Research Opportunities

The Scottish Institute for Policing Research awarded the following SIPR PhD studentship which commenced in 2009.

Network: Police-Community Relations
Project Title: The Inverclyde Initiative evaluation - situating policing policy in a community planning context
Lead HEI and contact: Glasgow Caledonian University, Dr Liz Frondigoun (liz.frondigoun@gcal.ac.uk)

The Scottish Institute for Policing Research awarded the following SIPR PhD studentships which commenced in 2008.

Network: Police-Community Relations
Project Title: Policing and Racial and Ethnic Diversity: a local case study
Lead HEI and contact: Glasgow Caledonian University, Dr Liz Frondigoun (liz.frondigoun@gcal.ac.uk)

Network: Police-Community Relations
Project Title: Policing and Democracy in Scotland and Northern Ireland
Lead HEI and contact: University of Edinburgh, Andy Aitchison
(andy.aitchison@ed.ac.uk)

Network: Evidence & Investigation
Project Title: Enhanced, Verifiable and Auditable Intelligence Interface between the Scottish Police and Community Partners with Time Critical Intelligence Information
Lead HEI and contact: Napier University, Prof William Buchanan (w.buchanan@napier.ac.uk)

Network: Police Organization
Project Title: Scottish based anti - money laundering operations: police inter-agency co-operation across jurisdictions.
Lead HEI and contact: University of Abertay, Dr. Maria O'Neill (m.oneill@abertay.ac.uk)
(Other HEIs involved: University of the West of Scotland)

The Scottish Institute for Policing Research awarded the following PhD studentships, which commenced in Autumn 2007:

Network: Police-Community Relations
Project Title: Policing the night-time economy in Scotland
Lead HEI and contact: University of Dundee, Professor Nick Fyfe (n.r.fyfe@dundee.ac.uk)

Network: Evidence & Investigation
Project Title: People with a learning disability and the construction of facial composites
Lead HEI and contact: University of Abertay, Dr Derek Carson (d.carson@tay.ac.uk)
(Other HEIs involved: Stirling)

Network: Evidence & Investigation
Project Title: The integration of investigation and forensic science in volume crime
Lead HEI and contact: Strathclyde, Professor Jim Fraser (jim.fraser@strath.ac.uk)
(Other HEIs involved: University of the West of Scotland)

Network: Police Organization
Project Title: Resilience and well-being in a Scottish Police force
Lead HEI and contact: Robert Gordon University, Professor David Alexander (d.a.alexander@rgu.ac.uk)

ESRC/Scottish Government Studentships

The Management Science Department at Strathclyde Business School in Glasgow has been awarded an ESRC/Scottish Government Collaborative Doctoral Studentship to undertake a Comparative Study of Scottish Police Boards.

The PhD is being supervised by Mik Wisniewski at Strathclyde and Professor Nick Fyfe at Dundee University and Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research.