🚨 OPEN NOW: SIPR Responsive Research Fund (RRF) 🚨
The SIPR Responsive Research Fund call is now live. This is your opportunity to secure funding for timely, policy relevant research that responds directly to current policing challenges in Scotland. If you have a strong, actionable idea, we want to hear from you.
SIPR is inviting applications to its Responsive Research Fund (RRF): Evaluating Police Scotland’s New Community Policing Model and Approach, designed to support rapid, high quality research with clear routes to policy and practice impact.
💡 Why apply?
✔️ Direct relevance to policing policy and practice
✔️ Opportunity to work closely with policing partners
✔️ Funding to support responsive, impactful research
✔️ Clear pathway from evidence to action
👥 Who can apply?
Applications are welcome from researchers with knowledge of the Scottish context.
Priority will be given to projects involving staff from a SIPR member university.
Interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches are strongly encouraged.
📌 What we are looking for:
Projects that respond to live policing needs, deliver actionable insight, and can inform decision making within realistic timescales.
⏰ This is a responsive fund
If you’re interested, don’t wait.
👉 Read full details here
👉 Apply here
