TNOC Research Integrator

Lead Research Organisation: University of Cambridge
Department Name: Politics and International Studies

Abstract

An important feature of this TNOC initiative is the development of new innovative, cross-disciplinary approaches in an attempt to improve our understanding of the evolution, success and impact of TNOC over time, in different cultural contexts and across societies; these improvements in understanding should lead to more effective ways to prevent and mitigate its impact. There is likely to be a read-across to other PaCCS themes (Conflict and Cybersecurity), and there is the potential to engage the interest of a broad range of non-academic stakeholders (at home and abroad).

I will frame the work of the Research Integrator within this context. I can provide a realistic and disciplined approach to the role. But I won't stifle innovative and creative of projects likely to have been chosen for their willingness to take risks. Given limited time available to perform the role, it is also essential that nothing is done to duplicate the plans and networks established by the projects themselves. This has been a key principle of my time as PaCCS Champion, which would continue to apply here.

There are a number of phases to my proposed approach (although I see the programme of work developing organically and flexibly, with opportunities to accelerate or integrate different phases, in response to the needs of the projects themselves).

Phase 1: Familiarisation. I hold one-to-one discussions with PIs and partners in all projects. I convene an early networking workshop where the PIs get to know one another: we compare and contrast research proposals, identify common themes, and understand the needs of non-academic stakeholders.

Phase 2: Network Infrastructure. I liaise with the PaCCS Communications Coordinator, looking for an opportunity to establish the database of projects on the TNOC page(s) of the PaCCS website and exploring opportunities for introducing TNOC-specific blogs from projects, a collaborative workspace, etc.

Phase 3. Early Collaboration. I work with PIs to enhance impact and knowledge exchange, offering clinics to develop tailored plans, making recommendations to extend links to non-academic stakeholders (in Government, Industry and the Third Sector); I will hold parallel discussions with potential beneficiaries of research in order to finesse opportunities for impact. I will draw on any related academic work, for instance work to map the different research projects and produce a "synthesis piece". A workshop at the end of Year 1 would bring the projects together, ideally with their nominated non-academic stakeholders.

Phase 4. Generating Early Impact & Knowledge Exchange. Further clinics are run, looking for synergies between projects (facilitating the sharing of data, networks and findings). I design and deliver speed-dating and/or placement schemes; and organise a Policy Workshop where researchers join with stakeholders to promote impact and knowledge exchange.

Phase 5. Dissemination of Outputs. I draw on findings and recommendations from our Policy Workshop to draft, design, publish and launch one or more Policy Briefings (with a focus on synergies), pursuing follow-up action to increase likelihood of impact. This is done in collaboration with PIs and their partners. I also support individual projects to maximise their outreach, helping draft messages to relevant audiences.

I will work with the communications infrastructure that I developed as PaCCS Champion: the Communications Coordinator, the website , and the Twitter handle (with almost 800 followers). Another important resource is the website being established by RUSI and funded by ESRC to support the Strategic Hub on Organised Crime. Channels for communication include broadcasting on social media (Twitter) and websites (publishing news stories, blogs and success stories); I have also worked with media outlets, including The Conversation UK which delivers product into the Creative Commons and is read around the world.

Planned Impact

A particularly important outcome from this call could be the emergence of enhanced capacity to conduct larger, longer and more complex research projects; the Research Integrator can make a significant difference here.

I would also expect "Intellectual Impact" to be delivered by this grant, where the judgments of policy- and decision-makers are illuminated by insights from research. I have identified a number of mechanisms that have proved to be a cost-effective way of exchanging knowledge and enhancing impact. Given budgetary constraints, these will be tailored to the TNOC role, and I will fine-tune the options in consultation with the Principal Pnvestigators (PIs) themselves; but they include the following:

Networking/Teaming Events: I bring together the PIs, RAs and (where appropriate) non-academic stakeholders involved in the ten projects; options would include a 2-day residential team-building event, and the employment of innovative techniques like a writing slam to generate synergies and outputs.

Impact Clinics: I aim to offer one-to-one sessions with PIs, to identify action to enhance impact; these are important not only for uncovering opportunities to synthesise research activities and outcomes associated with the TNOC projects, but also to help individual projects reach maximum potential through helping shape messages and identify suitable target audiences for their work.

Speed-Dating: inspired by the "Fellowship Schemes" that I have run, this has up to four individuals from different stakeholder communities meeting researchers to explore questions identified by stakeholders; this is an effective way to break down barriers, exchange knowledge and build trust between policy-makers and researchers, with some longer-term relationships emerging from the encounters.

Placement Schemes: I plan to fund one placement, where an RA or doctoral student from a project spends a month with their non-academic partner in order to answer a strategic question and exchange knowledge; this should lead to an output of value to both the stakeholder and the researchers, which would hopefully be published; my budget can cover one such placement (probably to be selected through a competition between the 10 projects); but we might be able to find ways for a larger number to be funded.

Policy Workshop: this will take place near the end of the programme, when researchers can present their findings to a gathering of policy-makers and practitioners, with non-academic engagement from different sectors (eg Government, Industry, Civil Society); this is not a one-way street: stakeholders are invited to respond to what they hear, with the aim of extracting insights from the fusion of academic and non-academic minds.

Policy Paper(s): in consultation with PIs and others, I will turn the findings from the Workshop into one or more Policy Papers which are launched and disseminated, with a media strategy if appropriate.
 
Description In 2018, in my role as an Research Integrator, we brought together twelve researchers within the first phase of PaCCS-funded research into TNOC and engaged with c 40 non-academic stakeholders (policy-makers, lawyers, police etc) to identify key messages to emerge from our work on Transnational Organised Crime. The key findings were set out in a Policy Briefing and can be summarised as follows: 1. Local factors, evolving over time, play a critical part in shaping and enabling forms of organised criminality. 2. Flexible long-distance networks that cross regional / political boundaries combine with strong local power-structures with to make the TNOC phenomenon more resilient than has been assumed. 3. Technology delivers new challenges: cyberspace creates an environment in which TNOC can thrive, facilitating traditional crimes, creating new ones (eg ransomware) and providing anonymity and protection to the criminal. 4. At times of social upheaval, or in places where legitimate political authority is absent, TNOC can deliver stability and supply essential licit - as well as illicit - goods and services; so, the dismantling of TNOC structures can carry unintended consequences, especially where this creates a vacuum. 5. A multiplicity of authorities, experts and sectors have a contribution to make to the challenge of countering TNOC; but they are poorly-aligned, poorly-resourced and deprived of shared data. 6. Metrics are incomplete and often non-existent: we struggle to develop effective ways to classify and measure the threat from TNOC and the harmful disruption it creates; this adds to difficulties faced by those delivering TNOC policy and practice. 7. TNOC policies can undermine the rule of law and human rights: for instance, measures to counter human smuggling can negatively affect civil society, including volunteers who provide assistance to asylum seekers and immigrants. 8. Communication challenges beset those seeking to disrupt TNOC; better, and more, messages need to be developed & deployed: to help society understand & engage with victims; to prevent the recruitment & direction of TNOC members; and to tackle the consumption of criminal commodities and delivery of professional services (such as lawyers & accountants forming shell companies to service money-laundering). This led, in turn, to eight recommendations which are now being promulgated: 1. Use Microscope and Telescope: all those engaged in TNOC policy and practice must take account of the micro and the macro. 2. Conduct Network Analysis: interventions by those countering TNOC need to recognise the complex nature of its channels and adapt strategies tailored to individual components or nodes. 3. Novel techniques should be developed to monitor and counter TNOC in cyberspace. 4. Plan for Unintended Consequences: invest in local knowledge when dismantling TNOC structures, to develop solutions that minimise risk; "back-fill", to avoid the formation of a power vacuum or create new opportunities for new TNOCs, and avoid disadvantaging already marginalised groups (such as migrants forced into low-wage labour or sex-work). 5. Connect and Collaborate: Transform the quality and resourcing of partnerships to tackle TNOC. 6. Strategic Priorities: we need to develop better ways to direct - and measure success in - the fight against TNOC, in particular prioritising by harm; the National Policing College could support this with help from academic research. 7. Measures to counter TNOC must be applied responsibly and ethically to avoid the erosion of societal trust; do nothing, for instance, to undermine freedoms of association & expression. 8. Communication Strategies: Policy-makers & Practitioners should seek the help of expert communicators to develop strategies that: reduce harm; promote data-sharing; prevent or disrupt membership of TNOC organisations; and deter engagement with professionals.

We built on this work in our virtual conference in 2021, entitled "Maximising Impact from Serious Organised Crime Research", which was closely linked to the work of five research projects funded by the second TNOC call ("Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime"). This international conference, with over 130 participants, was developed in close consultation with the Home Office and National Police Chiefs Council: keynote talks were given by the Chief Scientific Adviser of the former (Prof Jennifer Rubin) and the Head of the latter (Martin Hewitt). The findings were summarised in a PaCCS Policy Briefing that highlighted the elusive nature of the SOC threat and the vulnerability of counter-SOC domain before making proposals to transform the UK's SOC Strategy (around Culture, Comprehension and Communication, Capacity and Capabilities). These findings were subsequently presented to stimulate debate in the public sector (with talks to the National Crime Agency, HM Prisons and Probations Service, and the Cybercrime team in the Home Office).

Another key finding was the power of low-cost knowledge-broking initiatives, such as the PaCCS Placements (see below) and Policy Roundtables (now being pursued by the Home Office and Counter-Terrorism (CT) Policing where I have been invited to bring researchers together with CT policy-makers and practitioners to debate challenges.
Exploitation Route Our recommendations could be pursued by policy-makers and practitioners in order to strengthen those looking to understand and counter Transnational Organised Crime. This has been illustrated in outputs from the all of the six PaCCS Placements, where doctoral students (from Brighton, Cambridge x 2, Manchester, Nottingham and UCL Universities) have been placed with the the Centre for Maritime Law and Security (in Ghana), Office of the Anti-Slavery Commissioner, TiscReport, the National Intelligence Unit for Serious Organised Acquisitive Crime,and (twice) the National Crime Agency. These three-month placements brought immediate benefit to the host organisations: the first illuminated our understanding of the trafficking of e-waste between the UK and Ghana; the second showed the Anti-Slavery Commissioner how research into victim support can achieve greater impact; the third showed that more needed to be done by Local Government Authorities to monitor and manage transparency in their supply chains. The other three Placements addressed priorities of police teams who needed the help of research.
Sectors Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Government, Democracy and Justice,Security and Diplomacy
URL https://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/PaCCS-Policy-Briefing-on-Maximising-Impact-from-Serious-Organised-Crime-Research-compressed.pdf
 
