SIPR is a strategic collaboration between Scotland's universities, Police Scotland and The Scottish Police Authority.

Our mission is to support internationally excellent, multi-disciplinary policing research to enable evidence-informed policy & practice.

SIPR Annual Report 2023/24

Annual Report and Accounts for the academic year ending 31 August 2024

Our Annual Report for 2023/24 includes articles from academics from the consortium universities, as well as Practitioner Fellows, with particular emphasis this year, on research with real-world impact, including articles from our inaugural SIPR Impact Award winners.

SIPR Impact Awards 2025

18/02/2025

Nominations for SIPR Impact Awards 2025 now open!

SIPR Engagement Event & James Smart Memorial Lecture

05/02/2025

Mental Health –Responsive Research Fund – Award Announced

25/11/2024

Funding awarded for Responsive Research into Good Practice in the Transfer of Care.

SIPR ECR Grants Awarded

25/11/2024

Details of the three SIPR ECR Grants awarded in 2024.

Policing, Power and the Public | Professorial Lecture with Professor Liz Aston

21/11/2024

A public lecture by Liz Aston, Professor of Criminology at Edinburgh Napier University and Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research.

SIPR on BlueSky

18/11/2024

The Scottish Institute for Policing Research is now on BlueSky!