CEPOL Online Research & Science Conference 2021 – Call for papers

We are happy to share with you the news!

Our next edition of the CEPOL Research & Science Conference will take place from 5-7 May 2021.

CEPOL will have the honour to organise it in partnership with Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania) and for the first time in its history, the Conference will be hosted exclusively online.

Τhe topic for this year could be no other than ‘Pandemic Effects on Law Enforcement Training & Practice: Taking early stock from a research perspective’.

Call for papers open until 19 March 2021

Now is the time to take stock of our experiences, share knowledge, facts and lessons (to be) learnt, while exploring not only challenges but also new opportunities for the future. As it strives to offer top-notch, continuous professional learning opportunities to law enforcement officials in Europe and beyond, CEPOL recognises the importance, within the law enforcement community, of transferring scientific evidence -and research-based insights & findings- from the academic to the professional sphere. In this context, we invite practitioners from European law enforcement forces and institutions, as well as affiliated postgraduate researchers and academic scholars to submit contributions based on empirical studies in a variety of aspects and topics of policing and enforcing the law during the pandemic crisis and beyond:

• Training and Education during and after the Pandemic Crisis (Featured Track)
• Health & Safety Issues for Law Enforcement Officials
• Lessons (to be) learnt for Management and Leadership
• Changing Crime Patters during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Innovation triggered by the Pandemic Crisis
• Police-Public Relations and Public Order
• Open Corner

For this event, three formats for contributions will be accepted:

1. Regular paper presentation (with slides) - 20 min
2. Shout (lightning talk, with or without slides) - 5 min (strict)
3. Invited Keynote(s)

Abstracts of papers and proposals for contributions must be submitted in an online format by 19th March your through the dedicated conference website.

Submissions will be processed by the Programme Committee and presenters will be informed about acceptance in due time. Upon acceptance, authors will be offered the opportunity to have their final papers published in the Special Conference Edition Issue Nr. 5 of the European Law Enforcement Research Bulletin, CEPOL’s peer-reviewed, open-access scientific online publication.

Registration to the conference

CEPOL Research and Science Conference is open to all practitioners from European law enforcement forces and institutions, as well as affiliated postgraduate researchers and academic scholars. Registration to the event will be possible as of 1 April 2021.

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CEPOL Research and Science Conferences

Since 2003, the CEPOL Research & Science Conferences provide a stimulating intellectual environment that brings together ideas and perspectives of practitioners, trainers and educators in policing and other areas of law enforcement, with researchers and academic scholars from Europe and the international sphere. Participants of this forum can inform and be informed about new scientific findings, ongoing research projects and challenges for police and policing. Papers discussed during CEPOL Research and Science Conferences are published in a special Conference edition, so that ideas and knowledge can be shared within the law enforcement community, fostering and facilitating broader discussions and becoming a source of inspiration for the future.