Description The most substantive evidence of impact derives from the first of the PaCCS TNOC Placements that took place in 2020 (with the Office of the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner). In her "Annual Report 2019-20" Dame Sara Thornton (the Commissioner) has written the following about this work: "4.3.2 One of my early priorities has been to understand what impact research on modern slavery has already had, focusing in the first instance on survivor support. To do so, I have partnered with the UK Research and Innovation Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research (PaCCS). Through PaCCS I have hosted a researcher who has examined the breadth of academic research on survivor support, and the extent to which it has informed policies and practice throughout the UK. The aim of the review and its recommendations is two-fold: ensuring that academics create useable research and encouraging "evidence users" to engage with academic research and use it to inform their survivor-facing policies and practices. 4.3.3 Engagement with academics, policy makers and practitioners has been crucial throughout this project. My office encouraged and facilitated early discussions between the researcher and a range of key stakeholders. A call for research invited interested parties to share academic research that they had either consulted or authored, and to comment on the extent to which they believe it has influenced policy and practice. This received 32 responses, predominantly from researchers and practitioners in the sector and informed a 97-item literature review. Further to this, the review is supported by correspondence with 55 individuals from across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. 4.3.4 I am encouraged by emerging research themes this project has identified. Whilst there is a substantial amount of academic research on support for survivors of modern slavery, this research is not always informing policy and practice or having an impact on the effectiveness of survivor support. In order for research to translate to impact more consistently, the resulting review called for researchers and stakeholders to cultivate a culture of collaboration, understanding and respect. The review also identified the need for a strategic infrastructure that could both consolidate knowledge and facilitate this translation of research into impact. 4.3.5 I have supported dissemination of the review with three separate events. On 30 June I partnered with the APPG on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery to hold a virtual roundtable with parliamentarians. On the release date, a larger virtual event was held with a targeted group of researchers, policy makers and practitioners drawn from contributors to the call for evidence, policy makers and government officials managing current victim policy, and practitioners working on the ground to support victims and survivors of modern slavery. Finally, a virtual workshop was held with members of the Home Office's Modern Slavery Unit, Home Office Analysis and Insight and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to discuss the review's research findings, themes and recommendations." (p36) I expect similar impact to emerge from our Placement with TiscReport (the NGO concerned with monitoring Transparency in Supply Chain): Yongyu Zeng - our researcher from Manchester University - focused on Local Government efforts to uncover forced labour and modern slavery in its supply chains. The findings were circulated to both Local and Central Government, and to Parliament. A follow-up workshop took place in Q2 2021. Jaya Chakrabarti, CEO of TiscReport, told me in March 2023 that this work changed attitudes of Local Authorities, easing collaboration and helping them to argue for resources to meet their obligations under s54 of the Modern Slavery Act (known as the "Transparency in Supply Chain Provision"). In the middle of 2021 we ran two Placements. Zora Hauser (from Oxford) was deployed to help the National Assessment Centre at the National Crime Agency. Her study of Brazilian Organised Crime Groups in the UK proved a great success, with the Head of Intelligence Analysis writing: "We were impressed with the assessment that Zora produced, given the paucity of intelligence around this subject, where she has significantly enhanced our understanding of Brazilian OCG's impact on the UK. ... I see real value in bringing academia into the NAC; they bring a different perspective and range of different skillsets that add huge value to our assessments. ... From our perspective it was impactful and great value for money - we achieved an assessment in quick time once Zora started that we otherwise would not have been achieved for some time, given pressures on the team." Kanchelli Iddrisu (from Cambridge) worked with CEMLAWS (the Centre for Maritime Law and Security) in Accra to map illicit e-waste trafficking between the UK and Ghana. Her Team Leader at CEMLAWS has written: "It brought new understanding and insightful perspectives to the subject of e-waste and CEMLAWS Africa is looking forward to engaging closely with Ghanaian authorities on the recommendations." Subsequently, the Director of CEMLAWS has written positively about the webinar that he organised following the Placement with almost 80 attending - many from Ghana but from c 13 countries altogether. "The participants were from variety of backgrounds," he has written, "policy makers, researchers, transnational organized crime professionals, legal practitioners. Particular notice may be taken from Environmental Officers and the participation from GIZ that does similar work on e-waste trafficking. As I indicated already, GIZ and Environmental Protection Agency (Ghana) have both directly indicated interest in taking the discourse/subject further." We were able to exceed the number of Placements originally planned (thanks to budgetary savings, at least partly resulting from the Covid 19 pandemic), as a result we ran three additional Placements in 2022. Raphaelle Golder (Cambridge) was deployed to work on the theft of catalytic converters with OPAL (the National Serious and Organised Acquisitive Crime Unit. Not only were they delighted with the report, but told us they were going to take lessons from Raphaelle's work by extending their investigative modus operandi to include Social Media. And we made a further two Placements with the National Assessment Centre of the National Crime Agency, reflecting their enthusiasm for working with academics following Zora Hauser's attachment. Helen Williamson (from the University of Brighton) worked on developing a new method for calculating the number of firearms in the hands of Organized Crime in the UK; and Francesca Costi (from UCL) sought to understand the extent to which criminals are involved in multiple SOC crime types. The most significant impact could emerge from two Policy Briefings to emerge from conferences run in 2018 and 2021: "Understanding Transnational Organised Crime in the 21st Century" and "Maximising Impact from Serious Organised Crime Research". The latter conference was developed in close consultation with the Home Office and the National Police Chiefs Council, with a focus on supporting HMG's strategic thinking; significant findings emerged from this virtual conference (with an international dimension and involving over 130 participants: there was clarity about both the elusiveness of the SOC threat and vulnerabilities of those involved in counter-SOC policy-making and operations, and a number of recommendations for improving HMG's SOC Strategy emerged focused on changes to Culture, Comprehension and Communications, Capacity & Capabilities. We have presented these findings to the National Crime Agency and to the Home Office and HM Prisons and Probation Service). These two conferences (and related Policy Briefings) represent the culmination of my "Research Integration" efforts, involving 17 recipients of PaCCS TNOC grants, where the Principal Investigators and their teams played an active part in designing and contributing to the conferences. I also managed lower-key "teaming workshops" where teams came together to share insights from their research and identify synergies. This was summarised in a document produced in mid-2022, where we brought together insights and synergies: not only did the researchers themselves register the intention to take these lessons forward in future research, but we also shared these findings with UKRI in case these could be of value from a strategic viewpoint. I have received the following comments on the role of TNOC Research Integrator from several of the PIs linked to the more recent TNOC call. Dr Ella Cockbain (UCL) has commented: ", I particularly appreciated the chances through you to get to know other PIs, learn more about their fascinating work and identify synergies between the different projects funded under the same call. Thought that was really useful. I also thought the placements you facilitated at the National Crime Agency etc were a great idea and valuable addition for Early Career Researchers." Professor Tim Edmunds (University of Bristol) has written: "The integrator part of the TNOC programme worked exceptionally well. The biggest advantage for us on the TOCAS (Transnational Organised Crime at Sea) project was the opportunity for grant holders to meet and share their research (and research processes) with each other. I learned a lot from the work that other colleagues were doing, as well as how they coped with COVID-related issues. Subsequently, colleagues on two of the other grant programmes - Raphael Lefevre and Gernot Klantschnig - joined us as permanent staff at the University of Bristol, so our collaborations continue to this date. The policy impact events were also extremely helpful. They were a great opportunity to disseminate our work on transnational organised crime at sea to non-maritime audiences. We had a lot of very helpful feedback from professionals, for example around the strengths and limitations of informal approaches to cooperation and coordination across regions and sectors. They also provided an opportunity for us to link our own policy interlocutors from the Department for Transport into wider networks of professionals involved in the fight against organised crime. So, in essence, I was very glad we had the integrator grant in place and you in the integrator role. There was very much a sense of the TNOC programme being more than the sum of its parts because of this. I also think this one worked much better - in terms of scholarly community building, research sharing and policy impact - than other similar integrator projects I've been involved with in the past." Dr. Raphael Lefevre (Universities of Oxford and Bristol) has written: "Your role has been crucial in one really important respect: by linking us together project holders intellectually and socially you enriched our perspective as to how to approach TNOC. I learnt a lot from Ella, Tim, Gernot - and their Co-Is as well as project partners. The first workshop held in person in Cambridge was truly invaluable. It created a true network - that's impact. Tim and I meet regularly and update each other on our TNOC research. We talked about the possibility in the medium term of doing co-teaching, as in running together a Master's unit on the Politics of Organised Crime or something like that. This results directly from the interactions we had in Cambridge and then last April (the second, virtual, teaming workshop)." Dr Gernot Klantschnig (University of Bristol) has written: "I plan to mention the Impact/project integrator role in our impact narrative, as a good practice of sharing and learning from colleagues' work on impact, esp for ECRs. I really think UKRI should think of similar roles/ways to link its funded research, not by forcing it into the same topic area, but by getting award holders to share experiences (often in informal ways). I think this has been a really beneficial aspect for me and our team. You learn from each other. One major lesson for me was the flexibility aspect of grants and how different impact activities can look like. Of course, some of this learning is done within our institutions but as our topic areas were linked, so it was a lot of fun as well. In terms of collaboration, Ella Cockbain is organising a special journal issue and conference in June and our project (although it is already finished now) is planning to join in." Finally, we need to acknowledge the impact of the PaCCS Communications Strategy: funding started under the (separate) grant for the Global Uncertainties External Champion (ES/L002582/1) but was continued as part of the work of the TNOC Research Integrator. The work of PaCCS communications throughout the partnership's life course was, primarily, to heighten awareness of the partnership and its portfolio of research; to strengthen capacity among partnership researchers to achieve impact; and to increase a sense of community amongst those working on conflict, crime, and security issues in the UK academic community. In achieving this mission, the PaCCS website became a one-stop shop for those seeking to learn about ongoing research in these areas. In 2020, for example, there were 18,802 unique visitors to the PaCCS website, and over 33,902 pageviews. In that year, 82 news stories and 46 new blog posts were published on the website. Together, these stories and blogs sought to extend the visibility of the work of members of our research network beyond disciplinary silos, and to communicate the findings of research in ways which would be accessible to general audiences - and to interested policymakers. The blog posts themselves largely compromised of interviews conducted by the PaCCS Communications Officer with members of the larger PaCCS research community - including those whose past work had been funded by the research councils and connected with the Global Uncertainties Project. This was an opportunity for researchers to tell their 'research story' - sharing key findings from specific research projects with a broader audience, while creating space for broader reflections on their work and updates on how research council funded projects had shaped their subsequent careers or had resulted in impact well after the life of the primary project had ended. Several interviewees reported that the interview process gave them time and space to reflect on the bigger picture questions within their careers, and to better understand how various components of their work were related to each other. Some interviewees were contacted despite having moved abroad following their previous PaCCS/GU-affiliated work, offering insights into how the legacy of these projects had created a network of global scholars with connections to the UK. A selection of the strongest and most impactful of these blog posts were later edited and condensed into a book - Global Uncertainties: Collected Conversations from the Partnership for Conflict, Crime & Security Research, which was made available open access online; while print copies were also donated to several major university libraries including the Bodleian at Oxford; King's College London; and the University of Cambridge Library. This work - alongside efforts to distribute PaCCS online resources including policy briefings to several other institutions including the Policing College prior to the shut-down of the PaCCS project - will ensure that the legacy of the PaCCS project remains available to the public in a distilled form in the years to come. This legacy offers a snapshot of a period in history, encapsulating the questions pertaining to traditional and non-traditional threats to security which concerned researchers in the first fifth of the 21st century. Other resources available on the PaCCS website included Policy Briefings; an updated research map highlighting the work of relevant institutions in the UK with the aim of helping industry organizations and policymakers easily find relevant expertise; and a collection of multimedia resources and videos (many of which are still available on YouTube) which sought to create space for the public to hear directly from conflict, crime, and security researchers. These types of initiatives, alongside our social media presence, sought to diversify the ways in which the public, policymakers, practitioners, and prospective future scholars might engage with outputs from the PaCCS community. Within this approach, the PaCCS Twitter formed a particular keystone, reaching an international audience of followers largely comprised of academics, academic-affiliated institutions, and third sector organizations. In 2020, as an example, we had 288,400 "impressions" on Twitter.
First Year Of Impact 2020
Sector Government, Democracy and Justice,Security and Diplomacy
Impact Types Societal,Policy & public services
 
Description Contribution to Away-Day of the National Crime Agency's National Assessment Centre (December 2021)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to new or Improved professional practice
URL https://online.pubhtml5.com/cbni/nsac/#p=1
 
Description Guidance to HMG on re-fresh of Integrated Review of Defence, Security and Foreign Policy
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Meeting with Head of Incident Management and a senior policy adviser in the Cabinet Office National Security Secretariat (2018)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Meeting with Public Policy Manager, Google UK (discussing ethics and regulation of Open Source Data and countering online abuse inc terrorism and child-secual exploitation.
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Member of NSTIx Advisory Panel
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Participation in a guidance/advisory committee
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/national-security-technology-and-innovation-exchange
 
Description Participation in Ditchley Park Conference on The Future of Policing in the Digital Age (January 2018)
Geographic Reach Multiple continents/international 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
 
Description Participation in workshop to support Home Office development of Serious Organised Crime Research Strategy (run by Strategic Hub on Organised Crime)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Presentation to and engagement with Colombian National Police Force on transformation of the organisation (June '21)
Geographic Reach South America 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description RISC Council
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
 
Description Submission of written evidence to House of Lords Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning (January 2021)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/media-centre/house-of-lords-media-notices/2020/december-202...
 
Description Virtual Workshop with TiscReport for UK Local Government Leaders on "Progress and Challenges in Tackling Modern Slavery in Local Government Supply Chains". (July 2021)
Geographic Reach Local/Municipal/Regional 
Policy Influence Type Influenced training of practitioners or researchers
Impact We have learnt that one Authority (Stockport Council) published the second iteration of its Modern Slavery Statement in Summer 2021. It includes a series of actions, one of which was: "The Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research is currently undertaking work on tackling modern slavery in local government supply chains. It expects to publish a set of stakeholder-owned recommendations, following a workshop to be held in January 2021, to help inform UK modern slavery policy. The council will consider these recommendations and any additional activity it needs to undertake to address them".
URL https://tiscreport.org/sites/default/files/tisc_report_paccs_policy_briefing_-_progress_challenges_t...
 
Description Knowledge-Broking Roundtables for Counter-Terrorism
Amount £30,000 (GBP)
Funding ID C356.1 
Organisation Home Office 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 10/2022 
End 03/2023
 
Description PaCCS Communications Officer
Amount £70,421 (GBP)
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2019 
End 12/2021
 
Description TNOC Research Integrator (Knowledge Exchange Uplift Grant)
Amount £48,798 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/P00301X/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2020 
End 12/2027
 
Description Collaboration with Home Office's Accelerated Capability Environment, connecting UK researchers to HMG requirements 
Organisation Home Office
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution ACE periodically reaches out for my support in identifying academic researchers to help address pressing requirements faced by the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism inside the Home Office. I have made c 24 recommendations over the last two years to academics around the UK. For instance: a) a request for help in connecting with security research into the 5G connected ecosystem led me to make introductions to REPHRAIN, PETRAS and RITICS programmes led by Professors in Bristol, UCL and Imperial respectively; b) I helped with a request to automate victim data redaction through an introduction to the Chair of the Board of Health Data Research UK; c) in response to a number of cyber/crypto requirements, I introduced them to the 19 Academic Centres of Excellence for Cybersecurity; d) I linked them up to the Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St Andrews for access to "threat actor expertise".
Collaborator Contribution They contribute to my role as an impact champion for PaCCS by producing opportunities for researchers within my network to understand real-world requirements and challenges, with avenues for delivering impact.
Impact As is clear from the above, I have connected ACE to a wide range of different disciplines including Computer Science, Terrorism Studies.
Start Year 2020
 
Description Collaboration with National Crime Agency over Two PaCCS Placements in Q2 2022 
Organisation National Crime Agency
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution We recruited / funded two doctoral students to spend three months supporting the National Assessment Centre of the National Crime Agency by undertaking two projects to help NCA understand (1) the extent to which criminals are involved in multiple SOC crime types, and (2) to help the NCA identify which methodology could be employed to better understand the scale of the criminal use of firearms. These two placements are part of the PaCCS programme Transnational Organised Crime (TNOC): Deepening & Broadening Our Understanding.
Collaborator Contribution The National Crime Agency helped us select the successful candidates, with the Head of Intelligence Analysis sitting on the Final Boards. The Agency also bore the cost of security-clearance for each Placement, and provided supervision and support for the Placements. Critically, the Agency also made data available to allow the research to be conducted.
Impact Each Placement produced an internal report for the National Crime Agency.
Start Year 2022
 
