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1 October 2025
NPCC Launches Nine Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACE)

Today, Wednesday 1 October, marks the official launch of nine Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACE) in partnership with UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
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29 September 2025
Police STAR Fund 26/27 – EOI now open

The Police STAR Fund 26/27 is now open for EOI submission. What is the Police STAR Fund call looking for? The Police STAR Fund 26/27 call is seeking to fund force and regional innovation and research across science…
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2 September 2025
Sign up to the National Police Chiefs' Council Innovation and Digital Summit 2025: 50 days to go!

Taking place between 20-22 October at the ACC Liverpool, this landmark event is a unique opportunity to bring together policing and industry, to build connections…
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20 August 2025
NABS+ Commissioning Call Now Open

The NABS+ Commissioning Call is now open! The call supports small-scale projects addressing emerging challenges such as AI, online harms, and information manipulation. 
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27 May 2025
Issue 2 of Policing Tomorrow out now

The Police Chief Scientific Adviser has published the second edition of Policing Tomorrow, a magazine designed to allow a broad audience to learn about the contributions of science and technology to policing.   …  
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12 May 2025
The Data Science Summer School 2024

Last year, the OPCSA piloted a partnership between Lancashire Constabulary and Lancaster University to create a Data Science Summer School for master's students. 
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16 January 2025
Applications open for the Security and Policing Academic Innovation Award

The Home Office is sponsoring an innovation award for the UK academic research community at Security and Policing.
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8 January 2025
New job opportunity - secondment to Home Office Science Innovation Technology Delivery team

The Science Innovation Technology (SIT) Delivery team in the Home Office Science Directorate are looking for a Senior Police Advisor. As the Senior Police Adviser, you will supervise a small…
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23 December 2024
Royal Academic of Engineering - UK Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

The Government Office for Science offers UK Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships to outstanding early career science or engineering researchers.
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5 December 2024
New publication: an evidence-based plan for addressing childhood vulnerability, crime and justice

The eleventh report in a year-long series – produced jointly by Child of the North and the Centre for Young Lives…
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14 October 2024
University Innovation Concept 2024 Challenge Statements (UIC) AI and Technical Research

The Counter Terrorism Research Lab (CTRL) has launched the University Innovation Concept (UIC) 2024.
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9 October 2024
Foundation Future Leaders 2025 - Applications Now Open

The Foundation Future Leaders Programme, launched in 2019, seeks to support the leaders of tomorrow in building the links and knowledge that they will need.
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6 October 2024
Police STAR Fund 25/26 – EOI now open

Funded by policing, for policing. The Police STAR Fund 25/26 call is seeking to fund force and regional innovation and research across science, technology, analysis, and research.