1. Making space for knowledge exchange and the development of evidence-based practice & practice-based evidence Nick Fyfe Director Scottish Institute for Policing Research

2. Context and characteristics A demand-led initiative… Collaborative and inter-disciplinary, drawing on strengths from HEIs across Scotland… Focused on new, relevant research and improving knowledge exchange to facilitate evidence-based contributions to policing policy and practice …

3. SIPR … A strategic collaboration between 12 of Scotland's universities and the Association of Chief Police Officers in Scotland (ACPOS) with investment from ACPOS, the Scottish Funding Council, and universities Strategic aims To undertake high quality, independent research of relevance to policing in Scotland; To engage in knowledge exchange so that research provides a robust evidence base to inform policing policy and practice; To develop policing research capacity in Scotland

4. Research and Knowledge Exchange: the interplay between the local and the global Scotland needs a strong policing research base to generate new knowledge and understanding of ‘what works’ in policing…. In an era of globalisation Scotland also needs a strong research base in policing in order to interpret knowledge about policing created elsewhere…

5. SIPR’s Structure A collaborative, network based approach providing a foundation for inter-disciplinary research Police Organization Evidence and Investigation Police-community relations

6. Building on excellence in Evidence & Investigation Lectureships in forensic science (forensic toxicology) and psychology (investigative interviewing); Post-doctoral research on the quality of eyewitness evidence from vulnerable witnesses. PhD studentships: Intelligence interface between police and community partners; Construction of facial composites by people with learning disabilities; Integration of investigation and forensic science in volume crime

7. Making space for Knowledge Exchange Seminar programme CPD Annual conference and lecture Website Visiting Professor Programme

8. Making space for knowledge exchange locally and globally… Collaborating with the Scottish Police College in the delivery of CPD… Practitioner Fellowship Programme…. Graduate Programme in Policing… Overseas Visiting Professor programme

9. Developing knowledge exchange locally and globally… Member of the ‘North Sea Collaboration for research on and with the police’; Leading the European Academy of Forensic Science and the European Society of Criminology Working Group on Policing; Developing a new European network of police practitioners

10. A strategy for developing evidence-based practice and practice-based evidence… Demand-led research and knowledge exchange activities; Developing a ‘culture of engagement’ between HEIs, practitioner and policy communities; Encouraging collaborative working and facilitating the co-production of knowledge.