Master of Science - Policing and Data Analytics examines key challenges in contemporary policing and provides students with strong quantitative analysis skills to analyse policing. Students will have the opportunity to gain an advanced understanding of how policing works and try to adapt to our contemporary world. Students will address cutting-edge critical, conceptual and theoretical analyses of policing, human rights, privacy and surveillance studies, domestic violence, hate crime, and gender-based violence.

Students will gain an applied understanding of different research methods and concepts including randomised control trials, the use of ‘R’ and conceptualisations of causality, allowing them to design and critically analyse approaches to gathering evidence. Students will have the opportunity to hear from police themselves about how they respond to these challenges. Students will be taught by our academic experts who have worked closely with police as well as campaigning for police reform to address brutality, abuse and misconduct.