Professor John Coxhead
Hourly Paid Lecturer
Professor
Policing, Crime prevention, Learning & Innovation
Department of Law & Criminology , Royal Docks School Of Business And Law
As a pracademic, I have worked across professional practice and higher education for the last 35 years. My professional experience in policing has involved a number of specialist roles: working with the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU) within the Organisation for Security in Europe (OSCE) and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC). I am an experienced external examiner, academic supervisor, security-cleared researcher and writer of overt (published) and covert (security-sensitive) outputs. I am the founder of the Innovation in Policing national competition.
I continue to work part-time in professional practice, particularly concerning cross-border crime research and strategic intelligence, as well as working internationally on a number of research projects with colleagues in the USA, Canada, India, Australia, Arab Emirates and the Caribbean. I am available for research consultancy, PhD supervision and supporting post-doctoral researchers in dissemination and industrial impact.
Qualifications
- SFHEA
- FRSA
Areas Of Interest
His primary research interests surround policing, particularly around enabling innovation and learning environments. He is the founder of the UK Innovation in Policing annual competition and is keen to create a 'Silicon Valley' centre for policing innovation and enterprise in the UK.
- Policing research
- Serious organised crime
- Innovation
- Community policing
OVERVIEW
John is a policing educationalist and twice winner of the Queen's Award in Innovation in Police Learning and Development.
He holds professorial roles at Loughborough and Keele Universities and is external examiner at Manchester Metropolitan University (MA Applied Criminology) and at the University of Wales (TSD) MSC Police Leadership.
He also works as Principal Researcher for the East Midlands Police Academic Collaboration (EMPAC) within the East Midlands Special Operations Unit (EMSOU) and is a columnist with Police Professional, the UK's biggest-selling policing publication.
External roles
- External examiner Manchester Metropolitan University (MSc Applied Criminology)
- University of Wales (TSD) MSc Strategic Police Leadership
Industry partners
- Home Office
- Interpol
- EMPAC
CURRENT RESEARCH
Recent Research
- Home Office commission Feasibility Report for Police Bursary Scheme in England and Wales (2023)
- Home Office commission Evaluation of Clear Hold Build framework to combat serious organised crime (2023)
- Home Office / Ministry of Justice commission Lifetime Offender Management intervention and prevention a research insight report (2023)Home Office commission Feasibility Report for Police Bursary Scheme in England and Wales (2023)
- Home Office commission Evaluation of Clear Hold Build framework to combat serious organised crime (2023)
- Home Office / Ministry of Justice commission Lifetime Offender Management intervention and prevention a research insight report (2023)
- National Police Chief’s Council commission Involving Communities in Policing Learning and Development: an independent report for the national Uplift project (2023)
Recent conference keynotes
- The future of UK Policing: Ensuring Transparency, Accountability and Public Confidence (Public Policy Exchange) 11.5.23
- The future of forensic capabilities 7 th Global Forensic Science Conference 22.3.23 (with Dr Michael Harrison)
- Policing partnership using a place-based approach Birmingham Conference on Serious Organised Crime, 16.3.23
- Agile learning to enhance policing productivity World Police Summit, Dubai 7-9th March 2023
- Tackling Metal Theft (Public Policy Exchange) 31.1.23
- Advancing Strategies for Counter Terrorism (IGPP) 18.1.23
- Future of Emergency Services: how to get upstream (with Dr Tony Kearon, Keele University) (IGPP) 6.12.22
- 6th Global Forensic Science Conference: weaponising forensic proactivity 17.11.22
- Tackling Serious and Organised Crime in a Time of Change (Public Policy Exchange) 18.10.22
- Policing innovation international seminar (Police Foundation) 19.5.21
PUBLICATIONS
- The need for a new Crime Prevention Act, New Law Journal, March 2023
- Policing the Pandemic, Routledge (2023) (with Professor Lisa Jackson)
- The Thought Police: Police leaders as thinkers (Springer, 2023)
- Attributes and Access Police Professional Journal November 2022 http://Police Professional | Attributes and access
The PIEL Centre
The PIEL Centre has an ambition to be the global Silicon Valley for policing. This means driving creativity, ingenuity and strategic intelligence for tomorrow's challenges proactively so that policing is not having to constantly reacting to emergencies it had not anticipated.
Getting upstream is about optimising ingenuity through technology, dynamic analytics and designing solutions that are future fit, to support a mindset of performance that is holistic and utilises every capacity and capability for ultimate effectiveness. Being future orientated is all about being a smart public service of the 21st century, where the service mission is to keep communities safe proactively, and not simply trying to cope with outstretched demand.
PIEL's vision for the future is that we move beyond reacting to failure to influencing future success. We will achieve that by working together on solution focused policing, where 'what good looks like' inspires our vision and our tactics are operationalised by using ideas ahead of their time to invent now technology and field products for dynamic use.
Modules
- PhD supervision