The University of Bath P-ACE brings together multi-disciplinary expertise to provide a fast-track, two-way knowledge mobilisation platform between police and academia. It will collaborate with a diversity of policing partners, both existing and new, in an innovative way to address policing challenges and provide an excellent and agile response to identified policing needs. Working collaboratively with policing, the University of Bath P-ACE will develop operationally useful tools and training and ensure the co-creation of new research and knowledge exchange projects that respond to the needs of modern policing.

ARIs and related specialisms

Analytics

• Data and AI ethics
• Data science, analytics and computational analysis
• Secure collection and analysis of sensitive data

Building and maintaining public trust

• Decision making
• Police legitimacy and procedural justice
• Public perception of policing
• Public perceptions of police use of technology, AI and data

Crime prevention

• Child sexual exploitation and abuse
• Custody
• Cyber, online and virtual reality safety
• Drugs
• Investigation & interviewing
• Risk assessment and mitigation
• Safe spaces
• Terrorism and extremism
• Youth justice and youth crime

Climate crisis

• Climate change
• Sustainability in policing

Personal safety

• Officer and staff wellbeing
• Uniform and wearable technology

Surveillance and sensing

• Interviewing of vulnerable populations
• Sensors, novel, remote and wearable