

3.28 Public innovation literature review

To undertake a systematic literature review and synthesis of the academic literature, along with some policy literature, on the evidence about the design, processes and outcomes of public innovation.

3.27 Building the evidence base for effective tutoring of police recruits

This project seeks to make sense of a key factor influencing the success of both the Uplift programme and the PEQF – the Tutor Constable role.

3.26 Operation Soteria Bluestone

3.25 A narrative review of the literature of the effect of younger police officers in service and age

This project seeks to explore the limited, police specific research in this area and any relevant literature that exists outside of the policing arena.

3.24 Embedding officer learning and wellbeing in rape and serious sexual offences cases (Bluestone 1)

Exploring the relationship between the learning delivered for rape investigators, their developmental requirements and officer wellbeing.

3.23 Policing uncertainty: Decisions and action in a national emergency

The aim of the research is to identify what may be learned from the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic.

3.22 Organizational learning in action: 2020-2021

This project aims to embed the key findings of the OU's action research project on Organisational Learning (3.07).

3.20 Mobilising for change in police learning and development

This project builds on the work of the completed project 'Implementing the transformation of police learning and development'. This project aims to build on the learning, outcomes and momentum generated in the earlier work's products.

3.19 Understanding culture at Milton Keynes local policing area (LPA)

This project looks to understand the culture of the Milton Keynes workforce, so that they can better understand its strengths and weaknesses, and how it can best be delivered for their policing mission.

3.17 Visible policing: the affective properties of police buildings images and material culture

Examines the nature and impact of visible policing through activities and material practices that shapes perceptions of police

3.16 Implementing the transformation of police learning and development

This is a major undertaking so the project has been designed as action research – aiming to both understand but also work collaboratively with forces and national agencies to improve the training, learning and development function in police services, both strategically and operationally.