Writing for Cash (aka ‘grant writing’)Being currently stuck into academic grant reviewing season, and having just submitted two research grants for provincial funding myself...
Trust: What Does The Research Say? I was recently in the unenviable situation of having to advise someone that, no, I wouldn’t simply accept an other's judgment when it...
The First 48: Tracking Down a Potentially Made-up NumberA few years ago, I was co-presenting on evidence based policing at the CAPE (Canadian Association of Police Educators) conference, when...
MissPers: What's new in (some) Canadian research? A while back I undertook a monster review of the missing persons research in Canada as part of an exercise for the Independent Review...
Emotional Labour, An Under-researched Aspect of Police WorkThis past week I've been doing a deep-dive into missing persons data and I cannot lie: it's depressing as hell. Every single case -...
Old Wine in New Bottles (or 'ho hum Public Health')I hate to break it to you, but ... the promotion of the new approach to violence which sees crime as the result series of social risk...