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Policing of Drugs in Scotland: Moving beyond the stalemate to redesigning the chess board

Book Chapter
Fotopoulou, M., & Aston, E. (in press)
Policing of Drugs in Scotland: Moving beyond the stalemate to redesigning the chess board. In M. Bacon, & J. Spicer (Eds.), Drug law enforcement, policing and harm reduction: Ending the stalemate. Routledge
This chapter aims to illuminate aspects of the risk environment within which drugs are consumed and policed in Scotland. Firstly, we focus on the macro-level policy context an...

The Scottish Institute For Policing Research Annual Report 2020-21

Report
Aston, E., & Boyle, M. (2021)
The Scottish Institute For Policing Research Annual Report 2020-21. Edinburgh: Scottish Institue for Policing Research

BSC Learning and Teaching Network Roundtable Studying Criminology: Students' and academic perspectives as partners

Presentation / Conference
Strudwick, K., Young, S., Dingwall, G., Haddow, C., & Wane, P. (2021, July)
BSC Learning and Teaching Network Roundtable Studying Criminology: Students' and academic perspectives as partners. Paper presented at British Society of Criminology Annual Conference, Online
This roundtable presents reflections from members of the BSC Learning and Teaching Network on current debates to meet challenges within Higher Education. The panel seeks to re...

Getting it right for families affected by imprisonment: Lessons from ten years of research

Report
Barkas, B., Deacon, K., Foster, R., Jardine, C., Primrose, K., & Troy, V. (2021)
Getting it right for families affected by imprisonment: Lessons from ten years of research. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research

Discursive representations of restorative justice in international policies

Journal Article
Pali, B., & Maglione, G. (in press)
Discursive representations of restorative justice in international policies. European Journal of Criminology, https://doi.org/10.1177/14773708211013025
The European Directive 2012/29/EU, the Council of Europe Recommendation CM/Rec(2018)8), and the recently launched updated United Nations Handbook (2020) testify to the increas...

Second meeting of the Independent Advisory Group on Emerging Technologies in Policing

Other
Aston, E. (2021)
Second meeting of the Independent Advisory Group on Emerging Technologies in Policing. [Blog post]
Public URL: https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/enuapplyscience/2021/03/24/second-meeting-of-the-independent-advisory-group-on-emerging-technologies-in-policing/

SIPR written submission to Justice Sub-Committee on Policing -parliamentary inquiry and report on remote piloted aircraft systems and body worn video, 2021

Other
Aston, E., Willis, J., & Woolnough, P. (2021)
SIPR written submission to Justice Sub-Committee on Policing -parliamentary inquiry and report on remote piloted aircraft systems and body worn video, 2021. [https://sp-bpr-en-prod-cdnep.azureedge.net/published/JSP/2021/3/18/b8a4803a-6f9a-4a77-9ff0-3d75251934c1-1/JSPS0521R01.pdf]

The reality of 'cyber security awareness': findings and policy implications for Scotland

Report
Horgan, S. (2021)
The reality of 'cyber security awareness': findings and policy implications for Scotland. Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, the Scottish Institute for Policing Research, and the Scottish Government
This briefing paper represents a summary of doctoral research that explores how different groups make sense of and respond to cybercrime in their everyday lives. The research ...

Evaluating and Revising Police Stop and Search Practices in Scotland

Book Chapter
O'Neill, M., & Aston, E. (2021)
Evaluating and Revising Police Stop and Search Practices in Scotland. In J. F. Albrecht, & G. den Heyer (Eds.), Enhancing Police Service Delivery: Global Perspectives and Contemporary Policy Implications (31-51). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61452-2_3
Compared to other areas in the United Kingdom, stop and search in Scotland was on a disproportionately large scale prior to 2015 and overwhelmingly targeted children and young...

