Transcript The Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science Agenda

The Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science
Agenda
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What we do
Who we are
What research money we have attracted
Our publications and profile
Our international contacts
Our plans
Medical Science and Crime Science
Medical Science
Chemistry
Biology
Physics
Epidemiology
Biochemistry
Etc...
Crime Science
Engineering
Design
Genetics
Biochemistry
Physics
Materials Science
Criminology
Psychology
Sociology etc
Communications
Artificial
Intelligence
Zoology
Ecology etc...
What we do
• Research on the prevention and detection of:
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Crime (from child abuse to organised crime)
Disorder
Anti-social behaviour
Terrorism
• Teaching – Masters course and associated
UCL post graduate courses plus various short
courses
Training
• Postgraduate courses – 30 students in 2004/05
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MSc in Crime Science
Diploma in Crime Prevention
Certificate in Crime Prevention
Certificate in Crime Detection (new for 2005)
• Short courses
– 5-day training for crime analysts
– Advanced 1-day courses for analysts in GIS
– One-day masterclasses for
• Senior police officers, and
• Policy makers
JDI Staff
• 1 HEFC funded post
• 8 staff funded through Jill
Dando Fund
• Remainder (13) on short
term contracts
Includes 5 staff located at a
Crime Science laboratory in
West Midlands Police
Senior staff academic backgrounds
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Mathematics
(2 x BSc)
Statistics
(1 x BSc)
Computer Science
(2 x BSc)
Artificial intelligence (1x BSc)
Psychology (2 x MSc, 2 x PhD)
Geography and GIS (1 x BSc and
MSc)
• Urban Planning
(1 x PhD)
• Criminology
(1 x PhD)
MSc student backgrounds
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Biology
Computer Science
Geography
Accounting
Philosophy
Law x 4
Psychology x 3
War studies
Criminology
Research Funding
• Over £3 million pounds in external research funding
since 2001- this excludes JD fund, short course
income and UCL teaching fees
• Mainly brought in by 6 senior staff (1 is HEFCE
funded)
• Nearly all expenditure on salaries - not equipment
• Increasing number of research charities and research
council funded grants
• Large scale EU bids are currently submitted
• Bids totalling over £2 million currently under
consideration or in planning
research income by year
1,200,000
1,000,000
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2001/02 (£)
2002/03 (£)
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Source of funds
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UK Government bodies
Public and private corporations
300000
UK based charities
Research Councils
EU Government bodies
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2007/08 (£)
Dissemination
RAE census period 2001 – current date
– 45 peer-reviewed publications (across 20 different journals)
– 16 book chapters
– Crime science book series with
• 2 edited books
• 1 authored book
– 1 special journal edition and one issue of British Journal of
Criminology in progress
– Over 100 invited conference presentations at international meetings
covering Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Italy,
Spain, Greece, USA, Canada, Ireland, Netherlands and Chile
Media coverage
Printed
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Economist
New Scientist
Nature online
Royal Statistical Society
Guardian
Daily Mail
Mirror
Independent
Express
TV and Radio
- BBC TV and radio news
- ITN news
- BBC regional TV and radio
- Radio 5 live
- BBC 24 news
- Sky News
- The Commission, Radio 4
- The Moral Maze
- Channel 4 news
National Consultancies and Invited Lectures
International Scientific Collaboration
EPSRC funded Crime Science Network
£60k over three years for an International
Crime Science Network
British Academy funded International
Collaborative Network
Partners from JDI@UCL, Netherlands and USA with
experts in:
– Geography
– Statistics
– Epidemiology
– Computer Science
– Mathematics and simulation modelling
– Psychology
International Scientific Collaboration
10th Annual Workshop on Economic Heterogeneous
Interacting Agents
– Mathematics and complex systems
New Emerging Trends in Applied Mathematics workshop
(Firenze and Oxford), funded by the European
Commission
– Mathematics and physics
3rd National Crime Mapping Conference
Sponsors and supporters:
Government and Industry
- Home Office, ACPO, PITO, Ordnance Survey
- All the main GIS companies
Speakers
- Hazel Blears MP
- From Senior Civil Servants to Crime Analysts
- UK, USA, Australia, Netherlands, Sweden
Visitors to JDI
(2001- 2005)
Academics from:
Australia, US, Chile,
Norway, Sweden
Practitioners/policy makers
from:
Taiwan, New Zealand, Mexico,
Australia, Sweden
Policy briefings to Labour, Conservative and Liberal
Democrats
Our Plans
• Moving to Brook House at end of April – and
better connecting with UCL
• New business plan
• Strategic relationship with the MPD to include
major teaching contract for their 400 analysts
• ‘Five star’ or equivalent in next RAE