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Emma Bildson joined the Centre on a 3-month secondment to work on a research project. Find out about her experience and the research project she worked on.

This report identifies improvements that can be made to help reduce demand and resource requirements to deal with young missing persons.

Senior police leaders were on campus in Milton Keynes for four days at the end of April. This follows CPRL winning a contract late last year to deliver an innovative programme for the College of Policing’s National Police Well-being Service (NPWS).

Blog post by Simon Hull on the metaverse and virtual reality in our lives.

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.