TYP-ACE’s Flexible Fund will support agile, impact-oriented activities through a competitive application process.
Objectives
The aim of TYP-ACE is to improve connections between academic researchers and policing, and the flexible fund aims to offer funding to academics in 2 key ways to promote this:
- Make key insights, evidence and outputs accessible to policing through events, toolkits, guidance and resources.
- Respond to needs and questions raised by policing and work collaboratively to develop new research and knowledge exchange activities.
Call for applications October 2026
Two funding calls have been completed so far, with awards made in March and July 2026 totalling £60k. For this third call, we are inviting applications for larger awards.
Following discussions with faculties across both institutions, applicants may, for the first time, include staff time and overheads in their budgets.
Please see the documents at the bottom of the page for full guidance, FAQs and for the application forms.
Deadline for submission of applications will be the 14th January 2027
Award types
- Co-produced research projects
We expect projects to be co-designed and co-produced with partners, to provide evidence about effective preventative approaches, evaluate innovative existing policing practices, or identify new opportunities.
Typical award: up to £30,000. We expect projects to run for 6-9 months. - Knowledge exchange and Impact
activities such as workshops, events, webpages, toolkits, animations, and materials, enabling dissemination of outputs to a new audience or creating tools for use by policing or in the community based on existing research
Typical award: up to £3,000 (exceptional cases up to £5,000).
Project partners
All applications must demonstrate a clear need and pathway to impact through letters of support or confirmed project partners. It is expected that in many cases, partners will be policing agencies; however, projects may also involve third-sector organisations, community groups, or other relevant organisations. Applicants with a strong idea but without an identified partner are encouraged to contact [email protected] to discuss their proposal.
Project alignment
We aim to fund a balanced portfolio that includes innovative research and knowledge-exchange activities aligned to TYP-ACE Areas of Research Interest (ARIs), and projects that address established policing challenges. All applicants must identify alignment with one or more TYP-ACE ARIs and explicitly justify this within their proposal.
At TYP-ACE our focus is on four of the Policing Areas of Interest (ARI):
Applicants are encouraged to propose creative and ambitious activities while demonstrating a clear understanding of how their work will contribute to safer, fairer, and more effective policing.
Please use the links below to download the guidance and application documents or alternatively these can be requested by emailing [email protected]
TYP-ACE Flexible Fund Application Guidance
TYP-ACE Application form (Word doc)
TYP-ACE Application Budget form (Excel)
FAQ (word doc)