The Open University offers places for full and part time PhD study. Further details on how to apply for the PhD can be found at How to Apply | Research Degrees | Open University.
To support PhD study at the Open University we can provide advice to prospective students about how to develop a research proposal for the Open University to consider. Employees of CPRL Member Forces also have access to studentship funds. We can pay 50% of the fees for students to study at PhD level at the Open University. For more information look here or contact oupc@open.ac.uk for further advice.
CPRL studentship PhDs in progress
- Charlotte Gaskell - The effect of using an interpreter on the accuracy of witness accounts gathered from police interviews
- Phil Davies - The predictive potential of police operating models: How complex systems theory can support a data-driven simulation of police policy to improve efficiency
- Ashleigh Bennett - What works to increase female representation within specialist tactical roles
- Davin Parrott - The probabilistic assessment of intelligence and decision making
- Kimberley Kuhnert - Online dating initiated sexual offending
- James Senior - Serial stalking interventions
- Russ Hinton - Identifying digital investigations opportunities through the application of data science/data analytics
- Nicole Woodhall - Indecent Images of children in the UK: Has the current threat gone beyond policing’s capability to respond to it
Completed CPRL studentship PhDs
- Reuben Moreton - Developing and evaluating a training and competency framework for forensic facial identification
CPRL affiliated PhD research
- Dionysia Lali - Perceptions and expectations of the police when interacting with vulnerable people
- Kitty Chisholm - How can a short, cost effective, growth mindset intervention result in sustained improvements in behaviour management?
- Lara Kazeem - Information systems and bias within police forces
Completed CPRL affiliated PhD research
- Angela Sutton-Vane - History of police archiving practices
- Jane Roberts - Political leadership and the need to belong: An extension of theory and practice of political and place leadership through the lens of attachment theory
- Heather Barrett - In the context of multi-agency adoption and diffusion of a technology to enhance policing, can systems thinking techniques enhance or even replace, exisiting frameworks and models?