We were delighted to hold the SIPR Engagement Event featuring the annual James Smart Memorial Lecture which was delivered by T/DAC Dr Alison Heydari, Programme Director for the Police Race Action Plan.

The purpose of the Engagement Event was to provide an opportunity to bring academics, practitioners and policy makers across Scotland together to create opportunities to network, discuss research, and forge future collaborative opportunities.

This event provided an opportunity for people working at our SIPR member Universities and policing organisations to engage with our SIPR thematic Networks and meet the Associate Directors leading the Networks and researchers and practitioners undertaking and pioneering some of the key work related to each theme.

In addition to having stalls for each of the SIPR Networks, Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority, we held a “Meet the SIPR Researchers” opportunity in which we provided researchers and research teams from our 14 member universities who the opportunity to come and talk to present their work to delegates and attendees.