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COPR Members Secure £40 000 from Warwick Strategic Impact Fund
Professors Neil Stewart (Psychology), Jackie Hodgson (Law) and Carsten Maple (WMG) have secured £40 000 from Warwick Strategic Impact Fund for collaborative work with the Metropolitan Police Service. The funding is set to help develop a network of academics and active police staff and officers around three central research projects:
(a) Big Crime.
Aims to use social network big data to understand the psychosocial processes underlying the perception and impact of crime in the UK. The researchers will create a detailed psychological map of crime concern that will represent what people care about and how they feel about it, as evidenced by their everyday communication on the Internet.
(b) Perfect Cop.
Aims to understand the behavioural science of warranted police officers and police staff, and prepare randomised control trials to test interventions for improving wellbeing, increasing integrity, reducing risk.
(c) Cyber Crime.
Aims to link computer science and behavioural science approaches to crimes with a cyber component such as revenge porn, cyber stalking, or cyber bullying.
The overarching goal is to translate academic research into improvements in police operation and policy.