Knowledge into Practice

The Centre’s range of innovative knowledge exchange activities are designed to maximise learning between members of the police, between police organisations, and between the police and academics. Activities include:

• Evidence cafés designed as informal opportunities for front-line police to explore how research evidence in particular fields might help their work and what might be some of the barriers or problems in using it in practice.
• Regular conferences and workshops that are designed to address policing national priorities within government, often with input from visiting international scholars.
• Secondment of police officers and staff as Senior Practitioner Fellowships enables police to work in research teams to both contribute to the research and reinforce its use back in their police force.

Outputs Library

Evidence Cafés

Evidence Cafés are characterised by the ‘knowledge exchange’ (not presentation!) between academics and frontline police officers. They may be facilitated by an Evidence-Based Champion from the host force.