Research Opportunities

Competition for SIPR Post-Doctoral Research Assistant (PDRA)

Along with PhD studentships, the PDRA positions are a crucial part of SIPR's strategy for delivering relevant research on policing and building the research capacity and critical mass of the networks. There is one PDRA position available per network and each PDRA is of three years duration.

The Scottish Institute for Policing Research awarded the following PDRAs:

Network: Police Organization
Project Title: Local policing in Scotland
Lead HEI and contact: University of the West of Scotland, Dr Kenneth B Scott (kenneth.scott@uws.ac.uk)
(Other HEIs involved: RGU)

Network: Evidence & Investigation
Project Title: Obtaining best evidence from young eyewitnesses
Lead HEI and contact: University of Aberdeen, Professor Rhona Flin (r.flin@abdn.ac.uk)
(Other HEIs involved: Abertay)
Further details are available as a pdf file

Network: Police and Community Relations
Project Title: Collective radicalization and police-community encounters
Lead HEI and contact: University of St Andrews, Dr Anja Eller (anja.eller@st-andrews.ac.uk)
(Other HEIs involved: Abertay and University of Dundee)

 

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