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Spycops, Subversion & Collateral Intrusion
COPR/WLS Research Seminar - Event Registration Form
Spycops, Subversion & Collateral Intrusion
Christopher Brian, The Undercover Research Group
- Friday 31 January 2025
- 13:00-14:30
- The Junction - Room JX2.02
More info and register here
New Blog: The #spycops scandal: Subversion and Collateral Intrusions
By Chris Brian
Between 1968 and 2010, 144 undercover officers were deployed into groups, filing 1000s of reports on their activities and intertwining themselves, often damagingly, into the lives of political activists.
The Undercover Policing Inquiry has revealed that of the thousands of now-published Special Branch reports, only a few contained information relevant to the undercover unit Special Demonstration Squad’s (SDS) stated primary objective: controlling public order. READ NOW
COPR Early Career Researcher Symposium
Doing Police Research: Approaches and Challenges - A Showcase of Early Career Research
- Date: Tuesday 29th April 2025
- Time: 10:30am –5:00pm
- Venue: The University of Warwick
- Cost: Free of charge
REGISTER ATTENDANCE & SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT HERE
Funding available to support Warwick researchers
The Centre for Operational Police Research (COPR) currently has funding available to support Warwick researchers who are conducting interdisciplinary police-related research.
If you're a Warwick researcher and have a small pilot project, workshop, panel discussion, seminar series, impact activity you wish to launch between now and 30th July 2024, and require a small amount of financial support (up to £1,000), please apply!
The fund is also available to support pump-priming activities such as research assistance for literature reviews, pilot projects, uniting potential collaborators, or co-creation with non-academic stakeholders.
The fund is available to support Warwick researchers at all stages in their career, including PhD students.
If you would like to apply for funding, please complete the online form briefly outlining your project objectives, description of activities, intended outputs, timeline and brief budget.
There is a rolling deadline for these applications until the money runs out! The project must be completed and all funds spent by the 30th of July 2024.
Dimensions of Police Research, From Borders to Boroughs: A Showcase of Early Career Research
Date: 10th May 2024
Time: 10:00am - 5:00pm
Venue: Social Sciences Building S0.20, The University of Warwick
There are few environments and institutions as simultaneously important and reproachful of being studied as custody and the police. Whilst it is vital that we study these spaces, actors, procedures and associated phenomena it is undoubtedly hard to do so. This is especially true on a global scale when we consider facilities like refugee detention centres and the policing of borders.
The advertised day-event, hosted by the University of Warwick on the 10th May 2024, is precluded on this idea that our shared contribution to this area of knowledge is essential to the maintenance of conceptions of justice and transparency which underpin the legitimacy of states and punishment globally
COPR & CJC Seminar: Policing & Trauma
In-person attendees are warmly invited to join us for lunch afterwards (please specify dietary requirements in your RSVP email if attending in person).
Speakers:
- Dr. Karen Lumsden (University of Aberdeen) & Dr. Alex Black (Sheffield Hallam University)
- Inspector Tony Eustace (West Midlands Police) & Sergeant Matt Manwaring (West Midlands Police).
Does your research connect with policing?
The Centre for Operational Police ResearchLink opens in a new window (COPR) is an interdisciplinary centre which unites researchers from across the University.
COPR will be holding a lunch for all Warwick colleagues interested in or conducting police-related research on Tuesday 18th July 2023 from 12:00 - 14:00 (location TBC).
Ethnographies with the Police: Workshop on Intersectionality and Ethnographic Research
- When: Friday 7th July 2023
- Where: Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
This workshop/roundtable brings together a collective of scholars who are actively involved in policing research, with a particular focus on gender, sexuality, and the intricate relationships between humans, animals, and the environment. The event aims to foster a supportive community and provide a platform for researchers who employ embodiment and ethnographic methodologies in their investigative approaches.
Rethinking policing: understanding the institution, embedding change in police practice
When: 11:00 - 14;00 Thursday 15th June 2023
Where: S0.17
In the context both of individual instances of police brutality and malpractice, and evidence of systemic racism and discrimination in the recent Casey Review, public trust and confidence in the UK police is at a historic low.
In this event, we ask how we might understand policing – as an institution, as a ‘culture’, as a set of practices; and how we might seek to effect and embed change in policing practice going forward.