The Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence generates, synthesises, and shares research to support police in addressing complex issues. TYP-ACE provides expertise in the following four key areas:
Please click on each area to learn more about the related research and projects taking place.
Crime Prevention: Including, but not limited to, Violence Against Women and Girls and other forms of gender-based violence; youth crime and violence; modern slavery; criminal exploitation of children and vulnerable adults; and safer streets and public spaces.
Public Trust: Particularly in relation to minimum policing standards, public perceptions, organisational culture, and the experiences of marginalised and minoritised communities.
Data Analytics: Particularly multi-agency data linkage and analysis, spatio-temporal crime analysis and prediction, and the use of natural language processing and other AI-driven methods.
Climate Change: Including the impact of extreme weather and environmental change on emergency preparedness and response, vulnerability and community resilience, and sustainability and net-zero considerations.
TYP-ACE builds upon the success of the ESRC Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre in its work to embed preventative and problem-solving approaches as a key part of policing, as well as the internationally renowned work of existing centres of excellence across both institutions, including the Leeds Institute for Data Analytics (LIDA) and Priestley Centre for Climate Futures at Leeds and the York Environmental Sustainability Institute (YESI) and Centre for Reviews and Dissemination at York.
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