We are delighted to share SIPR’s Annual Report 2025/26, presented in a new, interactive digital format. Moving beyond the traditional PDF, this year’s report offers a more engaging and accessible way to explore our work, achievements and impact over the past year. Through videos, interactive features, research highlights and reflections from our partners, the report brings to life the people, partnerships and projects that are helping to shape evidence-informed policing in Scotland and beyond. From research and knowledge exchange to international collaboration and the development of SPACE, discover the breadth of SIPR’s activities and our ambitions for the year ahead.
Our mission is to support internationally excellent, multi-disciplinary policing research to enable evidence-informed policy & practice.
The Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR) is inviting applications for small research grants of up
to £3,000 from early career researchers (ECRs) based at SIPR member universities with the aim of initiating new
research projects or supporting existing projects.
For generations, the archetypal figure of the “Bobby on the beat” has been central to public understandings of police visibility in the UK.
Identifying best practices and learning outcomes from Police Scotland’s Define Pilot
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Annual Report and Accounts presented to the SIPR Board of Governance 11 September 2025
Find out about the SIPR’s mission, aims and 3-year plan objectives.
(SPACE) is a UKRI funded Centre of Excellence which builds on the Scottish Institute for Policing Research model. It is led by Edinburgh Napier University, the University of St Andrews, Glasgow Caledonian University, and the University of Edinburgh.
SIPR is providing £5,000 to support dissemination and impact efforts for policing research.
We have redeveloped and increased existing funding streams to create a more fit-for-purpose fund that will support a greater range of knowledge exchange and dissemination activities that can include any collaborative, creative endeavour that translates knowledge and research into impact in society and the economy.
20 years of SIPR. What’s next? We would like to hear your views!
For almost two decades, SIPR has been bringing together researchers, policing practitioners and partners to strengthen collaboration, share knowledge and support evidence-informed policing across Scotland.
As we approach our 20th anniversary, we’re not just looking back at what we’ve achieved – we’re looking ahead to what comes next.
And we’d like you to be part of that conversation.
We are delighted to share SIPR’s Annual Report 2025/26, presented in a new, interactive digital format. Moving beyond the traditional PDF, this year’s report offers a more engaging and accessible way to explore our work, achievements and impact over the past year. Through videos, interactive features, research highlights and reflections from our partners, the report brings to life the people, partnerships and projects that are helping to shape evidence-informed policing in Scotland and beyond. From research and knowledge exchange to international collaboration and the development of SPACE, discover the breadth of SIPR’s activities and our ambitions for the year ahead.
Our mission is to support internationally excellent, multi-disciplinary policing research to enable evidence-informed policy & practice.