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

Intelligence Management: Knowledge Driven Frameworks for Combating Terrorism and Organized Crime

2011

Akhgar, B., & Yates, S. (Eds.)

Springer Science & Business Media

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

Jones, A., Davey, S., Fenwick, J., Wallis, R., Whitfield, K., & Akhgar, B. (2024). Work-in-Progress—Enhancing Cyber Prevention Education: Utilising Virtual Reality Technology for Parents/Carers and Teachers. In: iLRN Proceedings. 10th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) Academic, 1(1), 210–216.
Ezzeddine, Y., Bayerl, P., & Gibson, H. (2023). Citizen Perspectives on Necessary Safeguards to the Use of AI by Law Enforcement Agencies. In: Proceedings from CSCE 2022. Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence.
Cumberland, E., & Day, T. (2021). A Prescriptive Approach for Structured Information Extraction From Web Forums And Social Media. In: 2021 International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Controls (ISCSIC). (pp. 95-101). IEEE.
Bayerl, P. S., & Butot, V. (2021). Smart City Configurations: A Conceptual Approach to Assess Smart City Practices and Outcomes. In: 2021 6th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech). (pp. 01-07). IEEE.
Wanner, L., Klusch, M., Mavropoulos, A., Jamin, E., Marín Puchades, V., Casamayor, G., Černocký, J., Davey, S., Domínguez, M., Egorova, E., Grivolla, J., Jaramillo Rojas, G. E., Karakostas, A., Ntioudis, D., Pecina, P., Sobko, O., Vrochidis, S., Wertmann, L. (2021). Towards a Versatile Intelligent Conversational Agent as Personal Assistant for Migrants. In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (pp. 316-327). Springer International Publishing.
Davri, E. C., Darra, E., Monogioudis, I., Grigoriadis, A., Iliou, C., Mengidis, N., Tsikrika, T., Vrochidis, S., Peratikou, A., Gibson, H., Haskovic, D., Kavallieros, D., Chaskos, E., Zhao, P., Shiaeles, S., Savage, N., Akhgar, B., Belleken, X., & Farah, M. A. B. (2021). Cyber Security Certification Programmes. In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR). (pp. 428-435). IEEE.
McAlpine, A., Sahar, A., & Pannocchia, D. (2021). Abase and Abound: Social Media Campaign Strategies during the Cape Town Drought and UK Winter Floods. In: AQUA≈360: Water for All - Emerging Issues and Innovations. Exeter, UK, 31 Aug - 02 Sep 2021.
Bayerl, P.S., Akhgar, B., La Mattina, E., Pirillo, B., Cotoi, I., Ariu, D., Mauri, M., Garcia, J., Kavallieros, D., Kardara, A. & Karagiorgou, K. (2021). Strategies to Counter Artificial Intelligence in Law Enforcement: Cross-Country Comparison of Citizens in Greece, Italy and Spain. In: Transactions on Computational Science & Computational Intelligence. Cham, Switzerland, Springer (IKE'21 - The 20th International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering. 26 July 2021- 29 July 2021. Las Vegas, USA.

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.