William Graham
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I am the Faculty Head of Teaching Quality and Learning Enhancement within the International Recruitment and partnerships Office, where I am responsible for all quality issues for all out international and UK partners. 

I amd also a Senior Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Sociological and Psychological Sciences. I specialise in policing and criminal justice.

I’m a former Senior Police Officer, having retired from Strathclyde Police in 2010 after 30 years’ service. I held various positions including Deputy Manager of a multi-agency initiative designed to reduce gang violence across Glasgow. 

My research interests focus on policy transfer in international criminal justice - specifically violence prevention initiatives.  My PhD research was an in-depth case study of the policy transfer of the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV) to Glasgow.

I’m interested in all aspects of policing research and have recently carried out work on the policing of parades and demonstrations, and citizen engagement in policing. 

I was a Co-Investigator with a multi-university team examining the impact of organised crime on Scottish Communities that reported to the Government in May 2018. I am also an academic advisor to the National Violence Prevention Board.

In July 2018 Northamptonshire Polcie employed me a Consultant to advise them on the establishment of a violence reduction programme for gangs, building on my previous experience in the police in Glasgow and my PhD research.

I carried out an evaluation of the effectiveness of Braveheart Industries (Street and Arrow Cafe) in Glasgow on behalf of the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit, a social enterprise venture that trains ex-offenders in the workplace, reporting in April 2020.

I have also completed a major project on behalf of Police Scotland and The Scottish Police Authority, evaluating the Mobile Working Project for the police, which evaluated the roll out of mobile devices to officers replacing the paper notebooks. The report was submitted in December 2020.

My current research project is as a co-investigator of an evaluation project of 5 sites in the UK, delivering focussed deterrence strategy approaches to reduce violence in gangs, the largest such evaluation ever undertaken in the world to date.

I’m also an Associate Member of the Scottish Centre for Criminal Justice Research, and a member of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research (SIPR), sitting on its Education and Leadership Network.

Teaching

William teaches on a variety of modules in the Criminology Degree

CRM211 - Introduction to Policing

CRM310 - Policing in Practice

CRM413 - Policing Communities

Research interests

William's area of PhD research is in international criminal justice policy transfer, in particular the transfer of a gang project from Cincinnati (USA) to Glasgow.

He is particulary interested in all aspects of police research, given his 30 years experience in Strathclyde Police, retiring in 2010.   

William is curently a Co-Investigator for the Community Impact of Organised Crime on Scottish Communities, funded by the Scottish Government, with colleagues from Stirling and Glasgow Universities.

Funding

William is part of a group who have been successful in bidding for a Scottish Government contract worth £152,000 to carry out an evaluation of the impact the Organsided Crime Gangs have on communities in Scotland. This evaluation will commence in August 2016 and will run for 18 months.

William is an integral member of a team from across the UK who are carrying out a 5 year evaluation of 5 sites in the UK who are delivering focused deterrence strategy approach to reduce violence. This is funded by the Youth Endowment Fund and the evaluation part is worth £1.5 million. 

Esteem

William is a member of the National Violence Prevention Board as an academic advisor.

Knowledge Exchange

William has established links with various universities in America, most notably the University of Cincinnati, Georeg Mason University (Washington DC) and Northern Kentucky University.

In May 2016, he hosted a group of Cincinnati students and staff who were visiting Scotland to learn more about Scottish Criminal Justice matters. They spent time at Abertay University, where they will be learning about Scots Law, policing and forensic science matters and visited the Police HQ in Dundee, as well as Glasgow Sheriff Court and Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow.

This will be the start of an exchange programme with the University of Cincinnati in the future.

William is a Consultant with Northamptonshire Police (from July 2018) working with them to establish a violence reduction programme for gangs, Northampton Community Initiative to Reduce Violence (CIRV). 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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