Description PaCCS Placement with Centre for Maritime Law and Security (CEMLAWS), Accra, Ghana 
Organisation Centre for Maritime Law and Security (CEMLAWS)
Country Ghana 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution The PaCCS Placement worked with CEMLAWS in Accra and the Safe Seas Programme at the University of Bristol to undertake research into illicit electronic-waste trafficking between the UK and Ghana. This was satisfactorily completed after a three month project, with a report and PaCCS Policy Briefing being produced. Subsequently, our Placement was involved in a webinar organised by CEMLAWS (see below).
Collaborator Contribution Partners will support the Placement in her work, helping promote delivery of impact from research.
Impact The Placement led to a Policy Briefing that was published in two versions (with a shorter version co-published by SafeSeas at Bristol University and the Centre for Maritime Law and Security in Accra. CEMLAWS and SafeSeas also held a virtual webinar on 20 October 2021. It was entitled "Trading Waste: The UK Ghana Route and the Illicit E Waste Economy" to share insights from the Placement. 110 people registered and c 80 attended; many were from Ghana but there was an international dimension with particiants from c 13 countries. Participants were from variety of backgrounds - policy makers, researchers, transnational organized crime professionals, legal practitioners. CEMLAWS was particularly pleased with involvement of Environmental Officers from the country and from GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) - the German NGO that focuses its support on three areas: agriculture, governance, and sustainable economic development (including e-waste trafficking). Dr Kamal-Deen Ali , theTeam Leader of CEMLAWS Africa has written to me: "In 2021 CEMLAWS Africa had the unique opportunity of project partnership and funding under PaCCS. The 3 months Placement resulted in a detailed research on e-waste movement between UK and Ghana. It brought new understanding and insightful perspectives to the subject of e-waste and CEMLAWS Africa is looking forward to engaging closely with Ghanaian authorities on the recommendations. We equally found the collaboration with PaCCS very useful and hope to deepen the partnership." CEMLAWS is now reaching out to the UK High Commission in Ghana to explore their interest in following up on this Study Report.
Start Year 2020
 
Description PaCCS Placement with Centre for Maritime Law and Security (CEMLAWS), Accra, Ghana 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution The PaCCS Placement worked with CEMLAWS in Accra and the Safe Seas Programme at the University of Bristol to undertake research into illicit electronic-waste trafficking between the UK and Ghana. This was satisfactorily completed after a three month project, with a report and PaCCS Policy Briefing being produced. Subsequently, our Placement was involved in a webinar organised by CEMLAWS (see below).
Collaborator Contribution Partners will support the Placement in her work, helping promote delivery of impact from research.
Impact The Placement led to a Policy Briefing that was published in two versions (with a shorter version co-published by SafeSeas at Bristol University and the Centre for Maritime Law and Security in Accra. CEMLAWS and SafeSeas also held a virtual webinar on 20 October 2021. It was entitled "Trading Waste: The UK Ghana Route and the Illicit E Waste Economy" to share insights from the Placement. 110 people registered and c 80 attended; many were from Ghana but there was an international dimension with particiants from c 13 countries. Participants were from variety of backgrounds - policy makers, researchers, transnational organized crime professionals, legal practitioners. CEMLAWS was particularly pleased with involvement of Environmental Officers from the country and from GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit) - the German NGO that focuses its support on three areas: agriculture, governance, and sustainable economic development (including e-waste trafficking). Dr Kamal-Deen Ali , theTeam Leader of CEMLAWS Africa has written to me: "In 2021 CEMLAWS Africa had the unique opportunity of project partnership and funding under PaCCS. The 3 months Placement resulted in a detailed research on e-waste movement between UK and Ghana. It brought new understanding and insightful perspectives to the subject of e-waste and CEMLAWS Africa is looking forward to engaging closely with Ghanaian authorities on the recommendations. We equally found the collaboration with PaCCS very useful and hope to deepen the partnership." CEMLAWS is now reaching out to the UK High Commission in Ghana to explore their interest in following up on this Study Report.
Start Year 2020
 
Description PaCCS Placement with National Crime Agency 
Organisation National Crime Agency
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution Under the PaCCS Placement Scheme, Dr Zora Hauser from the University of Oxford spent three months undertaking research activities into a Transnational Organised Crime theme of interest to the NCA. The Placement began in Q2 2021.
Collaborator Contribution Our Placement Scheme is designed to encourage and promote Knowledge Exchange between academic researchers (typically at doctoral level) and non-academic stakeholders. The host (in this case the National Crime Agency) gains the benefit of intellectual rigour applied to a topic of their choosing; on behalf of PaCCS we raise academic understanding of a major public sector organisation, supporting current and future delivery of enhanced research impact.
Impact The Head of Intelligence Analysis at the NCA's National Assessment Centre has written of the Placement: "We found it really beneficial and would look to support in the future. We were impressed at how easily Zora settled into the team and also at how efficiently she undertook her data collection and analysis. From day one, it was evident that Zora possessed very good communication (and negotiating) skills. Zora was quick to engage with the various partners (across the agency) and worked with them to understand how Brazilian OCGs operate in the UK. Zora was able to build a good rapport with these partners and as a consequence she wasn't afraid to follow up on various matters, ask probing questions and challenge inferences when appropriate. The team spent a lot of time working with Zora to help her understand some of the data that she was getting back and guiding her through some of the protocols that she needed to follow when handling intelligence and preparing an assessed intelligence product. Given the style of writing that we use in intelligence assessments including the use of probabilistic language, Zora needed to adapt her style and showed aptitude in this regard. We were impressed with the assessment that Zora produced, given the paucity of intelligence around this subject, where she has significantly enhanced our understanding of Brazilian OCG's impact on the UK. Zora engaged with our design team on the presentation of the report. Zora was always very enthusiastic and understood straight away what we were trying to achieve with design and the use of infographics in our assessments. She came up with some great ideas and clearly put a lot of thought into them, which resulted in a very impactful product, which has fed our threat leadership teams that co-ordinate response across the SOC threats. I see real value in bringing academia into the NAC; they bring a different perspective and range of different skillsets that add huge value to our assessments. It took quite a while to facilitate the placement - largely due to some of the NCA processes, but I think now that we have broken the back of this and have a template, we could speed this up. From our perspective it was impactful and great value for money - we achieved an assessment in quick time once Zora started that we otherwise would not have been achieved for some time, given pressures on the team." One additional spin-off from this Placement has been to enthuse the National Assessment Centre about the value thet academic resewrch can bring to their work. I received a long list if requirements, and in February 2022 we launched two new Placements.
Start Year 2020
 
Description PaCCS Placement with Office of the UK's Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner (OIASC) 
Organisation Independent Anti Slavery Commissioner
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Public 
PI Contribution OIASC approached us in 2019 (under the auspices of our PaCCS Placement Scheme) seeking support from a researcher to review research being undertaken into modern slavery and forced labour and to look for opportunities to generate greater impact. The 3-month Placement (awarded to Juliana Semione of Nottingham University) started on 20 January 2020 and the challenge has been refined, with a focus on the following priority challenge for the Commissioner: "is the evidence base on victim care and support informing policy and the work of practitioners in the U.K.?" In Stage 1, our researcher will conduct an exploratory review of academic research on victim care and support in order to identify what research exists and summarise the evidence. Stage 2, will focus on a small number of key research reports and identify what their impact has been. The final output (due to be submitted in April 2020) will outline the findings in an accessible and practical research report, with recommendations for stakeholders .
Collaborator Contribution Our partners (OIASC) are the beneficiaries of this Placement. With Dame Sara Thornton (the Anti-Slavery Commissioner) playing a leading role, they have defined and refined their requirement and provided support in terms of access and introductions to stakeholders inside OIASC and beyond (including the Home Office).
Impact Our Placement led to the production of a report - produced by PaCCS and IASC in July 2020 - entitled "Preparing for Impact: How we can overcome barriers and cultivate a culture of collaboration, understanding, and respect to achieve impact on survivor support". This was presented to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Slavery and has been discussed at a number of workshops and webinars including one organised in 2020 by IASC and one organised in 2021 by the Modern Slavery Policy & Evidence Centre (MSPEC). MSPEC wanted to explore Appendix A of our report, which looks at knowledge consolidation and mentions knowledge brokerage, seeing themselves as a body that might be able to perform this function in the anti-slavery field.
Start Year 2019
 
Description PaCCS Placement with TISC ("Transparency in Supply Chain) Report 
Organisation TISC Report
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Charity/Non Profit 
PI Contribution TISC Report approached us (under the auspices of PaCCS' Placement Scheme) in 2019, seeking the help of a researcher to extract greater value from their database by analyzing data on global supply chains to identify and understand indicators of potential criminal activity (corruption, money laundering, bribery, modern slavery). Following a recruitment process, the Placement was awarded in February 2020 to Yongyu Zeng, a doctoral student at the University of Manchester. She began the placement in April 2020; there was inevitable disruption caused by Covid-19, but she was able to design and disseminate a survey to Local Government officials involved in procurement, and conduct a number of interviews. The quantitative and qualitative research outputs resulted in a report and Policy Briefing entitled "Progress and Challenges in Tackling Modern Slavery in Local Government Supply Chains" which was circulated by TISC Report to stakeholders in UK Local Government and in Government.
Collaborator Contribution The Chief Executive of TISC Report (Jaya Chakrabarti) helped to shape the Job Description and sat on the panel selecting the successful candidate. She was then closely engaged in defining the requirement for the posting, and in supporting the process (including providing access to Local Government contacts, reviewing the draft survey questions, and helping communicate with relevant Local Government officials. She also helped to edit the Report and Policy Briefing and disseminate these to stakeholders. We expect to collaborate with Jaya Chakrabarti in 2021, as plans develop for a workshop with Local Government leaders.
Impact Reference has already been made to the Report and Policy Briefing entitled "Progress and Challenges in Tackling Modern Slavery in Local Government Supply Chains". In July 2021, the PaCCS team supported TiscReport in putting on a Virtual Workshop for UK Local Government Leaders on "Progress and Challenges in Tackling Modern Slavery in Local Government Supply Chains". We secured the services of UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Dame Sara Thornton who opened this event which aimed to discuss and progress findings in the t policy briefing. The Head of TiscReport wrote, in introducing the workshop: "The report identified key challenges and associated recommendations in order to more effectively tackle modern slavery in Local Government Supply Chains which Local Government Leaders are now invited to input into. With the pandemic significantly increasing worker vulnerability within UK supply chains, actions taken by public sector buyers will be critical to increasing the effectiveness of the UK's response."
Start Year 2019
 
Description Team-Building Workshop with Recipients of PaCCS Grants under the "Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime" (April 2019) 
Organisation Cardiff University
Department School of Social Sciences
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution As Research integrator for UKRI's PaCCS call ("Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime"), I brought together five Principal Investigators together with mCo-Is and non-academic stakeholders to share knowledge about their projects and discuss opportunities for collaboration. We gathered for a two-day residential workshop at Cambridge, with an after-dinner talk given by a director of the national Crime Agency.
Collaborator Contribution Knowledge shared. Ideas for working collaboratively to support PaCCs Placements agreed.
Impact Knowledge shared, follow-up action on PaCCS Placements agreed.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Team-Building Workshop with Recipients of PaCCS Grants under the "Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime" (April 2019) 
Organisation University College London
Department Department of Security and Crime Science
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution As Research integrator for UKRI's PaCCS call ("Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime"), I brought together five Principal Investigators together with mCo-Is and non-academic stakeholders to share knowledge about their projects and discuss opportunities for collaboration. We gathered for a two-day residential workshop at Cambridge, with an after-dinner talk given by a director of the national Crime Agency.
Collaborator Contribution Knowledge shared. Ideas for working collaboratively to support PaCCs Placements agreed.
Impact Knowledge shared, follow-up action on PaCCS Placements agreed.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Team-Building Workshop with Recipients of PaCCS Grants under the "Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime" (April 2019) 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution As Research integrator for UKRI's PaCCS call ("Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime"), I brought together five Principal Investigators together with mCo-Is and non-academic stakeholders to share knowledge about their projects and discuss opportunities for collaboration. We gathered for a two-day residential workshop at Cambridge, with an after-dinner talk given by a director of the national Crime Agency.
Collaborator Contribution Knowledge shared. Ideas for working collaboratively to support PaCCs Placements agreed.
Impact Knowledge shared, follow-up action on PaCCS Placements agreed.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Team-Building Workshop with Recipients of PaCCS Grants under the "Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime" (April 2019) 
Organisation University of Oxford
Department New College Oxford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution As Research integrator for UKRI's PaCCS call ("Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime"), I brought together five Principal Investigators together with mCo-Is and non-academic stakeholders to share knowledge about their projects and discuss opportunities for collaboration. We gathered for a two-day residential workshop at Cambridge, with an after-dinner talk given by a director of the national Crime Agency.
Collaborator Contribution Knowledge shared. Ideas for working collaboratively to support PaCCs Placements agreed.
Impact Knowledge shared, follow-up action on PaCCS Placements agreed.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Team-Building Workshop with Recipients of PaCCS Grants under the "Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime" (April 2019) 
Organisation University of York
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution As Research integrator for UKRI's PaCCS call ("Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime"), I brought together five Principal Investigators together with mCo-Is and non-academic stakeholders to share knowledge about their projects and discuss opportunities for collaboration. We gathered for a two-day residential workshop at Cambridge, with an after-dinner talk given by a director of the national Crime Agency.
Collaborator Contribution Knowledge shared. Ideas for working collaboratively to support PaCCs Placements agreed.
Impact Knowledge shared, follow-up action on PaCCS Placements agreed.
Start Year 2019
 
