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Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research

13/05/2025

Abertay University is offering a fully funded PhD studentship titled:”Trauma and Technology: Identifying Best Practice for Video-Recorded Interviews (VRIs) with Victims of Sexual Crimes.”

13/05/2025

SIPR and SCCJR Joint Residential Writing Retreat

09/05/2025

Edinburgh Napier University to lead new Scottish Policing Academic Centre of Excellence

07/05/2025

New Report Published Today

24/04/2025

Press release marking the publication of a major new report: Implementing Anti-Racism in Policing.

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!

SIPR IS RECRUITING

11/11/2024

Applications open for Communication and Dissemination Officer!

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