SIPR's mission is to support internationally excellent, multi-disciplinary policing research to enable evidence informed policy & practice. Established in 2007 SIPR is a collaboration between Police Scotland, the Scottish Police Authority, and 14 Scottish universities established to carry out high quality, independent research and to make evidence-based contributions to policing policy and practice. The consortium of Higher Education Institutions involved in SIPR are: Abertay Dundee, Dundee, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Napier, Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian, Heriot-Watt, Queen Margaret, Robert Gordon, St Andrews, Stirling, Strathclyde, The West of Scotland, and the Open University in Scotland. We aim to: * facilitate internationally excellent, independent research of relevance to policing; * Engage in a range of knowledge exchange activities to strengthen the evidence base on which policy and practice are improved & developed nationally and internationally; * Nurture a culture of learning & innovation; and * Promote the development of national & international partnerships with researcher, practitioner and policing communities. Follow us here on linked in or Twitter https://twitter.com/TheSIPR YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLgh1qZLeKMZprWJj_zF27Q