Description Team-Building Workshop with Recipients of PaCCS Grants under the "Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime" (March/April 2022) 
Organisation Cardiff University
Department School of Social Sciences
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution As PaCCS "Research Integrator" my role was to bring together the five Principal Investigators who received grants under this TNOC call, the share insights and techniques. These were Dr Ella Cockbain (UCL), Prof Tim Edmunds (Bristol), Dr Gernot Klantschnig (Bristol), Dr Raphael Lefevre (Oxford), and Prof Mike Levi (Cardiff), Because of the Covid pandemic, we arranged a virtual workshop with Co-Investigators and non-academic stakeholders participating as well. There were keynote presentations from the Head of the National Assessment Centre at the National Crime Agency and ESRC's Head of Society, Governance and Security Research Portfolio. There were 15 participants in total and the aims of the event were: updates from teams on the five projects; reflections on outcomes from PaCCS's 2021 SOC Conference and follow-up actions; input from Guest Speakers; identification of synergies between projects (and consider "so what)?
Collaborator Contribution Active engagement in our workshop, briefing on individual projects and participating in discussions.
Impact We published (on the PaCCS website) insights from the two keynote addresses at our event. We also captured in a sllde-deck a list of synergies and findings around issues to emerge from the workshop - these are summarised under "the Data Challenge", "Problems of Problemitization". and Research Challenges (around Ethics, Definitions, Flexibility and Interdisciplinary Research). It was agreed that individual researchers would take these lessons to apply to their future work; and a copy of the slides has been shared with key contacts in UKRI.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Team-Building Workshop with Recipients of PaCCS Grants under the "Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime" (March/April 2022) 
Organisation University College London
Department Department of Security and Crime Science
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution As PaCCS "Research Integrator" my role was to bring together the five Principal Investigators who received grants under this TNOC call, the share insights and techniques. These were Dr Ella Cockbain (UCL), Prof Tim Edmunds (Bristol), Dr Gernot Klantschnig (Bristol), Dr Raphael Lefevre (Oxford), and Prof Mike Levi (Cardiff), Because of the Covid pandemic, we arranged a virtual workshop with Co-Investigators and non-academic stakeholders participating as well. There were keynote presentations from the Head of the National Assessment Centre at the National Crime Agency and ESRC's Head of Society, Governance and Security Research Portfolio. There were 15 participants in total and the aims of the event were: updates from teams on the five projects; reflections on outcomes from PaCCS's 2021 SOC Conference and follow-up actions; input from Guest Speakers; identification of synergies between projects (and consider "so what)?
Collaborator Contribution Active engagement in our workshop, briefing on individual projects and participating in discussions.
Impact We published (on the PaCCS website) insights from the two keynote addresses at our event. We also captured in a sllde-deck a list of synergies and findings around issues to emerge from the workshop - these are summarised under "the Data Challenge", "Problems of Problemitization". and Research Challenges (around Ethics, Definitions, Flexibility and Interdisciplinary Research). It was agreed that individual researchers would take these lessons to apply to their future work; and a copy of the slides has been shared with key contacts in UKRI.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Team-Building Workshop with Recipients of PaCCS Grants under the "Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime" (March/April 2022) 
Organisation University of Bristol
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution As PaCCS "Research Integrator" my role was to bring together the five Principal Investigators who received grants under this TNOC call, the share insights and techniques. These were Dr Ella Cockbain (UCL), Prof Tim Edmunds (Bristol), Dr Gernot Klantschnig (Bristol), Dr Raphael Lefevre (Oxford), and Prof Mike Levi (Cardiff), Because of the Covid pandemic, we arranged a virtual workshop with Co-Investigators and non-academic stakeholders participating as well. There were keynote presentations from the Head of the National Assessment Centre at the National Crime Agency and ESRC's Head of Society, Governance and Security Research Portfolio. There were 15 participants in total and the aims of the event were: updates from teams on the five projects; reflections on outcomes from PaCCS's 2021 SOC Conference and follow-up actions; input from Guest Speakers; identification of synergies between projects (and consider "so what)?
Collaborator Contribution Active engagement in our workshop, briefing on individual projects and participating in discussions.
Impact We published (on the PaCCS website) insights from the two keynote addresses at our event. We also captured in a sllde-deck a list of synergies and findings around issues to emerge from the workshop - these are summarised under "the Data Challenge", "Problems of Problemitization". and Research Challenges (around Ethics, Definitions, Flexibility and Interdisciplinary Research). It was agreed that individual researchers would take these lessons to apply to their future work; and a copy of the slides has been shared with key contacts in UKRI.
Start Year 2022
 
Description Team-Building Workshop with Recipients of PaCCS Grants under the "Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime" (March/April 2022) 
Organisation University of Oxford
Department New College Oxford
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution As PaCCS "Research Integrator" my role was to bring together the five Principal Investigators who received grants under this TNOC call, the share insights and techniques. These were Dr Ella Cockbain (UCL), Prof Tim Edmunds (Bristol), Dr Gernot Klantschnig (Bristol), Dr Raphael Lefevre (Oxford), and Prof Mike Levi (Cardiff), Because of the Covid pandemic, we arranged a virtual workshop with Co-Investigators and non-academic stakeholders participating as well. There were keynote presentations from the Head of the National Assessment Centre at the National Crime Agency and ESRC's Head of Society, Governance and Security Research Portfolio. There were 15 participants in total and the aims of the event were: updates from teams on the five projects; reflections on outcomes from PaCCS's 2021 SOC Conference and follow-up actions; input from Guest Speakers; identification of synergies between projects (and consider "so what)?
Collaborator Contribution Active engagement in our workshop, briefing on individual projects and participating in discussions.
Impact We published (on the PaCCS website) insights from the two keynote addresses at our event. We also captured in a sllde-deck a list of synergies and findings around issues to emerge from the workshop - these are summarised under "the Data Challenge", "Problems of Problemitization". and Research Challenges (around Ethics, Definitions, Flexibility and Interdisciplinary Research). It was agreed that individual researchers would take these lessons to apply to their future work; and a copy of the slides has been shared with key contacts in UKRI.
Start Year 2022
 
Description "Determining Future Innovation Priorities and Novel Ways of Working Together" NSTIx/RISC Roundtable (July 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This event was part of a series organised by the National Security Technology Innovation Exchange, working with the Security and Resilience Industry Suppliers Community to lay foundations for improvements to supply of innovative solutions to National Security stakeholders. This session discussed how the UK's innovation system for National Security could work more effectively and efficiently in the future. There were three themes: i. Understanding and co-ordinating the future tech environment and co-ordinate the innovation ecosystem; ii. Fostering markets and incentivising partnerships; and iii. Exploitation through co-creation. My input drew on PaCCS Policy Briefings: "Transforming Research into technology" (https://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/policy-briefings/innovation-defence-security/) and "Innovation Challenges in Cybersecurity" (https://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/policy-briefings/cyber-security/).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description "Lunch and Learn" Event for Home Office's Modern Slavery Unit (July 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Following our Placement with the Office of the independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner we launched PaCCS Policy Briefing entitled "Preparing for Impact How we can overcome barriers and cultivate a culture of collaboration, understanding, and respect to achieve impact on survivor support" (https://www.antislaverycommissioner.co.uk/media/1433/iasc-review-preparing-for-impact-july-2020.pdf). We were then invited by the Home Office's Modern Slavery Unit to organise a tarining session for their staff, where we would relay insights from the research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description "UK Security Procurement: DSIS and beyond": digital roundtable discussion organised by RISC and JSaRC (July 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The Security and Resilience Industry Suppliers Community and HMG's Joint Security and Resilience Centre invited participants ato discuss the topic of procurement in the national security and resilience sector, drawing on their past and present experiences. To help structure the discussion, there were two 25 minute roundtable discussions on: i) Key ingredients for successful collaborations; and, ii) Developing stronger collaborations for the future. I was able to introduce insights from the PaCCS Policy Briefing "Transforming Research into Technology: innovation for Defence and Security" (https://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/policy-briefings/innovation-defence-security/).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description A Ditchley Director's Dinner Modern Exploitation: Technology, Slavery and Human Trafficking 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact We persuaded the Director of Ditchley Park to convene a meeting of influencers to discuss the issue of technology and slavery. In the words of the Director: "Technology is changing the means and perhaps the nature of exploitation, just as it is transforming other business models. We want to explore whether this is only a question of acceleration of existing forms of exploitation or whether new forms are emerging thanks to the capabilities of the technology and other effects. Most importantly we aim to discuss how emerging technologies might be turned against exploiters, traffickers and other criminals. Guests for the evening will include influential politicians, senior police officers, tech leaders and civil society advocates alongside other experts. We aim to connect people across silos of expertise and to generate new ideas that can be further developed later in a more structured setting. We are pleased to be working with the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge to bring together a group at Ditchley. Our speaker for the evening will be Kevin Bales CMG. Kevin is Professor of Contemporary Slavery at the University of Nottingham, co-author of the Global Slavery Index, and was a co-founder and previously president of Free the Slaves. For sixty years the Ditchley Foundation has brought influential and expert people together to help redefine and renew our society, democracy and alliances. More information about the Foundation and its home Ditchley Park can be found at www.ditchley.com."
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Advice to Cabinet Office (PHIA) on improving access to academics (May 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I was approached by a member of the PHIA (Professional Head of Intelligence Analysis) team inside the Cabinet Office, seeking advice on how to improve access to sources of insight from academic research. This was provided.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Assessment Panel for Cyber ASAP Year 4 (July 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Cyber Academic Start-up Accelerator Programme is run by the Knowledge Transfer Network for DCMS. This event provides critical support to c 13 academic teams developing cybersecurity solutions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Assessment Panel for CyberASAP Year 5 (May 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Cyber Academic Start-up Accelerator Programme is run by the Knowledge Transfer Network for DCMS. This event provides critical support to academic teams developing cybersecurity solutions. This was the market validation stage, with 14 projects remaining on the programme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Briefing to HM Prisons and Probation Service about findings of "Maximising Impact from SOC Research" Conference (June 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact There was interest from HMPPS in learning and discussing the lessons from our 2021 Conference and the related Policy Briefing.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Chair/Convene Virtual Panel on Transnational Organised Crime for CSaP Annual Conference (June 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I convened a panel to discuss progress with academic responses to the Home Office's 2018 Strategic Priorities for Serious Organised Crime Research. The panel consisted of the Head of Home Office SOC Research, the Director of RUSI's Crime Unit, and Professor of Criminology from Plymouth University. There was an extensive discussion afterwards and follow-up action included the new Head of SOC Research at the Home Office taking up the PaCCS Fellowship in Q1 2021 and plans for a PaCCS conference around Home Office priorities in Q3 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/news/article-serious-organised-crime/
 
Description Chairing Round-Table re "Decision Making Under Stress in the Information Age" (February 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I was invited by Cambridge's Centre for Science and Policy to chair and convene a gathering of experts to address a question posed by the Defence Science and Technology Lab (Dstl) relating to challenges faced in decision-makers in a crisis and under stress given problems of data volume, velocity, variety, and veracity. The aim was to help Dstl resolve questions about the clarity and pertinence of the issues.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Chairing Seminar on "Countering Cybercrime: Building Partnerships of Interdisciplinary Research and CrossSector Stakeholders" at CSaP Annual Conference (June 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The Annual Conference of Cambridge's Centre for Science and policy was held in the Royal Society in June 2019, under the overarching theme of "Emerging Technologies and the Future of Public Policy". I was asked to chair a session on cybercrime and I brought together representatives from the Home Office, Dstl and RAND Europe.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Chairing part of SHOC (Strategic Hub on Organised Crime Research) at RUSI (23-24 October 2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact A gathering of people from different spheres interested in Organised Crime research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Cyber ASAP (Academic Start-up Accelerator Programme) Year 4 Assessment Panel (May 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact TheCyber ASAP programme - at least partially inspired by the PaCCS Policy Briefing "Innovation Challenges in Cybersecurity" contributes to a core objective of the UK Government Department of Digital, Creative, Media and Sport (DCMS): to develop and sustain a security sector that meets national security demands as part of the government's £1.9billion national cyber security strategy. In helping accelerate the roll out of great cyber security ideas from universities, CyberASAP provides a dynamic interface between government, cyber security academics and the business and investment communities. At the assessment stage, our panel filters applications throigh listening to - and questions - applicants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk/competition/543/overview
 