Investigating New Types of Engagement, Response And Contact Technology in Policing

Other
Aston, E. (2021)
Investigating New Types of Engagement, Response And Contact Technology in Policing. [Blog post]
A major new research project will examine how police-public engagement is being changed by the use of new technologies. Public URL: https://blogs.napier.ac.uk/enuapplyscience...
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SIPR Associate Director

2024 - 2027
This is a project for my role as Associate Director (Development) with the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR)
Funder: Scottish Institute for Policing Research

Raptor Persecution in Scotland

2023 - 2024
Drs Soliman and Wooff are designing a project examining raptor persecution in Scotland. One of the six UK wildlife crime priority areas, the illegal killing of birds of prey is primarily associated wi...
Funder: Scottish Institute for Policing Research | Value: £2,000

Modern Studies teaching development work

2023 - 2024
This Knowledge Exchange project is funded by the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice research (the SCCJR). Our team comprises Dr Rebecca Foster (ENU, project lead), Dr Estelle Clayton (ENU), Karyn M...
Funder: The Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research | Value: £1,662

Expert reviews to support Scotlands response to, and recovery from, Covid-19

2022 - 2022
Project Aims i) To review evidence from Scotland and beyond on experiences of covid19 in prisons and identify transferable learning to inform Scotland’s Covid Recovery Strategy. ii) To focus on innova...
Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £28,270

Naloxone in Police Scotland - a Pilot Evaluation

2022 - 2022
This study will be a mixed methods process evaluation of a test of change (pilot project) for the carriage, and use, of intra-nasal spray Naloxone by Police Scotland officers. The evaluation will foc...
Funder: Scottish Government | Value: £80,769

Music and Communication for Mothers and Young Children in Prison

2021 - 2022
The objectives of the research workshops for the project, ‘Music and Communication for Mothers and Young Children in Prison’ are threefold; 1) to investigate current music practice in prisons betwee...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £9,710

The impact of COVID-19 on the justice voluntary sector

2021 - 2022
The aim of the project is to explore the experiences of third sector criminal justice organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic. We want to understand how organisations and the sector as a whole have...
Funder: The Criminal Justice Voluntary Sector Forum | Value: £7,952

Mapping Capacities for a Community Policing of Cybercrime and Digital Harm

2021 - 2022
Research exploring cybercrime policing has tended to focus on specialist policing units on the one hand (Harkin, Whelan and Change, 2018), and on the inherent limits of public policing organisations o...
Funder: Scottish Institute for Policing Research | Value: £19,709

'Witches' stories: persecuted for helping others: documentary analysis of early midwives and nurses as reported within the Scottish Witchcraft Survey database

2021 - 2021
Aim: to investigate accounts of nurses/healers and midwives accused/persecuted as 'witches'. Methods: Documentary analysis of the Survey of Scottish Witchcraft online database of those 'witches' cate...
Funder: Royal College of Nursing Foundation | Value: £7,114

Going AFK: interrogating the viability of desistance theorising for narratives of cyber-dependent criminal careers

2021 - 2022
This project brings together two of the Co-Investigators’ fields of criminological research: desistance research and cybercrime. These areas currently exist in relative isolation to each other but off...
Funder: Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland | Value: £9,321
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Gender and Sexuality Research at Edinburgh Napier University

Merchiston Campus, room: MER_H11
6 March 2024

Dr Roberto Kulpa speaks about "RESIST - Fostering Queer Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics" research consortium at the special seminar of the Centre for Arts, Media, & Culture, Edinburgh Napier University.

Centre for Arts, Media, & Culture, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
8 March 2023

Policing Justice and Society Seminar Series - Associate Prof. Sarah Soppitt, Northumbria University

Edinburgh Napier University, Sighthill Campus
2 December 2019

Policing, Justice and Society Seminar Series - Dr Jarmo Houtsonen, Police University College, Finland

Edinburgh Napier University, Sighthill Campus
28 October 2019

Visiting researcher - Dr Richard Hough (University Of West Florida) to present on legitimacy, accountability and the use of force in American policing

Edinburgh Napier University (Sighthill Campus)
22 September 2019

Visiting Professor - Professor Ben Bradford (Global City Policing at the UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science) to present on the effects of stop and search on people and crime

Edinburgh Napier University (Sighthill Campus)
9 June 2019

Suspect Confessions

The Stand's New Town Theatre (Venue 7), Studio George Street Edinburgh
16 August 2018

When Innocent becomes Guilty: Psychology of False Confessions

The Banshee Labyrinth, Niddrie Street, Edinburgh, EL1 1LG
18 July 2018

Proof or Lies

Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Summerhall, Edinburgh
4 April 2018

Detective McLevy's Rogues Gallery: Faces of Crime 1870-1917

Both event and exhibition at General Register House, Princes Street, Edinburgh.
13 November 2017