You are here
- Home
- Exploring technologies to improve how citizens and the police work together to keep us safe
Exploring technologies to improve how citizens and the police work together to keep us safe
Researchers at The Open University (OU) have received a £1 million Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) grant to improve the way members of the public and authorities such as the police work together. This will support them to better investigate and reduce potential or actual threats to citizen privacy, safety, and security.
The Citizen Forensics project, led by Professor Arosha Bandara, will explore different technologies for people to share data with the police to improve public safety, as well as protecting their privacy and anonymity.
Read the full article on The Open University News website.
Quarterly Review of Research
Read our Quarterly Review of Research to learn about our latest quality academic output.
Contact our news team
For all out of hours enquiries, please telephone +44 (0)7901 515891
News & articles
Suffolk Mind wins OSC funding for mental health research
Suffolk Mind, an independent mental health charity, has been awarded an Open Societal Challenges (OSC) funding grant to undertake a new research project which aims to address low response rates and the under-representation of mental health service users in research and evaluation activities.
- Researchers find that disadvantaged young people benefit from supported nature activities 6th February 2025
- CONNECT 2030: ‘top three’ open schooling recognised by UNESCO 6th February 2025
- Ruth Strauss Foundation secures OSC grant for lung cancer support research 30th January 2025