Description Discussion with Virginia Eyre, Deputy Director Cyber Policy, Directorate for State Threats and Cyber in Homeland Security Group, Home Office (June 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I was invited to brief Ms Eyre on the outcome of our conference on "Maximising Impact for SOC Research", which had included a strand on cybercrime. We were joined by two of her team leaders.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Ditchley Park Conference on The Future of Policing in the Digital Age (January 2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Ditchley Foundation brought together senior police officers from the UK, the USA and elsewhere (Europol, Pakistan, Singapore) to meet with thought-leaders in a three day closed conference to discuss the future of policing. The event was chaired by Cressida Dick, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and included her members of her senior team, the Chief Constable leading the National Police Chiefs Council, the Deputy Director of the National Crime Agency, and the Deputy Mayor of London responsible for Policing; the head and deputy of New York Police Department and the Director of the International Association of Chiefs of Police were also present. There was extensive discussion about the challenges facing Law Enforcement Agencies in tackling terrorism, cybercrime and traditional "physical" crimes and as an active participant in these discussions I drew on my two PaCCS projects (as Eternal Champion and TNOC Research Integrator) to inform debate: I made three PaCCS Policy Papers available to discussants: "Transforming Research into Technology: Innovation for Defence and Security", http://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/policy-briefings/innovation-defence-security/#; "NCA Requirements for Social and Behavioural Science", http://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/REPORT_NCA-Requirements-Social-and-Behavioural-Sciences_FINAL-V2.0.pdf; and "Countering Violent Extremism through Media and Communication Strategies". An immediate outcome was passing questions that arose in relation to cyber-crime into the PaCCS team at RCUK to inform thinking about a new call on Transnational Organised Crime Research. My interventions around innovation also struck a chord with senior police officers (including the chair, Cressida Dick).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Engagement with Oxford Martin Global Cybersecurity Capacity Centre re Cybersecurity Maturity Model (February 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact As a member of the Working Party at the Centre, I participate in periodic discussions to update the Cybersecurity Maturity Model used in engagements with overseas Governments to assess the quality/maturity of their nations' cybersecurity. This event was reviewing the latest version.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/cyber-security/
 
Description HO Academic RiSC Workshop: Consultation re Home Office on proposals to introduce a UK Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (June '21) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The Home Office was seeking views in a consultation exercise focused on legislative proposals (designed to be country and actor agnostic) which include: Reform of the Official Secrets Acts 1911, 1920 and 1939 - these Acts contain the core espionage offences which have failed to keep pace with the threat and modern legal standards; Reform of the Official Secrets Act 1989 - which governs the law around the unauthorised disclosure of official material; and the creation of a Foreign Influence Registration (FIR) scheme - a register of activity undertaken for or on behalf of a foreign state would provide the government with a versatile new tool to help combat hostile activity in key areas of threat, as well as to provide a greater awareness of foreign influence currently being exerted in the UK. This could help increase the risk to those seeking to engage in, for example, espionage, interference or the transfer of data related to research in sensitive subject areas.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Hosting CSaP Policy Workshop for Dstl on "Future threats and challenges of quantum technologies" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I was invited to open and participate in this event, arranged by Cambridge's Centre for Science and Policy for the Defence Science and Technology Labs. It was chaired by Sir Richard Mottram and explored the threats posted to defence and security by emerging quantum technologies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Interview/article published on KTN website offering advice to participants in Cyber Academic Start-up Accelerator Programme (Nov 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I was asked by the team at KTN (the Knowledge Transfer Network located within Innovate UK) to write a piece offering advice to participants in Cyber Academic Start-up Accelerator Programme on how to maximise their chances of transforming their cybersecurity research into successful and profitable products and services.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://ktn-uk.org/news/looking-for-investment-to-develop-your-start-up-tap-into-the-expertise-of-ou...
 
Description Invitation to meet Director of Ditchley Park Foundation (20 July 2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact I was invited to explore with the Director issues that could inform the Ditchley Park Programme going forward, including opportunities to extract innovation from research. As a result of the discussion, I have been invited to attend a new event, taking place in January 2018, entitled "The Future of Policing and Technology Conference".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Jemima Hodgkinson, Head of Prosperity Policy and Programme, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (October 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Jemima leads part of the Digital Access Programme, the UK Government's flagship "digital for development" programme. Jemima has been a civil servant since 2015, in roles including civil service efficiency & reform (Cabinet Office), economic diplomacy (Foreign and Commonwealth Office), and trade policy (Department for International Trade). Jemima came to Cambridge under the Fellowship Scheme organised by the Centre for Science and Policy, I was invited to discuss her objectives given overlap with PaCCS. Her aims from the Fellowship are to: share ideas about the role of cybersecurity and digital technology in economic prosperity, helping better understand the potential benefits (and pitfalls); think more broadly about the way that the UK engages with other countries on cybersecurity capacity, and how we can do this more effectively; investigate the relationship between short/medium-term programme objectives and longer-term policy goals.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Launch of PaCCS Placement Report "Preparing for Impact" at All-Party Parliamentary Group on Modern Slavery (June 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact We were invited by the APPG on Modern Slavery to launch the report with findings from the PaCCS Placement with the Office of the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner:
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.antislaverycommissioner.co.uk/media/1433/iasc-review-preparing-for-impact-july-2020.pdf
 
Description Meeting with Alina Dimofte, Public Policy and Government Affairs Manager, Google 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Alina Dimofte visited Cambridge as a Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy, and engaged in a series of one-to-one meetings with individuals well-placed to help her address issues of concern in her work. Her aims were: to meet researchers and academics working on issues relating to online content regulation, free speech, and market competitiveness to get an overview of what drives their perspectives on the future of online regulation; to learn more about data-driven research on online harms and take back suggestions on how platforms can work to improve user safety; and to establish connections with scholars to be able to facilitate partnerships and information sharing on the longer term.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Meeting with Arathi Sethumadhavan (Head of User Experience and AI at Microsoft) re her World Economic Forum Fellowship project (November 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact She briefed me on her WEF Fellowship, exploring the potential for AI to help combat human trafficking or child sexual exploitation (CSE). She will spend 8 hours a week on this (for a year). She was starting with a 3-month scoping project, and was looking for areas of focus. I said that I was aware that there were some possible synergies with Stop the Traffik and with the CSE Investigations Unit it London's Metropolitasn Police. I made introductions to each.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Meeting with Callum Maxwell, Head of Wider Public Sector Cyber Defence, Government Security Group, Cabinet Office (May '21) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Callum Maxwell was visiting Cambridge as a Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy. This includes one-to-one sessions with experts such as myself, designed to address strategic questions. His Objectives were: "to study and reflect upon instances of effective leadership in the fields of cyber security and public policy, and to apply those lessons to my own policy role at the Cabinet Office; to accurately frame the work of the Wider Public Sector Cyber Resilience Team within the wider strategic initiatives and priorities of Government - using the expertise in CSaP to apply specific consideration to the NCSS and the Integrated Review, as well as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Government cyber security; to explore how the relationship between political decision-makers and apolitical advisors in the Cabinet Office can be most effectively managed to foster cooperation and genuine delivery regarding Government cyber security; to explore how central-Government policy coordination and oversight teams can most effectively foster cooperation with the delivery partners of the wider public sector; to further understand the complex and ever-changing environment of cyber technologies, threats, risks that impact the wider public sector. This includes building an awareness of what other governments and private sector organisations are doing to understand the dynamic cyber security landscape; to explore the applicability of practical ethics to the cybersecurity initiatives of the UK Government, and to consider how central Government can more effectively integrate ethical considerations into its cyber security leadership, decision-making, policies and operations. His questions were: 1. What are the primary cyber threats, risks and trends that have the greatest impact on the UK Government's wider public sector? 2. What impact does emerging technologies (such as artificial intelligence or 'Smart City' technology) have on the cyber security postures across the wider public sector? 3. How can the Government Cyber Defence Team most effectively communicate and advocate cyber priorities, policy and strategy to political decision makers and across the diverse stakeholders of the wider public sector? 4. What can the Cabinet Office learn from the cyber security strategies and operations of other public and private sector organizations (both across the UK and internationally)? How could these lessons most effectively improve Cabinet Office strategies and policies? 5. What does the application of practical ethics to cyber security strategies and operations - as coordinated by the Government Security Group - reveal about central-Government decision making, leadership, policies, and operations?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Meeting with Camilla Thompsell, Home Secretary's Deputy Principal Private Secretary (National Security & Public Safety) Home Office (March 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This engagement was linked to Camilla Thompsell's fellowship with Cambridge's Centre for Science and Policy, where she is seeking advice and guidance to support the following objectives: explore key strategic drivers that will impact how we respond to national security and public safety issues over the next 30 years (including Organised Crime, Extremism, Terrorism and Hostile State Actors); link up with academics involved in research in areas where HO has a poor evidence base [including on hidden harms] to develop a stronger understanding of data and modelling around these issues; build a strong network of experts to bring to the centre of the Home Office and help support Home Office policy-making and advising the Home Secretary. There is a close fit between her interests and the PaCCS Programme generally; in particular, plans for a PaCCS Conference on Transnational Organised Crime focused on supporting the Home Office's strategic objectives in this area. We covered a lot of ground in our discussion and I provided her with the PaCCS Policy Briefing "Understanding Transnational Organised Crime in the 21st Century" and the PaCCS report on shaping future security research,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Meeting with Dan Shah, Director of Research, British Council (January 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Dan Shah was visiting Cambridge as a Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy. In this capacity, he meets individuals well-placed to help him build a broad perspective around issues of concern to him in his work. His objectives were to: understand the state of the discipline in Soft Power and Cultural Relations, and gain insight to deploy in the refresh of the British Council's Research and Evidence strategy, and the development of the BC's strategy for 2020-2025; improve the contribution rigorous research can make to policy development, such as the HMG Soft Power strategy and other initiatives, through the British Council's own research, partnerships with academia, and networks (including through a recently convened Soft Power Group); deepen understanding of how our work in core areas, such as education, the arts, and civil society, contributes to influence, attraction and connectivity in addition to development, and the distinctive characteristics (where relevant) of a Cultural Relations approach. In particular, to help develop what may become a significant ongoing programme of work convening debates around values in international relations; deepen his understanding of relevant methodological approaches and how to operationalise access and use of the British Council's reach and assets in these areas, for example in business data sets, large social media portfolio, global physical presence, archives, as potential research assets (including for potential academic collaborators); increase networks to leading figures in the field in the UK and internationally in the context of plans to launch an international cultural relations research network.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Meeting with Director of Urban Villages, Racial Equality & Communities in Transition at the Northern Ireland Executive. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I received a visit from Linsey Farrell, interested in gathering insights from researchers into methods that could be used to understand challenging marginalised communities in Northern Ireland. I shared a number of our outputs (notably the PaCCS Policy Briefing on Religion and Contemporary Security Challenges, and the Evidence Review on Countering Violent Extremism through Media and Communication Strategies). I also offered a number of introductions.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Meeting with Dr Jason Shepherd, Director, Analysis and Innovation at Thomson Reuters Special Services International 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Dr Jason Shepherd is leading the government and financial analysis teams for Thomson Reuters Special Services International. He came to talk to me as part of his fellowship with Cambridge University's Centre for Science and Policy, where he was seeking insight to a number of strategic questions:

1. What models exist for managing large volumes of information and contextual knowledge, from which policy makers might learn? [Traditional approaches such as the structure of a Policy department, mainstream media, and academic peer review and publication, struggle with volume, velocity and variety; as well as with a race to the bottom in pricing. What alternatives are emerging?]

2. What formal discipline exists for modelling knowledge and how it flows through a community? [Data structures, and information models, are increasingly well-explored concepts, whether through ontologies or taxonomies. However, making use of information increasingly depends on recognising its context, its relevance, and its implications; higher order concepts that appear to have fewer formal treatments. Weaknesses in managing these concepts lead to security failures; strength leads to the ability to Understand (in current military parlance), or Orient, more quickly.]

3. How is the economy of information exchange evolving and likely to continue to evolve? [The world is awash with information at the moment, and much of it is freely available at the point of use. With little direct investment in information products, we have seen them turn into 'attention retainers' for parallel monetised services. Mainstream media turns to the paywall, to syndication, and to specialisation. How far can this go, and where does it end? Is there any way to press back on the accumulation of influence by a few individuals or corporations?]

4. How could Governments invest in the positive externalities of long-term and pre-positioned information gathering capabilities in the current climate? [Governments benefit from the positive externality of a pre-positioned information economy capable of providing I&W, insight, monitoring, and a channel through which to shape events. However, their immediate impact on the sector, through the transactional purchase of goods and services, and the regulation of investment and quality, does not address this explicitly. What policies for procurement and regulation might lead to the development of long term, pre-positioned capability?]

5. What is the state of the art in the representation of conceptual and contextual knowledge that could allow its use by AI? [AI and ML have begun to deliver huge operational benefits in the handling of data and information. AGI remains 'just around the corner', though, and one aspect of that is the 'general knowledge' that distinguishes a 24 year-old biological intelligence from a 24 month-old silicon one. What steps have been taken to access and codify general knowledge to enable AI to put information in context and recognise significance?]

6. How can we apply AI to assist in knowledge curation? [Can we use AI to help generate the 'instant expert' that human policy makers are increasingly called upon to be? Can AI help triage vast volumes of data for truthful, relevant, or significant knowledge? How would this scale? Where in the economy could such AI reside?]

We covered the area widely, and I made an introduction to David Mair in the EU's Directorate General for R&D who had recently written "Understanding Our Political Nature: How to Put Knowledge and Reason at the Heart of Political Decision-Making".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Meeting with Enrique Cadenas, Team Leader in the HM Courts and Tribunal Service Strategy team (June 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I met Enrique Cardenas as part of a programme of one-to-one meetings organised by Cambridge University's Centre for Science and Policy (CSaP): he was a CSaP Fellow visiting Cambridge to meet researchers who could discuss with him questions arising from his work developing significant parts of his organisation's strategy, including: justice reform; data sharing and innovation; constitutional reform; international strategy; public confidence; performance management. He was particularly interested in my CSaP Fellowship Report from 2012 ("Improving the Relationship between National Security Challenges & Academic Research") - www.csap.cam.ac.uk/links/13/435/ - and PaCCS's Placement Programme for Doctoral Students, and I followed up with information about these.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Meeting with Gordon Corera, BBC Security Correspondent (November 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact In November 2019, I introduced Mr Corera to PaCCS's new Communications Officer, and provided him with a broad briefing on the Global Uncertainties and PaCCS programme.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Meeting with Hannah Edwards, Head of Exploitation Projects, Home Office (May 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Hannah was visiting Cambridge as a Fellow at the Centre for Science and Policy, with a number of questions linked to her work:

1. Given the known limitations of traditional surveying for hidden and community-specific crimes (e.g. forced marriage, female genital mutilation, child sexual exploitation and abuse), how can we develop reliable prevalence estimates to inform policy? What methods and messaging work to encourage reporting?

