News & Blogs

On 10 May 2023 the OU hosted the Driving Change day conference, entitled ‘Distracted driving: time to refocus’, co-funded by the OU and the Road Safety Trust.

Blog post by Fran Wright on her experience becoming a mum/parent as a police officer.

CPRL was well-represented at the recent conference of the International Research Society on Public Management, with a panel of papers on policing and public management and some presentations on co-production in public services, on public leadership and on valuing public innovation.

A brief summary of the discussions at the “Prevention in Partnership" Conference, co-hosted with Hertfordshire Constabulary and Hertfordshire County Council.

The Open University Business School has been recognised by AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) as one of its ‘Innovations That Inspire’ for the pioneering work by academics in its Centre for Policing Research and Learning (CPRL) and the Department for Policing Organisation and Practices (POP). 

This new publication co-edited by Dr Lara Frumkin, The Open University, Dr John Morrison, Maynooth University and Professor Andrew Silke, Cranfield University, considers a range of issues faced by those researching terrorism and counter terrorism.

Blog post by Emma Williams and Jennifer Norman on the Police Education Qualification Framework.

This study aimed to utilise systematic mapping techniques to assess existing empirical reviews of the evidence-base for primary prevention public health initiatives relevant to policing.

Blog post by Emma Williams, Linda Maguire, Arun Sondhi and Richard Harding sharing important insights about the ground-breaking project currently underway to transform the police response to Rape and Serious Sexual Offences.

Blog post by Shona Morrison about the exploitation of vulnerable girls in the context of drug dealing and organised crime groups, known in the UK as ‘County Lines’ drug dealing.