Research-based postgraduate study

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
• 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

• 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
• 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?