2. What do we understand to be the relationship between childhood trauma and adolescent risk taking, and what best practice exists for diverting young people away from harm?

3. What are the benefits of a gendered approach to individuals with multiple complex needs in the criminal justice system?

4. What is the role of technology in closing - rather than creating - opportunities for exploitation and abuse? How can we balance privacy and human rights with the need to protect people from these crimes?

5. How can we use behavioural insights to understand the way people act differently in the online to the offline world, and reverse the trend of increasingly extreme and abusive activity online?

6. How can we maximise the benefits and mitigate the risks of using predictive analytics to better target limited social welfare resources, and what is the role of professional judgement?

In a wide-ranging discussion, I was able to draw her attention to a number of research projects and researchers (inside and outside the Global Uncertainties and PaCCS programmes) that could inform her work. These included: Professor Kevin Bales' work with Professor Bernard Silverman (former CSA at the Head Office) on Multiple Systems Estimation as a method for measuring the number of slaves in Britain today; this was employed in the following project: https://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/modern-slavery-meaning-measurement/; Dr Adam Baird (Coventry University) has done interesting work on gender and crime (specifically masculine violence), including this project in our programme: https://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/breaking-bad-dr-adam-baird/; the Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University, led by Professor Tim Grant; the What Works Centre for Crime Reduction which Prof Gloria Laycock (UCL) has been running (https://esrc.ukri.org/about-us/50-years-of-esrc/outlook-at-50/gloria-laycock/); the work of Prof Per-Olof Wikstrom (https://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/People/professor-per-olof-wikstrom) on children/adolescents and crime.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Meeting with Home Office's Accelerated Capability Environment (ACE) (Sept 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The Office of Security and Counter-Terrorism inside the Home Office has set up the Accelerated Capability Environment (ACE) to address fast-changing digital and technological challenges facing law enforcement, national security, and other government agencies. They look to work with industry and academia to deliver front-line mission impact at pace. I was invited to act as a broker, inviting academics to engage on specific topics of interest. [For instance, I have subsequently introduced Prof Colin Self, University of Newcastle, to advise on chemical sensors for threat materials; and Prof Tom Sorell from University of Warwick to advice on data ethics.]
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Meeting with Luke Godwin, HM Treasury, to discuss questions around understanding and mitigating risks to financial stability. (March 2023) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Luke Godwin came to visit me for a one-to-one conversation in Cambridge as part of a programme organised by the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge. His objectives were to gain develop his thinking in more strategic terms about future risks to UK critical infrastructure; to engage with a diverse group of stakeholders to gain different views on issues crucial to national security; and to build a network outside of government and my usual peer group who can challenge his assumptions. He brought a number of questions including: where should the line sit between the public and private sector in national security and resilience; and what technological changes or geopolitical issues will threaten the finance sector's resilience in the next 5 years? We covered a number of issues, including reference to the work of Professor John Preston (former Global Uncertainties Fellow) at the University of Essex around Government responses to disasters; my PaCCS work with UKRI identifying strategic security challenges; and my Policy Briefing on "Innovation Challenges in Cybersecurity"; and strategic responses to threats from Transnational Organised Crime.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Meeting with Max Beverton-Palmer, Head of Internet Policy, The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (May '21) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact Max came to see me in his capacity as a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge's Centre for Science and Policy. I was able to help him with the following Objectives and Questions: Objectives: Political strategy: The fellowship offers a fantastic opportunity to connect up academic research with broader political debates. We are consciously political in our policy work; I see my role as turning recommendations and academic thinking into something politically actionable. Collaboration: As far as possible we want our policy recommendations to be radical (but implementable). My objective would be to use the meetings to creatively test radical ideas and collaboratively build solutions, based on the work of the other fellows and academic experts. Research expertise: I have mapped out a specific work programme for the next year (reflected in the questions below). We're a small team and drawing on the deep research of the University would enhance our ability to create transformative recommendations. Multi-disciplinary approach: Cambridge University has particular experts in digital government, in geopolitics and tech innovation that I would like to work with. The call for multi-disciplinary policy making has become a truism, but my objective from the meetings would be to put that into practice. Questions.
A. FOREIGN POLICY, GEOPOLITICS AND TECH: CAN WE BUILD A BETTER MODEL OF GLOBAL COOPERATION AND COLLABORATION THAT BUILDS ON THE BENEFITS OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION? 1. What does global tech policy and cooperation actually look like, is it even possible? How do we make a go of it given
that the drivers of change are global tech companies and platforms? 2. Should we and can we build new multinational systems of cooperation that include big tech as well as nation states? 3. How do you address potential problems with the way internet rules are decided and negotiated? I.e. system thinking and design, open networks, multilateral cooperation B. ETHICS: AI AND INTERNET 4.Wh at is the liberal, progressive vision for a future internet that can help build more open, progressive and global societies? How can international collaboration achieve that? 5. How should social sciences be reflected in technology standards developments? Does politics belong here? 6. Is there such a thing as queer design in tech and policy? How can the concept of 'queering' be thought of within tech policy? C. FUTURE MODELS OF REGULATION 7. How can we build regulation as a service and bring forward innovations in reg tech? 8. Are the models of self-, co- and statutory regulation still fit for purpose? 9. How do we co-design new models of regulatory cooperation?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Meeting with Olivia Hesketh, Director of Policy Impact Modern Slavery and Human Rights Policy and Evidence Centre (February 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact I was introduced to Olivia - who was previously in the Home office Modern Slavery Unit and who has recently moved to her role at the MS PEC - by Francesca Lace at ESRC. In the course of a wide-ranging discussion I was able to share guidance and insights into the challenges and opportunities of promiting impact from academic research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Meeting with Sam Cannicott, Head of the Policy & Projects team at the UK Government's Centre for Data Ethics & Innovation (November '21) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I met Mr Cannicott as part of his programme as a Policy Fellow at Cambridge's Centre for Science and Policy. As Head of the Policy & Projects team at the UK Government's Centre for Data Ethics & Innovation, he oversees the Centre's collaborative work with other organisations, supporting them to develop and deploy data driven technology responsibly. His project portfolio includes work with police forces, the Ministry of Defence, local authorities and the Department for Education.

His objectives were: to explore some of the higher-level challenges linked to his projects and the Centre's wider work, meeting experts in their field; to develop his own expertise by engaging with academic experts and challenging my own thinking; to seek fresh perspectives and work to understand how academic thinking can be practically applied to the challenges Government faces in developing, deploying and governing AI; to bring new thinking, ideas and challenge to my team- as well as a wider network of expertise which can be leveraged by the CDEI in the future; and to support academics to apply their work to current policy challenges and test their ideas in current/real world settings.

His Questions were:
1. How can the state, when considering regulation as well as the deployment of AI in public services, consistently evaluate potential risks or harms against the benefits of deploying particular data driven technologies?
2. How should we define public benefit and consider it alongside privacy when it comes to sharing data and developing or deploying data driven technologies?
3. How can data and predictive analytics be used responsibly to incentivize healthy life choices?
4. How should consent be addressed when it comes to the deployment of connected devices in the public space and public services (e.g. smart cities, transportation, care homes)?
5. How should we approach accountability, explainability and transparency when it comes to the deployment of AI by defence, security and intelligence agencies?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Meeting with Tom McNeil, Strategic Adviser to West Midlands Police & Crime Commissioner & Strategic Board Member (June '21) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Tom McNeil visited me in his capacity as a Policy Fellow and Cambridge University's Centre for Science and Policy. He came with the following Objectives: keep up to date with cutting edge developments in the uses of AI and the debates surrounding them; building an awareness of leading thinkers in relation to some of the questions outlined below; continue to build my knowledge of the scientific horizon; offer academics insights into his own work.

He had the following Questions:
1. How can technology be used to better enable real time multi-agency data sharing within the public sector in a way that is affordable, adaptable and flexible in terms of new functionality and issues such as data visualisation?

2. How can technology be used to enable 'widespread and mass' high quality public engagement and deliberation on complex public policy issues, including issues of science?

3. What are some of the current debates around key models of predictive artificial intelligence, in terms of predictive power, and how can these data science issues be made accessible to non-data scientists?

4. What are some of the emerging technologies in the online space or virtual arenas, including developments surrounding the dark web, cyber security in online public infrastructure or covert online communication tools?

5. Is there 'specific' thinking around the detail of what new law and regulation might look like for emerging technology such as live facial recognition?

6. What is some of the current thinking about the kind of responsibilities large technology organisations should take in terms of internal ethics within their technology design and the nature of who they will partner with or the limitations on the types of projects they will engage with in a public sector context?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Meeting withMark Prince, Head of Digital Trade Policy & Negotiations, Department for International Trade (October 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Mark Prince came to meet me in the course of his Fellowship with cambridge's Centre for Science and Policy. He was meeting sources of ideas and guidance to inform a programme with the following objectives: "The increased emphasis on digital policy both within trade, but also more broadly within society reflects shifts in the modern economy. My objective for the Policy Fellowship is to develop my thinking on the links between the modern economy and prosperity for all of society. By tapping into the wealth of knowledge and breadth of thought available from CSaP experts, I plan to explore several topics that link the global digital economy to regional development within the UK. My proposition goes beyond the remit of my trade policy role, to investigate the wider impacts of the digital and tech economy. During this policy fellowship I will explore the opportunities and benefits of the digital economy and its ability to deliver prosperity for the whole of the UK. I plan to do this by factoring in the needs and interests of UK regions, particularly those with different levels of economic prosperity. I will identify benefits from the digital revolution that will be available to all citizens, consumers and civil society, whichever part of the UK they are located in. Furthermore, I intend to highlight opportunities for UK to ensure that the digital revolution brings benefits for the whole country. Ultimately this research aims to contribute to UK society and industry by presenting new ideas to support the economic development of the UK's regions"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Meeting/Briefing Luke Hughes; Senior Policy Adviser, Exploitation Projects Team, Home Office (October 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Luke Hughes' key objective would be to gain a better understanding of the research landscape relevant to his current policy area and other 'big picture' issues with public policy implications. Having only recently moved into the social policy area, he would like to build his networks both within academia and the wider public policy arena, to give him sources of challenge and external perspective on policy issues that he works on now or in the future.

Within the Exploitation Projects team, Luke and his colleagues can generate ideas for projects from a variety of sources, including academia. The project outputs enjoy considerable senior interest within and beyond the Home Office. Luke would be keen to get researchers' insights into where we could be focusing our efforts.
Questions.
1. What do we know about how and why people become child sex offenders, and how might we intervene?
2. How and why do people's conceptions of ethics and morality vary between the offline and online worlds?
3. How might we measure the long-term impacts, at an individual and population level, of intervening in response to risk factors at an early stage in a young person's life?
4. In which country is it best to be a child, and what have they done right?
5. Companies and political campaigns are able to use sophisticated online data analytics to micro-target consumers and voters. How could the state micro-target citizens for the delivery of public services, in an ethical, legal and publicly acceptable way?
6. Much has been claimed for the potential for blockchain technology beyond cryptocurrency. What are its genuine advantages and areas of potential, and what are the implications for public policy?

In discussion, we were able to address to a number of these questions, with introductions being made to the work of Dr Anna Sergi (PaCCS Placement into the National Crime Agency) and Prof Kevin Bales (PaCCS researcher and leading expert on Modern Slavery).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Meeting/Briefing Salma Shah, Special Adviser to the Home Secretary with responsibiity for strategy and communication across the department. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I received a visit from Salma Shah in December 2018, as part of her Fellowship at Cambridge's Centre for Science and Policy. Her objectives were to establish policy processes focused solely on data, and scientific evidence; to broaden the network of academics for the Home Office's senior staff; to create better functions of challenge in the department; and to find ways of making finite amounts of money go further. She had a range of questions about security, policing and crime reduction.

There was follow-up action to an open-ended and wide-ranging discussion: I sent her a copy of the "Venture Catalyst Report" that I wrote when in Government (which has informed the PaCCS Academic Marketplace); I sent her links to the newly-created National Security Strategic Investment Fund;I introduced her to Prof Anthony Finkelstein (the National Security Chief Scientific Advisor); and set in train a visit to SeeQuestor (a company that has spun-out from PaCCS-funded research).

I have subsequently sent her a copy of the PaCCS Policy Briefing "Understanding Transnational Organised Crime in the 21st Century", emerging from the TNOC Research Intregrator grant.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Meeting/Briefing Tom McDonald, Director, Home Affairs and Cyber Security Value for Money Audit, National Audit Office (November 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Mr Macdonald recognises that one of the characteristics of working in - and therefore auditing - this area of government is that many of the problems are partially hidden, making it hard to assess their prevalence and the success or failure of any action taken against them. Obvious examples of this include illegal immigration, terrorism and different kinds of crime. In these areas many individuals are positively trying to hide their presence, identity or activities. This means that government struggles to know what the scale of each problem is and whether its activities in response are proportionate or cost-effective. He was seeking help develop his own thinking and understanding by: (i) improving the quality and clarity of thinking on new subjects; (ii) establishing what the NAO's unique angle on a problem or areas of expenditure might be and how we could achieve impact from it; and (iii) thinking creatively about responding to proposals or ideas from elsewhere.

