Student-centred learning strategies will be employed throughout the programme to ensure a balance of theory and practice that is both personalised and collaborative.

Students are expected to critically reflect on a variety of policing contexts and cases and be able to integrate and apply new knowledge to new situations.

Students will form a learning community and will be engaged in negotiation and management of learning tasks, and will gain practical experience of key policing practice activities, many of which will relate to authentic, real-world problems and cases.

Students will be charged with selecting contemporary, and sometimes controversial, topics from the professional police practice discipline area that are of concern to society to stretch students’ standpoints and considerations of police-related research. This allows students to take responsibility for their learning by giving them scope to choose areas of interest to them while they develop their independent learning and build confidence in developing arguments and expressing strongly held viewpoints.

Students are expected to interrogate theoretical concepts and principles with consideration for a diverse range of legal and policing contexts. Students will critically engage with differing philosophical perspectives and concepts that underpin approaches to the subject area.

Students, reflecting on influences and experiences, will construct their own arguments, drawing on appropriately selected evidence and after critical engagement with their fellow learners and tutors.

Learners will be engaged in re-construction of ideas in different media both as individuals and in collaboration with fellow learners and tutors in smaller groupings.