Dr. John Coxhead
Professor of Policing Innovation and Learning, International PIEL Centre
University of East London
Professor John Coxhead, SFHEA, is a pracademic having served as a police professional for over 30 years whilst also being engaged in academic research. He has held Professorial positions at Keele University and Loughborough University in the UK, and is currently Professor and Director of the International PIEL Centre, within the Royal Docks School, of Business and Law, at the University of East London, which collaborates with researchers in the USA, Canada, Australia, India and the West Indies. He has researched and published both overt and covert materials across a wide range of industrial high impact topics, including enhancing performance through agile learning, and tackling serious and organised crime. He is the founder of the UK Innovation in Policing national competition and has worked for several years in police academic collaborations, to bring academic research closer to operational policing application.