Specific questions were:

1. Working towards improving the NAO's audit of government responses to issues such as illegal immigration, terrorism and different kinds of crime, and specifically considering those individuals or groups engaged in illegal and harmful activities (e.g. cyber-crime, terrorism, serious and organised crime),
a. How can we most effectively measure and evaluate both the scale of, and interventions to tackle, more 'hidden' public policy problems such as crime or terrorism?
b. What kind of methodologies could go beyond the typical NAO methods, e.g. file review, interview and quantitative analysis? Are there methodologies from other disciplines suited to unlocking this kind of policy area?

2. What combination of using primary data, carrying out secondary research and employing other methods can researchers already working in related fields (e.g. criminology, cyber security, extremism/terrorism etc) recommend?

3. What can we learn from fields outside public policy about novel ways of understanding and evaluating both the scale of, and interventions to tackle, hidden issues? I am keen to discuss this evidential challenge with researchers from disparate fields with less obvious connections to my fields of inquiry (e.g. ancient history, astronomy, archaeology) but which share the challenge of a limited and partly hidden evidence base. Thinking more laterally, it could also be interesting to meet colleagues involved in considering the nature of knowledge itself.

In a wide-ranging conversation, we covered the challenge of delivering research impact for National Security; the contribution that mathematics can make (including the use of Inverse Problem Theory); and collaborative, international work on understanding the Mafia and (separately) countering violent extremism through communications strategies.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Meeting/Briefing the Senior Policy Adviser at The Royal Society, responsible for the Society's machine learning and artificial intelligence policy portfolio. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact My visitor was interested in developing a richer understanding about the challenges posed by AI and new digital technologies, by broadening the range of academic disciplines to which I have access in seeking to understand these questions. At the end of a wide-ranging discussion, I sent her the following PaCCS Policy Briefings: http://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/policy-briefings/ethical-regulatory-considerations/; http://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/policy-briefings/ethics-dangerous-science/; and http://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/policy-briefings/innovation-defence-security/. I also sent her the output from the Ditchley Park Conference that I had attended on "The Future of Policing in the Digital Age".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Membership of and participation in Cranfield University Vice-Chancellor's Security Board (2021-2) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Providing advice to Cranfield University about activities (including engagement with HMG policy-makers and practitioners) to increase impact from research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022
 
Description NSTIx/RISC "Improving the Innovation Ecosystem for UK National Security" Digital Roundtable Discussion (June 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact HMG has created the National Security Technology Innovation Exchange in an attempt to improve the intake and uptake of innovative solutions to National Security requirements. I have been vocal in calling for transformation of procurement practices in this area (https://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/policy-briefings/innovation-defence-security/) and in overcoming innovation challenges in cybersecurity (https://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/policy-briefings/cyber-security/) and was invited to participate in this round table.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Online Launch of Open Source publication: "Global Uncertainties: Collected Conversations from the Partnership for Conflict, Criume and Security Research" (September 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact We produced / launched this book as PaCCS came to an end after 15 years, to celebrate and highlight the work of the members of our research community throughout our history. This e-book that illustrates the breadth and depth of PaCCS work through a collection of interviews and reflections on the contribution made by high-quality, interdisciplinary, problem-based research. Over 1,200 projects - located in universities across the UK and drawing on many different academic disciplines - have been linked to PaCCS (formerly called the Global Uncertainties Programme). Many of these have generated unique and impactful knowledge and insight, as well as nurturing academic sources of expertise that will contribute to societal well-bring for decades to come. The projects covered by this book explore six key themes through impact-driven research and case studies: Hazards, Disasters and Risk Management; Conflict, Security and Peacemaking; Peacebuilding & Post-Conflict Reconstruction; Identity, Radicalisation & Political Violence; Criminal Networks & Transnational Organised Crime; Cyber-Security & Emerging Technology. Together, these diverse texts have the potential to advance our understanding of vulnerabilities within the interconnected, intricate systems which link our environments, infrastructure, institutions, and social world. This book also features insights from the policymakers and practitioners who work at the coalface of the challenges explored in this book - with their insights collectively highlighting the importance of resilience in systems, and the diverse, complex challenges faced by those working to translate research into practice.

This online event was well-attended, with talks given by: Prof Pasquale Malacaria (Queen Mary University London), Tim Edmunds (Bristol), Prof Chris Drakeley (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine), Dr Emma Briant (American School), Prof Niamh Nic Daeid (Dundee), Prof Richard Phillips (Sheffield), Prof Siraj Shaikh (Swansea), Dr Neil Ferguson (International Security & Development Center, Berlin), Dr Yongyu Zeng (Lancaster), Prof Omer Rana (Cardiff), Mike Granatt (firmer head of Civil Contingencies Secretaruat, Cabinet Office), Prof Steve Schneider (Surrey), Dr Andrew Stafford (Strategic Lead for Society, Governance and Security, ESRC, UKRI).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/news/book-launch-global-uncertainties-collected-conversations/
 
Description Opening session of NSTIx Panel (September 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The National Security Technology and Innovation Exchange (NSTIx) is a government-led science, technology and innovation partnership that enables coherent and agile delivery of innovative national security outcomes through a coordinated and systematic approach to research and capability development. As a member of the Advisory Panel, my role is to provide challenge and guidance to NSTIx on its desired outcomes as articulated through its Strategic Intent document and how best to achieve them, including timely feedback to NSTIx proposals; and to propose activities, methodologies or contacts to address these for NSTIx to consider taking forward with its services. This opening session focused on Terms of Reference etc
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/national-security-technology-and-innovation-exchange
 
Description PaCCS Conference on "Maximising Impact from Serious Organised Crime Research" (September/October 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact In the autumn of 2021, the Partnership for Conflict, Crime & Security (PaCCS) Research convened more than 130 participants for a virtual conference on Serious Organised Crime. The conference, which focused on the theme of "Maximising Impact from Serious Organised Crime Research", sought to create a space in which academics, policymakers, and practitioners could come together to explore what new insights from research can offer to help us understand and undermine serious organised crime. It was designed and delivered in close collaboration with the Home Office and National Police Chiefs Council (with keynote speeches delivered by the Home Office Chief Scientific Advisor and by the Head of the National Police Chiefs Council). Through participation in roundtables, networking sessions, keynote addresses, and a Snapshot Expo featuring insights from early career researchers and practitioners, participants explored the following seven workstreams:
• Modern Slavery & Human Trafficking
• Economic & Financial Crime
• Blue & Green Crimes (Maritime & Environmental)
• Gangs & Syndicates (Arms, Drugs & Extortion)
• Victims & Harms (including Child Sexual Exploitation)
• Cyber-Crime & Online Criminal Markets
• Criminal Conflict & Political Violence.

The insights from this event were captured in a PaCCS Policy Briefing which has been shared with all participants and which is forming the basis for tailored presentations to stakeholders (starting with the National Crime Agency's National Assessment Centre).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/2021-virtual-conference-on-serious-organised-crime-resources-and-re...
 
Description PaCCS Conference on Transnational Organised Crime (Cambridge September 2018) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This residential conference (17/18 September) was designed to extract synergies from the diverse projects in the programme of research ithat I was "integrating": http://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/tnoc-theme-innovation-awards/. We had c 60 delegates from around the world, with a ratio of two non-academic stakeholders (policy-makers and practitioners) to every one researcher. The aim of turning insights from research into recommendations for follow-up action. There were three broad themes to the conference, around Shaping, Enabling and Disrupting Transnational Organised Crime. A strong emphasis will be on collaborative discussion: delegates will not be subjected to hours of lecturing without the opportunity to engage! I would be delighted if you can join us; don't hesitate to get in touch if you would like further information. Keynote addresses included a briefing from the Home Office on the (then imminent) HMG Strategy on Serious and Organised Crime.

We received the following feedback:

• Content: 3% Poor. 17% Fair. 35% Good. 45% Excellent
• Objectives: 1% Poor. 14% Fair. 24% Good. 61% Excellent
• Venue: 0% Poor. 0% Fair. 33% Good. 67% Excellent
• Organisation: 0% Poor. 0% Fair. 5% Good. 95% Excellent

Content: The two Round Table Events achieved the highest plaudits in terms of Conference Content based on "Excellent" scores received (63%); but the Open Forum came a close second, scoring 41% "Good" and 53% "Excellent" (giving a combined score of 94% for these two grades compared to 89% for the Round Tables).

Objectives: Our Networking Objective gained a 100% score for "Good" (32%) or "Excellent" (68%), while our Engagement got a slightly higher "Excellent" score of 69% (but only 26% rating this "Good").

A key output was the PaCCS Policy Briefing "Understanding Transnational Organised Crime in the 21st Century" (see link below)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
URL http://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/paccs-policy-briefing-understanding-transnational-organised-crime-in...
 
Description PaCCS Workshop: Broadening and Deepening Our Understanding of Transnational Organised Crime (April 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact This reidential workshop brought together Principal Investigators, Co-Investigators and non-academic stakeholders to advance the goals of synergy and impact associated with the UKRI-funded programme for which I am "Research Integrator".

The Workshop focused: firstly on inviting each of the five projects in our programme to describe their plans to the others (to help identify opportunities for synergy); secondly, on discussing two mechanisms for impact - the "Brains Trust" or "TNOC Fellowship Scheme" (where non-academic stakeholders develop a set of questions that are then answered through meetings with up to 50 academics) and the "TNOC Placement" (where we fund a doctoral or post-doc researcher to spend three months located inside a stakeholder organisation to help address an issue of concern); and thirdly to identify options for advancing Recommendations from the 2018 PaCCS Policy Briefing "Understanding Transnational Organised Crime in the 21st Century".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Participation as Panellist on CyberASAP (Year 6) (July 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Cyber Academic Start-up Accelerator Programme is run by the Knowledge Transfer Network for DCMS. This event provides critical support to c 13 academic teams developing cybersecurity solutions; my panel was assessing six of these.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/programme/cyberasap/
 
Description Participation in Bristol Uni Ideas Lab on UK Maritime Security 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This is linked to one of the five projects (Prof Tim Edmunds is the Principal investigator) that I am supporting under the PaCCS theme of "broadening and deepening our understanding of transnational organised crime". The IdeasLab brings together key maritime security policy makers, practitioners, academics and others to reflect on the future of UK maritime security. The event is organised around three thematic panels: 1) on Threats, Risks and Opportunities; 2) on Boundaries, Borders and Maritime Regions; and 3) on Governance and Coordination. Each panel will be introduced by short position papers by policy and academic contributors, followed by 45-60 minutes of guided discussion amongst our expert participants.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.safeseas.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/SafeSeas-report_v52.pdf
 
Description Participation in MoD Global Strategic Trends 6 workshop: "Future of corruption & organised crime" (29 June '17) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Academics, policy-makers and military came together to contribute to a discussion facilitated by the "Futures, Strategic Trends Programme" of the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre at Shrivenham, The focus was on crime.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Participation in SHOC (Strategic Hub for Organised Crime Research) Workshop on BREXIT and the Future of UK-EU Police Cooperation 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The workshop explored the potential implications of BREXIT on EU-UK police cooperation, and discussed potential future scenarios with representatives from government, law enforcement and academia.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Participation in Security and Resilience Growth Partnership Workshop on Procurement Reforms Green Paper (March 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This workshop was convened by RISC (the Security and Resilience Industry Suppliers Community) - I sit on the RISC Council representing academia in general and PaCCS in particular. It was intended as a working-level meeting to facilitate cross-government engagement with suppliers. The purpose of the session was to have a dialogue about respective priorities and hopes for the green paper (https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/green-paper-transforming-public-procurement), as well as airing any important issues that the reforms must tackle. I contributed with insights from the PaCCS Policy Briefing "Transforming Research into Technology" (https://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/policy-briefings/innovation-defence-security/) and also raised the need for transparency in public procurement supply chains informed by our placement with TiscReport (https://online.pubhtml5.com/cbni/yjgz/).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Participation in a virtual panel convened by Ditchley Park to explore the idea of a Science and Technology Group (May 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact The main purpose of the discussion was to address the concept of a Ditchley science and technology group, exploring the objectives and the means, the why and the how, allowing Ditchley Park to draw on the very considerable influence and expertise of people involved in technology who have engaged with Ditchley over the last five years.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Participation in follow-up workshop for Dstl into working with academia, organised by the Centre for science and Policy at Cambridge University (July 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Defence Science and Technology Futures programme (DSTF) would like to understand how they can better engage with academia at all levels. In particular, they want to improve their understanding of how to actively place research (short-term, long-term or PhD research) and how to pull existing research into their programme. Their broad aim is to learn from other government departments and sectors how they engage with academia and what successful commissioning of research looks like. This workshop was aimed at determining how methods of working with academia can be injected into DSTF's practices. The outcome was a list of recommendations which DSTF will take away and implement.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Participation in workshop for Dstl into working with academia, organised by the Centre for science and Policy at Cambridge University (March 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Dstl Futures Programme (DSTF) - and broader Dstl and Ministry of Defence - wanted to understand how they can better engage with academia at all levels. In particular, they want to improve their understanding of how to actively place research (short-term, long-term or PhD research) and how to pull existing research into their programme. Their broad aim is to learn from other government departments and sectors how they engage with academia and what successful commissioning of research looks like.

