Our Research

Our vision is to deliver excellence in applied research for policing and security. Our approach blends evidence-based research, policy and practice with the development of tangible solutions that have a real-world impact on the security domain.

Books

International Security Management: New Solutions to Complexity

2020

Jacobs, G., Suojanen, I., Horton, K. E., & Bayerl, P. S. (Eds.)

Springer International Publishing

Policing in the Era of AI and Smart Societies

2020

Jahankhani, H., Akhgar, B., Cochrane, P., & Dastbaz, M. (Eds.)

Springer International Publishing

Social media strategy in policing: From cultural intelligence to community policing

2019

Akhgar, B., Bayerl, P.S, & Leventakis, G. (Eds.)

Springer

Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies

2019

Akhgar, B. (Eds.)

Springer International Publishing

Journal Articles

Bayerl, P.S., Horton, K.E., Jacobs, G., Rogiest, S., Reguli, Z., Gruschinske, M., Costanzo, P., Stojanovski, T., Vonas, G., Gasco, M., & Elliott, K. (2014). Perspectives on the police profession: an international investigation. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 37 (4), 728-745.
Polovina, S., Andrews, S., Akhgar, B., Staniforth, A., & Fortune, D. (2014). The EMPRISES pan-European Framework: Monitoring and Combatting Serious Organised Economic Crime. International Journal of Conceptual Structures and Smart Applications (IJCSSA), 2(2), 76-87.
Brewster, B., Akhgar, B., Staniforth, A., Waddington, D., Andrews, S., Mitchell, S. J., & Johnson, K. (2014). Towards a model for the integration of knowledge management in law enforcement agencies. International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics 9, 6(1), 1-17.
Yates, S. J., Akhgar, B., Bates, C., Jopek, L., & Wilson, R. (2011). A platform for discovering and sharing confidential ballistic crime data. International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence, 2(2-3), 202-218.

Conference Articles

Orphanides, C., Akhgar, B., & Bayerl, P. S. (2017). Discovering knowledge in online drug transactions using conceptual graphs and formal concept analysis. In: 2016 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC). (pp. 100-103). IEEE.
Gibson, H., Akhgar, B., Hajirasouliha, I., Garcia, R., Ozdemir, Z., & Pilakoutas, K. (2017). A situational awareness framework for improving earthquake response, recovery and resilience. In: Proceedings of the 16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering. Santiago, Chile, 9-13 January 2017.
Pournouri, S., Akhgar, B., & Bayerl, P. S. (2017). Cyber attacks analysis using decision tree technique for improving cyber situational awareness. In: International Conference on Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability. (pp. 155-172). Springer, Cham.
Gibson, H., & Akhgar, B. (2017). Towards an enterprise architecture framework for community policing. In: International Conference on Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability. (pp. 106-112). Springer, Cham.
Day, T., Gibson, H., Gunning, M., & Akhgar, B. (2017). You are not Alone: Enhancing Humanitarian Field Staff Security. In: Next Generation Community Policing Conference. Crete, 25-27th October 2017.
Gibson, H., Akhgar, B., & Domdouzis, K. (2015). Using social media for crisis response: The ATHENA system. In: Proceedings of the second European conference on social media (ECSM 2015). (pp. 183-192).
Brewster, B., Ingle, T., & Rankin, G. (2015). Crawling open-source data for indicators of human trafficking. In: 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. (pp. 714–719). IEEE.
Domdouzis, K., Andrews, S., Gibson, H., Akhgar, B., & Hirsch, L. (2015). Service-oriented design of a command and control intelligence dashboard for crisis management. In: 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. (pp. 702-707). IEEE.

Book Chapters

McSeveny, K., & Waddington, D. (2011). Up close and personal–the interplay between information technology and human agency in the policing of the 2011 Sheffield anti-Lib Dem protest. In: Intelligence Management. (pp. 199-212). Springer, London.

White Papers and Reports

Bayerl, P.S., Obst, M., & Akhgar, B. (2023). International Citizen Consultation on AI Accountability in Policing. AP4AI Report 3.
B. Akhgar, P.S. Bayerl, K. Bailey, R. Dennis, H. Gibson, S. Heyes, A. Lyle, A. Raven, F. Sampson, CENTRIC (2022). AP4AI Framework Blueprint, AP4AI Report 2.
B. Akhgar, P.S. Bayerl, K. Bailey, R. Dennis, S. Heyes, A. Lyle, A. Raven, F. Sampson, CENTRIC M. Gercke, Cybercrime Research Institute (2022). Summary Report on Expert Consultations, AP4AI Report 1.