The Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence (TYP-ACE)
Posted on Thursday 27 November 2025
The Yorkshire Policing-Academic Centre of Excellence (TYP-ACE) is a new joint initiative between the Universities of York and Leeds.
TYP-ACE (pronounced 'type ace’) is a university-wide accreditation, as part of a national programme funded by National Police Chiefs’ Council and UKRI.
As one of nine Policing-Academic Centres of Excellence across the country, it acts as a bridge between academic expertise and national policing partners, ensuring that evidence, insight and innovation shape practice and improve public safety.
Membership in the TYP-ACE expert network offers opportunities including:
- generate real-world impact: connect your research directly with policing partners to address practical challenges and contribute to tangible improvements in community safety
- seed funding opportunities: access multiple rounds of seed-corn funding to support knowledge exchange activities, amplify your existing research and develop exploratory co-produced projects aligned with regional and national policing priorities
- thematic engagement: contribute to work across four key thematic areas: crime prevention, public trust in policing, data analytics and climate change.
As a challenge-led centre, TYP-ACE actively seeks researchers from all faculties and departments whose work intersects with or is relevant to policing, irrespective of disciplinary home or methodological approach.
This includes everything from critical and theoretical social science to enabling technologies, data science, engineering, health research and mathematics.
To express your interest in joining the expert network or sharing your research, please complete this short form. You can get in touch with TYP-ACE project manager Dr Eleri Pound at policing@leeds.ac.uk.
To find out more about TYP-ACE, sign up for an information webinar on Tuesday 9 December at 9.30am.