Engagement Day

Dates
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Location
The Open University, Milton Keynes
Contact
Visit our Eventbrite page and register your space

This event provides a collaborative and welcoming environment for shared practice, reflection, and strategic direction-setting. Together, we will explore how our partnership can drive forward the next generation of research, innovation, and professional learning across UK policing.

Purpose and Focus

🔹 Looking Forward, connecting Research and Practice: Define the shared priorities and ambitions that will guide CPRL’s work in the decade ahead. Showcase emerging studies and innovations.

🔹 Strengthening Collaboration: Build connections between senior leaders, Evidence-Based Policing champions, analysts, and researchers, ensuring that knowledge and evidence translate into operational value.

The Day Will Include

🔹 Morning: Exploring forces’ challenges and research priorities, refocusing the CPRL direction with research that matters for CPRL members

🔹 Afternoon: The Art of the Possible â€“ showcasing innovation in training and development, including our XR Centre, Artificial Intelligence OL modules, AI research knowledge from research and translating it to practice

This event is designed for:

🔹 Senior leaders shaping strategic approaches to evidence-based policing

🔹 EBP Leads, Analysts, and Research Champions driving research and innovation within forces

🔹 Learning and Development professionals embedding evidence into professional practice 

The event is free and only for CPRL members. If you would like to discuss being a police force member please email [email protected]

News

Welcome Clifford as our new policing professor

Our new Professor of Policing and Research, whose role includes becoming Academic Director of our Centre for Policing Research and Learning (CPRL), is Clifford Stott MBE.


As the Centre’s lead, a significant part of his role will be working with academics across and beyond the Faculty, as well as CPRL’s police force partners, to generate research and learning relevant to theory, policy and practice.

2nd March 2026