Ruwan Uduwerage-Perera
Senior Lecturer
Pracademic with experience in academia and policing
, Royal Docks School Of Business And Law
Former British police officer, national and international police trainer, advisor and activist on equality, diversity, and community engagement issues, Ruwan Uduwerage-Perera was the first elected General Secretary of the National Black Police Association. As a researcher at the College of Policing, Ruwan provided advice and guidance to the National Centre for Policing Excellence on equality, diversity, and community engagement issues. Ruwan was part of a small team tasked by the National Police Chiefs' Council and the Home Office to investigate how the police dealt with civil unrest between different ethnic groups. This inspired national guidance on policing for community cohesion.
Ruwan is the Director of Policing, Criminology & Justice (Cluster Lead), responsible for developing and delivering such programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He is also a Co-Director of the International Centre for Policing Innovation Enterprise and Learning (PIEL Centre), a praxis-based research centre aiming to #bethechangeinpolicing, plus Ruwan is a visiting academic at Rashtriya Raksha University in Gujarat, India, as well as at several other institutions internationally.
Qualifications
- MSc Criminology & Criminal Justice
- MA Holocaust Studies
Areas Of Interest
- Criminology
- Criminal Justice
- Policing
- Hate crime
OVERVIEW
Ruwan Uduwerage-Perera is a former British Police Officer of British and Sri Lankan descent, a founding member and the first elected General Secretary to the National Black Police Association (1999-2003), a former national and international police trainer, and advisor and campaigner in the field of equality & diversity, and community engagement issues.
As the Policing Diverse Communities Manager for the College of Policing (2003-2007), Ruwan was an adviser on equality, diversity and community engagement issues for the National Centre for Policing Excellence. Ruwan was part of a small team, tasked by the National Police Chiefs' Council and the Home Office to research the Police response to the inter-ethnic civil disorders, which resulted in national guidance on Community Cohesion Policing.
Ruwan is actively involved in developing equality and diversity initiatives, and greater community engagement within both the voluntary and public sectors at regional, national and international levels. He is also involved in academic research within the criminal justice system and is a regular contributor to national and international debates on policing.
Ruwan is a visiting academic at Rashtriya Raksha University, Gujarat, India where he is a member of the International Faculty for criminology.
For leisure, Ruwan enjoys researching all his areas of interest, walking his terriers around his home in the Highlands of Scotland, playing one of his many ukuleles, and canoeing.
External roles
Local Councillor, Director of East Sutherland Citizens' Advice Bureau, Vice Convenor of the Sutherland Scottish National Party, Advisor to Black Lives Matter in the Stix. Advisor to several equalities organisations in the UK and Sri Lanka.
CURRENT RESEARCH
Underrepresentation of Black and Minority Ethnic recruits to the police
National Guidance for the police service:
- Community Cohesion (Primary researcher and co-author)
- Neighbourhood Policing
- Domestic Violence
- Hate Crime
- Cultural Awareness Guidance, College of Policing
- 'Making Migration Work for Britain: For a stronger and fairer society' – Coalition Government Policy – 2014
- 'From Alnerney to Józefów: Policing the Holocaust' – 2014
- 'Towards Equality: A Liberal Democrat Approach' - Coalition Government Policy – 2013
- 'An Exploration of the Role of Higher Education in Developing Professionalism of Police Recruits in England and Wales’ – 2010
- 'Confronting Racism' – 1999
Most recent research
Developing Problem-oriented and Partnership Policing initiatives in Gujarat India.
RESEARCH CENTRES
MODULES
- Dissertation Supervisor
- Theoretical Criminology
- Policing and Investigation
Publications
The last four years of publications can be viewed below.
Full publications list
Visit the research repository to view a full list of publications