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MDXInternship Communications (Centre for Policing)

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1090583


Middlesex University


17/03/2025


2 Months


10 hours per week for 8 weeks


Smart Casual

Pay


£13.15


£1.59

Description

Role
**********The below role is only open to Middlesex University Students***********

This role will provide an opportunity to work with the Middlesex team who are responsible for training the next generation of front-line police officers. Working closely with members of the team, the role is designed to support the application of the data and document analysis skills developed in the classroom, to design recommendations around how to improve policing in policy and practice.  In the role you will develop your analytical and critical thinking skills, your ability to develop evidence-based recommendations for improvements, and how to communicate them effectively and convincingly to senior managers to bring effective real change. The ideal candidate is someone who is passionate about making positive changes that benefit society and wants to develop their skills to construct evidence based recommendations that will allow them to bring this change.  

Duties and responsibilities

  • To undertake analysis of a number of existing data sets from surveys undertaken with student police officers 

  • To construct a report of key findings with related evidence 

  • To use the findings from the data analysis to make recommendations for changes to the delivery of training  

  • To undertake a systematic review of a series of reports on a given topic (e.g. mental health and policing; the policing of domestic abuse cases) to produce a report of the key findings 

  • To use the findings from the systematic review to make recommendations for changes to policing policy and practice around a specific issue 

Skills and experience

Essential 

  • Working knowledge of SPSS including generating and interpreting frequencies and crosstabs 

  • Ability to extract key ideas from research reports and synthesise information on a given topic 

  • Strong time management skills and ability to meet deadlines

  • Comfortable working in a self-directed way as well as part of the team 

  • Ability to apply academic knowledge to real world problems to develop strategies for change 

Desirable 

  • Experience of undertaking systematic reviews of literature 

  • Experience with writing for non-academic audiences e.g. writing reports or briefings  

Location
Hendon campus or business office

Benefits

  • The internship offers the chance to further develop your data analysis and evidence synthesis skills in a real-world environment, applying the findings to bring change in policy and practice. You will be responsible for generating the initial findings then we will work with you to develop recommendations, supporting you to produce compelling, evidence-based interventions for change. This will equip you with the experience to undertake data and document analysis for evidence based policy making in whatever area you may enter in the future. 

  • You will have the opportunity to influence the experience of student officers’ training when they first join the police and help ensure the knowledge the officers acquire during their training can in turn improve wider policing practice.  

  • You will be involved in writing related reports as a named author 

  • You will be mentored by our Director of Policing programmes and the Associate Director of the Centre for Policing and will work closely with a number of the members of the policing team as you explore how to develop policy relevant recommendations for change. 

  • You do not need to know anything about policing or policing education for this role, this is the context in which you will develop your policy skills which you can then take to any area you are interested in, in the future.  

Additional information

Upload a tailored CV and full cover letter in the box. Use the MDXworks Resources to ensure you have created the best application.

Applications where there is clear reliance on AI and insufficient effort on your part will not be considered. Priority will be given to candidates who did not participate previously in the scheme

Deadline 31st Jan 2025, Midnight

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