ESRC Impact Prize winner 2015: Outstanding impact in Society
Dr Hester Parr has been awarded the prestigious ESRC 'Celebrating Impact: Outstanding Impact in Society' Award 2015 on behalf of the Geographies of Missing People project. The project has improved the way UK police officers relate to missing persons and transformed policing guidance on the handling of missing persons and their families.
Impact
- Police Scotland has included changes to 'good practice' handling of missing persons based on research recommendations.
- Police operational guidance for Scotland now incorporates research recommendations in its best practice guidelines for handling the families of missing persons. Draft guidance for England and Wales also includes this.
- The research materials and project reports are reaching over 30,000 police officers in England and Wales via existing training resources, based on completion figures for 2012-15, the equivalent to approximately one in four officers over a three year period.
- Dr Parr and colleague Dr Penny Woolnough sit on the Scottish Government-led Working Group on Missing Persons Strategy for Scotland 2014-2015 - a new policy initiative designed to protect vulnerable missing people.
- Dr Parr has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the newly established Aftercare Service for the Missing People Charity in Wales.
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Find out more about the award on the ESRC website.
January 2015
* We are delighted to have been shortlisted for the 2015 ESRC Celebrating Impact Awards. The 2015 Impact Prize is an exciting opportunity to celebrate the outstanding economic and social impacts achieved by ESRC-funded researchers over the last 50 years. Dr Hester Parr will travel to London to meet with the award panel in early February.
June 2014
* The Geographies of Missing People project has been nominated by the University of Glasgow for entry to the Times Higher Education 'Research project of the year' awards
* The team are involved in writing outputs from the project this month.
August 2014
* The ESRC award for the project is now at an end. Dr Olivia Stevenson has moved on to a knowledge exchange post at UCL and we wish her all the best and thank her for her work on the project.
* The team are continuing to draft article for journals this month.
May 2014
* During April and May Olivia along with Penny are attending and presenting research results at several College of Policing PNSC PoISA CPD events - ‘Missing in the 21st Century’ - including Ryton, Tulliallan & Bramshill.
* The geographies of missing people team have been invited to contribute to the development of a National Missing Persons Strategy for Scotland. In May Hester, Penny and Olivia will attend the second strategy meeting of the Scottish Government working group and Hester will lead a presentation of the key findings from our research and how they impact on a Scottish strategy.
* The geographies of missing people research has been recognised for its value to policing and via Police Scotland’s National Missing Persons Coordinator – Superintendent Andy McKay - findings and recommendations from the research have been embedded in the newly design standard operation procedure (SOP) for Police Scotland officers. The SOP and further training will be rolled out over the coming year.
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