Meet the team

Our team members across the department and centre, covering professional services to academic staff.

Leadership Team

Dr Nick Caveney, Chair

Chief Superintendent at Hertfordshire Constabulary. Chairs the Centre partnership, including the Steering Group and the Membership Group of the 18 police agency partners.

Dr Jennifer Norman, Head of Department for Policing

Jennifer Norman is the Head of Department for Policing in the Faculty of Business & Law (FBL). She started this role in April 2022 and leads a team of interdisciplinary academics in the development of the policing programmes at the Open University that are delivered as part of the Police Education Qualification Framework.

Professor Clifford Stott, Academic Director

As the Centre’s lead, a significant part of Cliff's role is 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.

Support Team

Anita Aldridge, Project Manager

Project Manager. Manages Centre projects and oversees the research project portfolio.

Sarah Armstrong-Hallam, Senior Manager, Operations

Senior Manager, Operations

Adele Peters, Personal Assistant

PA to the Head of the Department for Policing.

Natalie Rankin, Team Secretary

Team Secretary. Involved in running the Centre office, has a particular focus on the Membership Group, the Centre’s research projects and conference activity

Academic Staff

Dr Sean Bell, Lecturer in Policing Organisation and Practice

Dr Keeley Duddin, Lecturer in Policing Organisation and Practice

Dr Helen Glasspoole-Bird, Research Fellow

Dr Ahmed Kadry, Lecturer in Policing Organisation and Practice

Jo Lambert, Teaching Director for Policing Organisation and Practice

Dr Shona Morrison, Lecturer in Policing Organisation and Practice

Dr Stephen Moss, Lecturer in Policing Organisation and Practice

Abigail Salter, Lecturer in Policing Organisation and Practice

Dr Helen Selby-Fell, Senior Lecturer in Policing Organisation and Practice

Kendal Wright, Lecturer in Policing Organisation and Practice

For all enquiries, please email us

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