Professor Rob Briner
The principles of evidence-based policing are slowly but surely influencing the practice of policing professionals. There are many barriers to evidence-based practice in any field. One potential barrier is the extent to which evidence-based practice oriented professionals and their organizations are managed in an evidence-based way. If management practices and processes are not particularly evidence-based and driven by, for example, management fads and fashions or the hunches of senior management teams, then it makes it difficult for those being managed in this way to stick to evidence-based practice principles in their work. This presentation will discuss the development of evidence-based practice in management, some of the challenges of adopting this approach, and how evidence-based practice principles can be spread across policing organizations from front-line policing to management decision-making.
Biography
Rob is Professor of Organizational Psychology at Queen Mary, University of London and was co-founder and Scientific Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Management (www.cebma.org). His research has focused on several topics including well-being, emotions, stress, ethnicity, the psychological contract, absence from work, motivation, work-nonwork and everyday work behaviour.
Beyond academic research Rob helps practitioners and organizations make better use of evidence, including research evidence, in decision-making as well as encouraging academics to make research more accessible. He has written for and presented to practitioners on many aspects of HR and organizational psychology and is now involved in many initiatives aimed at developing and promoting evidence-based practice. He has received several awards for his work in this area including the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational Psychology Academic Contribution to Practice Award in 2014 and topped HR Magazine’s Most Influential Thinker list in 2016 and in 2019 received a Lifetime Achievement Award and was admitted to HR Magazine’s Hall of Fame.
He is regularly invited as a keynote to international conferences (examples below) and consults and delivers workshops mostly on evidence-based management to a range of public, private and third sector organizations (e.g., ARUP, Home Office, Kantar, MoD, Pearson, River Island, NSPCC, College of Policing).