Professor of Policing, Crime prevention, Learning & Innovation, University of East London
As a leading pracademic, Professor Coxhead has worked across professional policing practice and higher education for the last 30 years. His 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, Vienna) within the Organisation for Security in Europe (OSCE) and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC).
Dr Coxhead works with several universities, police and security agencies in the UK and internationally and is external examiner in policing and criminology at the Universities of Wales and Manchester Metropolitan, having held professorial positions in policing at Keele and Loughborough Universities, and is founder of the Innovation in Policing national competition (hosted by Police Professional journal).
His primary research interests surround policing, particularly around enabling innovation and learning environments and has published widely, often directly for Government use, on serious organised crime and performance improvement within policing.
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