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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.
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24 September 2024
A new funding opportunity: Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACEs)

The NPCC and UKRI are funding the creation of up to nine Policing Academic Centres of Excellence (P-ACEs) to help improve connections between policing and academic researchers…
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16 September 2024
Launch of Policing Tomorrow

The OPCSA are thrilled to introduce our new magazine, Policing Tomorrow. Dedicated to the latest advancements in science and technology within the policing sector.
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14 August 2024
Strategic Workshop to Develop a Science and Technology Profession for Policing

The Office of the Police Chief Scientific Adviser are inviting senior academics to attend a free workshop on the 9th of October 2024 to support the development of an S&T Profession in Policing to inspire the current and…
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31 July 2024
AHRC Responsive mode: Curiosity award: round five

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) are funding flexible awards to fund fundamental research that leads to new research agendas, networking activity and idea generation…
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12 July 2024
Found - an exploration of the potential future of policing

In collaboration with the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, the Office of the Police Chief Scientific Adviser have developed a speculative video to show the potential future of policing within the next 30 years.
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20 June 2024
Home Office Contracts for Innovation - Knife Detection Technologies - Phase 1

The Home Office is running a Contracts for Innovation competition to develop systems capable of automatically detecting knives concealed on a person, at a distance, to be used by police forces.