Visiting Fellows
Otto Adang
Visiting Professor at the Canterbury Center of Policing Research
Otto is professor by Special appointment of Security and Collective Behaviour at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, as well as Chair, Public Order Management and Academic Dean MSc Policing at Police Academy of the Netherlands
Otto has over 30 years experience in studying police- citizen interactions and public order policing. He is a behavioural scientist interested in aggression, reconciliation and collective behaviour, specifically in the way in which individuals regulate conflicts and social tension. He has published in the following fields: police studies, sociology, social psychology, investigative psychology, social simulation, criminal justice, criminology, human rights, sports studies, ethology, primatology.
Recent publications
Adang, O.M.J. (2016) Nonadversial peer reviews of policing operations: fostering organizational learning. European Journal of Policing Studies 4 (2) 195-216
Adang, O.M.J. (2016) A Method For Direct Systematic Observation Of Collective Violence And Public Order Policing. Sociological Methods and Research https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124116661578
Adang, O.M.J. & T. van Ham (2015) Contextual and Individual Factors Determining Escalation of Collective Violence: Case Study of the Project X Riot in Haren, the Netherlands. British Journal of Criminology. DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azv024
Dr Tom Cockcroft
Head of Criminology, Leeds Beckett University and Senior Research Fellow, Canterbury Christ Church University
Tom Cockcroft is Professor of Legal and Social Justice at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is an authority on police culture and is the author of numerous papers and chapters on this subject. He is the author of the books ‘Police Culture: Themes and Concepts’ (Routledge, 2012) and ‘Police Culture: Research and Practice’ (Policy Press, 2020) and sits on the editorial board of ‘Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice’ (Oxford Journals). He has spent most of his career working on a range of research and knowledge transfer projects focusing on policing, police culture, police knowledge and police professionalisation. He is the Series Co-Editor of ‘Routledge Advances in Police Practice and Knowledge’.
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Prof. Jonathan Crego M.B.E. BSc. (Hons.) Ph.D. D.Sc.
Director of the Hydra Foundation
Creator of the Minerva and Hydra Strategic Management Simulation Systems. Hydra is currently operating in 85 locations worldwide for Law Enforcement, Fire Service, UK, USA and Australian Security Services, Social Care, Military and Academia. Canterbury Christ Church has an outstanding Hydra capability and is delivering programmes to both under and post graduate students in Counter Terrorism, Criminology, CyberCrime, Crime Scene management and Social Care. These outstanding projects are led by Dr Elaine Brown, Senior Lecturer, Law & Criminal Justice Studies and Cheryl Yardley, Programme Director - MA in Social Work and has been supported by Dr Dominic Wood, Head of School, School of Law, Criminal Justice and Computing.
Awarded M.B.E. by HM Queen Elizabeth II, for Service to Policing, 2009.
10Kv Debriefing & Hydra
Creator of the debriefing system and methodologies called 10,000 Volt Debriefing, used to analyse critical incidents with a current data-set of over 350 debriefing sessions, including International Terrorism, catastrophic incidents such as Tsunami and Pandemic. Policing operations including murder investigations, multiagency management of child abuse, serious and organised crime and other multiagency critical incidents. Debriefing sessions carried out include; the Stanley Miller Beating - LAPD Los Angeles, security issues in Australia, Greece, Vancouver and London Olympics. Recently suites are operational in the USA Homeland Security training centre. There are Hydra suites in every region of UK Fire and Police Services. Current Hydra projects include USA Homeland Security, UK Immigration Enforcement, UK National Crime Agency and academic research.
Hydra methodologies and software are provided at no charge to the UK Police and Fire Services through the Hydra Foundation (wwwHydraFoundation.org)
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Rob Heaton
Rob Heaton is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Canterbury Christ Church University. During a 30 year career in Kent Police, he attended the first MSc (Criminal Justice) course at the University of Portsmouth. During this time, he became interested in the interaction between policing theory and practice, in particular the connection between methods of policing and crime rates. Rob’s (2007) PhD subject was based around this subject, about which he has produced a number of papers and shorter articles. He has also written further about subjects of interest such as workload and risk in operational policing. Rob currently teaches on Masters degree courses at CCCU and is involved in a number of research projects.
Dr Harry Peeters
Senior Research Fellow, Canterbury Christ Church University
Harry is retired from the Police Academy of the Netherlands as a Senior Strategic Consultant for the Executive Board, which position enabled him to become known as the architect of an innovative, accredited and coherent system of Dutch police training from basic educational levels up to master’s and to get involved in constructing curricula for CEPOL – Policing In Europe and the European Joint Master Programme – as well as for CCCU in collaboration with the Dutch Police Academy – the European Diploma in Policing (EDP) and the MSc in Policing – of which he was the former Programme Director on the Dutch side.
Harry currently teaches the European Policing Module of CCCU’s MA in Policing & Criminal Justice and acts as a liaison between CCCU, Dutch Universities of Applied Sciences and the Police Academy of the Netherlands with regard to exchanging expertise on digital forensics. His publications in English refer to rapid reviews for the MET on efficiency, culture and branding of the Dutch Police and to articles on ways to blend academic learning within professional police training and on constructing comparative competency profiles. He contributed to Leading Policing in Europe (Caless and Tong) in terms of conducting and translating interviews with Dutch, Belgian and German police leaders.
Formerly he was a Director of a Governance & Law Faculty at Saxion University of Applied Sciences in Enschede. He graduated in Political Science, specialised in International Relations and Polemology. He was a Councillor for a Pacifist-Socialist Party in the city of Nijmegen.
Dr Martin Wright
Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Canterbury Centre for Policing Research (CCPR)
Martin is a retired West Midland Police inspector and the only officer ever to be granted a Doctoral Studentship by the Association of British Insurers. He was Head of Department at the University of Wolverhampton and led the development of a number of undergraduate and post-graduate awards for the uniformed services. He is a Committee Member of the Institute of Administrative Management and the Managing Editor of the journal, ‘Policing: a journal of Policy & Practice’ published by Oxford University Press.
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