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KE article in press

Wednesday, 28 September 2011 00:00 administrator
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Simon and Alistair have written a contribution to a special issue of the journal Police Practice and Research (ed Nick Fyfe) which is on police-academic collaborations. Our paper, which is an engagement with the academic KE literature in the context of our AHRC-funded KE collaboration with the Scottish police, brings Wenger's concept of 'communities of practice' to the fore in supporting thinking about the development of these kinds of collaborative knowledge-based ventures.
 

Evaluation, and sustainability

Friday, 07 October 2011 18:38 administrator
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As the funded term of this 3-year KE project draws to a close at the end of 2011, we have set an end-of-term evaluation process in motion, to capture the successes and failures of the project in a review document for posterity, and also with an eye on sustainability. The EPRPG has been such a successful forum for the police-academic exchange of ideas that we are now looking for ways to continue that major project output as we move to the post-funding phase. The evaluation will consider that question of the evolving format of these research group seminars and workshops, so that we can move forward in a way that is of most relevance for all involved.
 

European Society of Criminology

Friday, 07 October 2011 18:24 administrator
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In September, Alistair and Simon presented a paper at the annual meeting of the European Society of Criminology in Vilnius, Lithuania. The paper was titled 'Community policing as security ritual' and is currently being worked up for submission to peer reviewed policing journal. In it, we reflect on what we have come to see though our KE project as the Durkheimian expressive core of community policing. The paper was part of a panel we arranged titled 'Theoretical perspectives on community policing' in which we invited colleagues from Sweden, Belgium and Portugal to produce theoretical analyses of contemporary community policing practices in their jurisdiction. A rewarding comparative conference event!
 

Documents to check out in the download section

Friday, 07 September 2012 00:00 administrator
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The Edinburgh Police Research and Practice Group, a major output of this KE project, continues with its 2011 seminar and research workshop programme - see the flyers posted in the EPRPG section of the documents sidebar for details of the great speakers who have agreed to take part. We continue to cover core and classic themes, such as discrimination in stop and search policies, but are also pleased to capture emerging issues which are of highly contemporary and pressing policing and political relevance in Scotland. In the latest stream of sessions this is sectarianism, especially around sporting events in Scotland.

You'll have seen that there are two annual reports in the documents sidebar. Our three year project is coming to an end at the close of 2011, so our last annual report will be the concluding one to the funders, which we will publish here at a later date with the AHRC's permission. 

 

Sweden KE visit

Monday, 02 May 2011 00:00 administrator
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The team were in Stockholm in April at the invitation of the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention and the Stockholm County Police. The Stockholm police have been involved in the development of local policing offices and the piloting of teams of local police officers, in a programme which the National Council for Crime Prevention have been evaluating. We were fortunate to be able to spend several days with the evaluation team, in comparative discussion about the similarities and differences between the Swedish experience of 'local policing' and the Scottish experience of 'community policing'. The KE team gave a practical presentation on our project to the County police and also a more academic reflective paper to an audience of researchers from the National Council for Crime Prevention and academics from Swedish universities.
 
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