Funding for nine Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACEs) to improve connections between academic researchers and research users in policing and make it easier for users of research to identify the best research evidence, science, technologies and postgraduate training that the UK has to offer.
The P-ACEs will possess expertise in service line domains described in the Policing Areas of Research Interest.
Every P-ACE must demonstrate expertise in the following two required Areas of Research Interest (ARIs):
- Enduring challenges – building and maintaining public trust: delivering innovation that is proportionate, fair, ethical, legal, and supported by the public.
- Crime prevention: applying expertise to questions of how to prevent criminality and victimisation, as well as how to investigate offences that have occurred.
P-ACEs should also cover two or more of the following ARIs, and draw upon this coverage to shape some of their activity under the two required ARIs:
- Enduring challenges: responding to the climate crisis: ensuring policing is delivering a sustainable future for the UK
- Personal safety: the ability to protect the police workforce and members of the public
- Mobility: the ability to move to/from locations quickly to prevent, detect or respond, including to access difficult locations safely to maximise intelligence and minimise risk
- Identification and tracing: the ability to trace, attribute and confirm the identify of a person, location or activity to evidential levels
- Surveillance and sensing: the ability to lawfully monitor and collect data from people, activity, movements, behaviours, objects and data overtly and covertly
- Analytics: the ability to synthesise information to draw insights that can lead to actionable decisions
- Interconnectivity: the ability to pass information quickly, accurately and securely, and the ability to intercept or disrupt communications of others
ELIGIBILITY
Standard UKRI eligibility rules apply.
Applications can be from one research organisation or from multiple research organisations working in partnership.
VALUE AND DURATION
Projects should be three years in duration and the FEC can be up to £600,000.
KEY DATES
Information webinar: 16 October 2024
Deadline: 3 December 2024
Projects must start by 1 April 2025
Further details, including the intended aims, functions and design of P-ACEs, can be found below and on the opportunity webpage.