In this first workshop, representatives from academia and industry were brought together with senior Dstl colleagues to develop solutions to five discussion tasks. The tasks were generated via close consultation with Dstl colleagues. Each task focused on a real-world academic engagement problem faced in the course of their work. Participants were split into five teams. Each team was tasked with developing an action plan to solve their designated problem. Four general consideration criteria were put forward for judging the advantages and disadvantages of the different forms the action plan might take.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Participation in workshop on "Transforming Public Procurement" Green Paper organised by HMG's Security and Resilience Growth Partnership (SRGP) (March 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This was organised for SRGP by the Security and Resilience Industry Suppliers Community, in partnership with the Home Office's Joint Security and Resilience Centre (JSaRC) and the National Security Technology and Innovation Exchange (NSTIx). This wasintended as a working-level meeting to facilitate cross-government engagement with industry and academia. The purpose of the session was to have a dialogue about respective priorities and hopes for the green paper, as well as airing any important issues that the reforms must tackle.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Participation in workshop organised by REPHRAIN (National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online) (January 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I was invited to participate in this preliminary workshop to support REPHRAIN's study to address privacy and online Harms. Various reports suggest an increase in online privacy concerns, violations, and harms. While various experts are trying to solve these issues, it is currently difficult to know what problems exist, the causals, mitigations that exist, or even what individuals can use online to reduce these harms. There is currently no framework map or tool which these stakeholders can use to identify harms, understand factors that cause these harms, identify measures to mitigate against these harms, or even existing Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) that can reduce them. This study aims to engage with various stakeholders to develop a baseline current state-of-the-art map that will show what online harms are prevalent and what opportunities exist to design and reduce online harm.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Piloting a TNOC Brains Trust (November 2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Through the course of 2017, working with researchers from the TNOC Innovation Call, I developed a plan to pilot a Brains Trust where non-academic stakeholders (the questors) could formulate a set of questions and then discuss these with available Investigators from our programme. This led to an event that took place on 20 November, with four questers (Shahda Khan, who works for Middlesbrough Council as Strategic lead for Cohesion & Migration; Superintendent John Paterson, Head of Harm Prevention in Police Scotland; Jo Taylor, Policing Standards Manager for Investigation & Forensics at the College of Policing; and David Tucker, Faculty Lead for Crime & Criminal Justice at the College of Policing) engaging in a series of hour-long (teleconference) conversations with the following researchers: Professor Joe Drugan & Dr Alexandria Innes (University of East Anglia); Drs Kristofer Allerfeldt & Louise Waite (Universities of Exeter & Leeds);Professor Georgios Antonopoulos (University of Teesside);; Dr Walter Wehrmeyer (University of Surrey); Dr Giacomo Persi Paoli (RAND Europe); and Professor David Wall (University of Leeds). The broad theme of the Brains Trust session was "TNOC Tools and Techniques", with topics on finding and protecting vulnerable victims; team-working and information-sharing; and defining and countering TNOC. The aim of the pilot was to assess the value of this exercise in helping researchers to deliver impact. Feedback, therefore, has concentrated on value of this engagement for the non-academic stakeholders who dedicated much of the day to the event (whereas each researcher was only preoccupied for one hour). The key messages from this feedback are as follows: the concept - bringing academic researchers together with non-academic stakeholders to discuss questions formulated by the latter - is a good one, welcomed by all; all questors gained value from these specific exchanges, and want more; individual contributions from researchers achieved average scores of between 4.3 and 3.3 (where a 5 = "Very Useful" and 1 = "Not Useful At All"); and against a similar metric, average scores of 3.7 were achieved against the questions "was this a good use of your time?" and "would you recommend we continue with the Brains Trust?"; the teleconference format adopted in the pilot was not welcomed: the unanimous view is that face-to-face engagement is much preferred, would enhance the quality of knowledge exchange and increase impact; there were some critical comments about researchers failing to focus on the questions, and some interest in the process being supported with a formal record of insights and outcomes.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Presentation to and engagement with Colombian National Police advising on police transformation (June '21) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I was invited to join a video conference to share my "ideas, experience as academic and your point of view its important in order to make the adjustment that the citizens demands from police forces after pandemic and new social trends." It was explained that: "We are in the process to reform our national police of Colombia, and we are facing challenges in how to do to be more closer to the communities, how they can support us and trust in the police, how to face new trends in serious organized crime, human rights, among others. The participants in the video conference will be General Ernesto Garcia, Head of Planning Office of the National Police, others high rank officers and some Colombian academics."

I focused my talk on lessons to be learnt from the Patten Report on transformation of the Royal Ulster Constabulary to the Police Service of Northern Ireland. This proved of great interest to officers who saw the read-across (not least because both societies had been involved in emergence from periods of civil strife and terrorism).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Presentation to the White Rose Doctoral Training Centre on the state and direction of research funding (June 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I provided an strategic overview of the future of funding for security-related research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Promoting value of knowledge exchange to Home Office / Counter-Terrorism Policing (April 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact I was invited to address a day-conference of Counter-Terrorist Police (CTP) and policy-makers, together with a cross-section of academics, brought together by the Home Office to discuss CTP's University Innovation Concept (UIC). I drew on insights and experience from my grant-funded work as Global Uncertainties Champion and TNOC Research Integrator to promote the value of knowledge-broking roundtables, where research specialists are brought together with non-academic stakeholders to explore questions/challenges identified by the latter. This resulted in CTP funding a series of such roundtables in 2022-23 under UIC Phase 2.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Public Launch of PaCCS Placement Report "Preparing for Impact" (July 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was he launch of the output from our Placement with the Office of the Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, reaching out to participants from academia, service providers and NGOs, law enforcement, government and parliament. This included dissemination of the report https://www.antislaverycommissioner.co.uk/media/1433/iasc-review-preparing-for-impact-july-2020.pdf. Following comments from me as Research Integrator, there was input from a panel including Juliana Semione (our Placement, and author of the report).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.antislaverycommissioner.co.uk/media/1441/meeting-note-iasc-review-preparing-for-impact-2...
 
Description RISC Council Membership (2013-22) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact I represent academia on the Council of RISC (the Security and Resilience Industry Suppliers Community). Formal meetings discuss engagement with HMG to support and promote knowledge exchange and delivery of solutions to support national security and resilience.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021,2022
 
Description Reflections on Research and the Ukraine Conflict (May 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I was interviewed by PaCCS's Communications Officer, reflecting on opportunities for UK academics to deepen our understanding of the ongoing war in Ukraine, on questions of resilience and peace-making, and how academics can help policy-makers and practitioners engage with the challenges thrown up by this war.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/blog/a-role-for-research-identifying-insights-into-the-war-in-ukrai...
 
Description Shaping the Future of Security Research: Policy Lunch I (Jan 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This was the first of three three "Policy Lunches" convened in Q1 2020, where key influencers from the public, private and third sectors (including Chief Scientific Advisers from major Government Departments) took part in an open discussion about the future of research into security-related issues. Participants were invited to respond to the following high-level question(s): "Since 2008, the UK Research Councils have supported work to identify causes of insecurity; to explore how security risks and threats can be predicted, prevented and managed; and to improve understanding of current and future security challenges. Do these remain issues of strategic and national importance, where research has a contribution to make? If so, what are the most pressing challenges that UKRI should focus on?" The key findings from this exercise relate to future challenges for security research; these have been summarized in a paper submitted to UKRI. But participants also highlighted areas for structural and cultural improvements in order to maximise the benefits of security research; this has been shared with UKRI as well.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Shaping the Future of Security Research: Policy Lunch II (Feb 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact This was the second of three three "Policy Lunches" convened in Q1 2020, where key influencers from the public, private and third sectors (including Chief Scientific Advisers from major Government Departments) took part in an open discussion about the future of research into security-related issues. Participants were invited to respond to the following high-level question(s): "Since 2008, the UK Research Councils have supported work to identify causes of insecurity; to explore how security risks and threats can be predicted, prevented and managed; and to improve understanding of current and future security challenges. Do these remain issues of strategic and national importance, where research has a contribution to make? If so, what are the most pressing challenges that UKRI should focus on?" The key findings from this exercise relate to future challenges for security research; these have been summarized in a paper submitted to UKRI. But participants also highlighted areas for structural and cultural improvements in order to maximise the benefits of security research; this has been shared with UKRI as well.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Shaping the Future of Security Research: Policy Lunch III (March 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Third sector organisations
Results and Impact This was the third of three three "Policy Lunches" convened in Q1 2020, where key influencers from the public, private and third sectors (including Chief Scientific Advisers from major Government Departments) took part in an open discussion about the future of research into security-related issues. Participants were invited to respond to the following high-level question(s): "Since 2008, the UK Research Councils have supported work to identify causes of insecurity; to explore how security risks and threats can be predicted, prevented and managed; and to improve understanding of current and future security challenges. Do these remain issues of strategic and national importance, where research has a contribution to make? If so, what are the most pressing challenges that UKRI should focus on?" The key findings from this exercise relate to future challenges for security research; these have been summarized in a paper submitted to UKRI. But participants also highlighted areas for structural and cultural improvements in order to maximise the benefits of security research; this has been shared with UKRI as well.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Speaking on CogX Panel (June 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact I was invited to sit on a panel chaired by HMG's National Security Chief Scientific Adviser discussing "a new era for cybersecurity", specifically addressing the challenge: "Government has the industry it deserves, not the industry it wants! How can we change the game?"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcbuaG1yApM
 
Description Talk on "Delivering Impact from Academic Scholarship" to Scholar from Jiangsu Province attending "The Rivers Project Leadership and Global Knowledge Programme" at Cambridge 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I was invited to draw on understanding (as an Impact Champion for PaCCS) of the challenges and solutions for scholars in engaging with Government (in particular) in a three-hour session with professors from universities in Jiangsu Province, China who are interested in advancing the value of "think-tanks" in China. This included a talk and then I facilitated discussion. Afterwards, I received the following letter of appreciation:

"This is Hong Wang , representative at the Jiangsu Provincial International Exchange Center London branch. I am very grateful for your fantastic lecture last Wednesday in Cambridge. The students really appreciate it. They all believe your lectures gave them the most vivid memory during their stay in the UK. Thank you for coming, I really look forward to hearing your lectures again in the foreseeable future. Warmest wishes, Hong Wang, UK Representative, Jiangsu Provincial International Exchange Center, 12 John Princes Street London W1G 0JR"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018
 
Description Talk to Coventry University 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Undergraduate students
Results and Impact I was invited by Prof Richard Aldrich to speak to students involved in intelligence studies and engineering to talk about delivering science impact in the security sector. The students were invited to select from a menu of themes (security threats, delivering impact, knowledge exchange, intellectual impact, instrumental impact) and I then started a discussion by presenting on these themes. This included talking about delivering insight from Transnational Organised Crime Research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Talk to PaCCs Policy Session on Organised Crime in Conflict Zones (14 July 2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact I was asked to explore the issue of Organised Crime's association with instability, uncertainty and breakdown.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Talking to, and participating in, FINAC workshop at Teesside University (September 2017) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact I was invited by Professor Georgios Antonopoulos of Teesside University to speak to the workshop that was concluding his research into the Financial Aspects of Trade in Counterfeit Goods (FINAC), attended by a number of professionals involved in countering counterfeit. My theme was "Building a partnership between researchers and non-academic stakeholders".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2017
 
Description Two meetings with PA re Shaping the Future of R&D (November 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact This was an initiative by PA Consulting to develop guidance to improve the culture of innovation in the UK. I was approached for an initial interview followed by an invitation to participate in a round table a few weeks later (both in November). In discussion, I drew on (and referred them to) PaCCS Policy Briefings: https://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/policy-briefings/innovation-defence-security/; and https://www.paccsresearch.org.uk/policy-briefings/cyber-security/. This resulted in a paper shown in URL below.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www2.paconsulting.com/shaping-the-future-of-rd.html
 
Description US National Science Foundation Conference on "Engineering Approach for Disrupting Operations of Illicit Supply Networks" (March 2019) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The conference - which took place in the Arlington Campus of George Mason University - was sponsored by the National Science Foundation to provide opportunities to discuss future directions of the research in the area of illicit supply networks and promote further collaborations among the participants. I was invited to act as the facilitator on one of the breakout/roundtable sessions, briefly describing the TNOC theme of the PaCCS programme (especially in the area of cybersecurity) and then facilitate discussions on this topic.

One outcome from my participation was to initiate a dialogue between Georgia-Ann Klutke of NSC and EPSRC, looking for opportunities for collaborative research.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Virtual webinar (PaCCS/TiscReport) for Local Government on improving transparency in supply chain. (July 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact In July 2021, the PaCCS team supported TiscReport in putting on a Virtual Workshop for UK Local Government Leaders on "Progress and Challenges in Tackling Modern Slavery in Local Government Supply Chains". We secured the services of UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Dame Sara Thornton who opened this event which aimed to discuss and progress findings in the t policy briefing. The Head of TiscReport wrote, in introducing the workshop: "The report identified key challenges and associated recommendations in order to more effectively tackle modern slavery in Local Government Supply Chains which Local Government Leaders are now invited to input into. With the pandemic significantly increasing worker vulnerability within UK supply chains, actions taken by public sector buyers will be critical to increasing the effectiveness of the UK's response."

We are aware of at least one Council (Stockport) which changed its Modern Slavery Statement, and which - in March 2022 - was contacting us to discuss next steps.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021,2022
URL https://tiscreport.org/news/workshop-uk-local-government-leaders-progress-and-challenges-tackling-mo...
 
Description Workshop run by Dr Kristofer Allerfeldt on "Negating Humanity: Modern Slavery in its Historical Context and its Implications for Policy" 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Study participants or study members
Results and Impact A two-day workshop reviewing findings from this project - part of the TNOC programme that I have been integrating. This led to the Policy Briefing and other initiatives (including the Ditchley Park Park's Dinner on "Technology and Slavery".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2018