Mr Ian Grant
Senior Lecturer (Professional Practice) in Police Practice

Summary

Ian joined Brunel University in January 2022 and is the programme lead for the Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA). Prior to joining Brunel he was a senior lecturer at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol where he led the Research and Evidence Based Policing module and supervised dissertation students.  Ian has almost 33 years of uniformed policing experience. He served for nine years in the Royal Military Police (RMP) and 24 years as an officer with Northamptonshire Constabulary. He was a core policing trainer at Northamptonshire where he taught across a variety of policing programmes including the first PCDA course in conjunction with Northampton University.  In 2020 he made a significant contribution to the design and implementation of Northamptonshire Police and Northampton University’s Degree Holder Entry Programme (Uniform) (DHEP(U)).

Ian has a degree in policing from Canterbury Christ Church University and his main research interest lies in Interpreter Mediated Police Interviews (IMPI) and is a member if the International Investigative Interviewing Research Group. He has presented his research findings to the members of the Association of Police and Court Interpreters (APCI) and MA translation students at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. He has given two presentations at the Embassy of Japan in London on the criminal justice system in England and Wales. Additionally, he is interested in police education, liberal democratic policing and written and spoken language in legal contexts. He is enthusiastic about the ‘learner experience’ and learning technologies, and is a long-suffering language learner.  

Qualifications

BSc. (Hons) Policing, PGCert (Teaching & learning in HE), FHEA

Responsibility

1. Programme Leader - Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship (PCDA).

2. Fellowship Mentor.

3. Research Reading Group (Policing) Lead.