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Continuing Professional Development Fortnight

CPD Fortnight takes place between November 11-22 with the College of Policing.

15th November 2019

More success for the Centre

Congratulations to Professor Jean Hartley, who has been awarded again for her continued success.

22nd October 2019

Research Excellence Awards 2019 - Best External Collaboration

We are pleased to announce that The Centre for Policing Research and Learning has been shortlisted for the Open University Research Excellence Awards under Best External Collaboration.

23rd September 2019

Going for Gold!

Open University Professor Jean Hartley received this year’s Medal for Research from the British Academy of Management (BAM) at its annual conference in Birmingham

12th September 2019

Annual conference OU Centre for Policing

The Centre for Policing Research and Learning Annual Conference - Learning from success, near miss and failure took place on 9-10 October 2019 at the Open University, Milton Keynes. The conference had an excellent line-up of authorative speakers and Powerpoint slide decks and AV clips are available.

1st August 2019

Transforming Police L&D Project launches second police learning and development survey

The Open University’s Centre for Police Research and Learning (CPRL) project team, working with their partners at MOPAC and survey specialists IFF, launched their planned second survey to look at the state of Learning and Development across police forces and agencies in England and Wales on Monday 25th June 2019

27th June 2019

Demand management report - now available

The report has been produced as a result of visits to 15 police forces from the centre membership.

29th April 2019

Showcasing virtual inclusion project tackling hate and extremism

Peter Bloom and his project team unveiled their new virtual reality project ‘Virtual Inclusion: Tackling Hate and Extremism Using Virtual Technology’ at the Google Showcase in London at the end of January.

15th February 2019

New blog: Do techniques for generating suspects contaminate procedures for identifying perpetrators?

Have a look the new blog article witten by our Director of Research: Professor Graham Pike.

14th February 2019

Managing people with the brain in mind: 5 March 2019

We are very pleased to be able to invite you to a workshop on 5th March 2019

7th February 2019
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