1.06 Improving investigations through utilising technology, community and psychology

Academic team: Prof Graham Pike, Dr Chrisothea Herodotou, Dr Virginia Harrison, Dr Catriona Havard, Dr Hayley Ness, Dr Zoe Walkington, Dr Ailsa Strathie, Stephanie Richter, Charlotte Gaskell, Jane Birkett
Policing partners: Greater Manchester Police and Gwent Police
Status: Complete

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The project employed an RCT approach, which revealed that use of social media is likely to affect the visual evidence provided by an eyewitness. In addition, a qualitative approach was employed to explore the action orientation of small stories on the Facebook sites of two UK police forces.

The research recognises that increasingly, through the use of Facebook, ‘networked narratives’ are constructed collectively by multiple narrators (both the formal police posts, and the comments of the public).

Given the ability of narrative to both ‘tell’ and ‘sell’ versions of events, and of social media to perform ‘identity in interaction’ this research considered how the police forces are positioned, and repositioned by this social media activity.

Planned outputs

Title	Outputs type	Lead academic	Year
Entitlement to tell on police facebook sites	Journal	Walkington, Z	2019
Are you talking to me? How identity is constructed on police-owned facebook sites	Journal	Walkington, Z	2018
Are you talking to me? A qualitative study of Facebook use by two police forces	Presentation	Walkington, Z	2017
A content analysis of police Facebook pages	Presentation	Strathie, A	2017
Social media in citizen enquiry and public engagement	Presentation	Pike, G	2017
Engaging with social media and citizen enquiry	Full Report	Pike, G	2017
Improving investigations through utilising technology, community and psychology	Executive summary	Pike, G	2017
Engaging with social media: policing and citizen enquiry	Executive summary	Pike, G	2017
Identification evidence	Book Chapter	Pike, G	2017
The experiment in criminology	Presentation	Pike, G	2017
Social media and citizen enquiry	Presentation	Ness, H	2016
Social media and citizen inquiry	Presentation	Havard, C	2016
Pracademia - how a short but sweet collaboration panned out	Blog	Birkett, J	2016
Pracademia - a world of opportunity	Blog	Birkett, J	2016
Pracademia - a complex ethical world	Blog	Birkett, J	2016
Police practitioner-researcher ethics	Paper	Birkett, J	2016
Police practitioner-researcher checklist	Paper	Birkett, J	2016