This problem is a UK government area of research interest (ARI) that was originally posted at <a target='_blank' href='https://ari.org.uk/'>https://ari.org.uk/</a> by a UK government organisation to indicate that they are keen to see research related to this area.The strengths and weaknesses of animal models.The Home Office is responsible for regulating animal experimentation and the underlying policy.Contact detailsresearch@homeoffice.gov.uk

The strengths and weaknesses of animal models.

This problem is a UK government area of research interest (ARI) that was originally posted at <a target='_blank' href='https://ari.org.uk/'>https://ari.org.uk/</a> by a UK government organisation to indicate that they are keen to see research related to this area.Improving understanding of the activities carried out in the fire system and their effectiveness.Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.Contact detailsresearch@homeoffice.gov.ukRelated UKRI Projects<ul><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=508854">University of Greenwich and Kent Fire and Rescue Service</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=710495">Fire Fighting: New Technology and Equipment</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FJ006432%2F1">ENHANCING UNDERSTANDING OF WILDFIRE BEHAVIOR AND SUPPRESSION WITHIN THE UK FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FT003553%2F1">Toward a UK fire danger rating system: Understanding fuels, fire behaviour and impacts</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10058103">South Eastern Mediterranean Excellence Development in FIre REsearch (SEMEDFIRE)</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FF041993%2F1">A Risk-Based Fire and Rescue Management System</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FI033181%2F1">Measurement and Prediction of Fire Smoke Toxicity of Materials in Enclosures.</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FG026076%2F1">Evaluation of Prevention and Protection Activities on Commercial, Public and Heritage Buildings</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FJ500768%2F1">Knowledge for Wildfire</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FP029582%2F1">Improving the resilience of informal settlements to fire (IRIS-Fire)</a></li></ul>

Improving understanding of the activities carried out in the fire system and their effectiveness.

This problem is a UK government area of research interest (ARI) that was originally posted at <a target='_blank' href='https://ari.org.uk/'>https://ari.org.uk/</a> by a UK government organisation to indicate that they are keen to see research related to this area.How recruitment of cheap (migrant and native) labour balances against investment in new technology.Science and analysis play a crucial role in providing the best evidence base to inform policy, and showing the best way forward within a given policy framework. The Home Office’s operational work covers travel and the border, working with the vast majority who comply with the rules and with those that may not: controlling and managing the border; administering passports, visas and asylum applications; applying and enforcing immigration rules.Contact detailsresearch@homeoffice.gov.ukRelated UKRI Projects<ul><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS011919%2F1">Skills and Innovation in the Labour Market</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV016490%2F1">Labour mobility in transition: a multi-actor study of the re-regulation of migrant work in 'low-skilled' sectors</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FR011443%2F1">The Adjustment Effects of a Skilled Labour Supply Shock</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10103122">SKILLS4JUSTICE: SKILL PARTNERSHIPS FOR SUSTAINABLE AND JUST MIGRATION PATTERNS</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX005828%2F2">"LEVELLING UP" LABOUR SUPPLY</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV011057%2F1">Tracking Public Attitudes and Preferences for Post-COVID-19 Labour Migration Policies</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY001001%2F1">Exploring the nexus between immigration, integration and labour market outcomes</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX005720%2F1">Picking, packing and plucking: International Migration in the post Brexit world</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT008474%2F1">Labour Market Power and Inequality</a></li></ul>

How recruitment of cheap (migrant and native) labour balances against investment in new technology.

This problem is a UK government area of research interest (ARI) that was originally posted at <a target='_blank' href='https://ari.org.uk/'>https://ari.org.uk/</a> by a UK government organisation to indicate that they are keen to see research related to this area.The social and psychological harm of new forms of crime.Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.Contact detailsresearch@homeoffice.gov.ukRelated UKRI Projects<ul><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FM010295%2F1">A Profiler for Crime, Criminal Justice and Social Harm</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV00445X%2F1">Reducing the Unanticipated Crime Harms of COVID-19 Policies</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT00181X%2F1">A Unified Approach to Measuring the Costs of Violent Crime Risk</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FK010646%2F1">Exploring and explaining the role of disadvantage in crime causation</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV004921%2F1">COVID-19 and Child Criminal Exploitation: Closing Urgent Knowledge and Data Gaps on the Implications of Pandemic for County Lines.</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL007223%2F1">University Consortium for Evidence-Based Crime Reduction</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FH00582X%2F1">Policies and regulation of crime prevention: contrasting the Anglo-American and Spanish experience</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV01742X%2F1">Why do juveniles commit crime? New Evidence from England's linked administrative data</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FK006398%2F1">Long-term Trajectories of Crime in the UK</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT015667%2F1">Re-counting crime: New methods to improve the accuracy of estimates of crime</a></li></ul>

The social and psychological harm of new forms of crime.

This problem is a UK government area of research interest (ARI) that was originally posted at <a target='_blank' href='https://ari.org.uk/'>https://ari.org.uk/</a> by a UK government organisation to indicate that they are keen to see research related to this area.Capability against money laundering and other illicit transactions, including relating to alternative currencies.Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.Contact detailsresearch@homeoffice.gov.ukRelated UKRI Projects<ul><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=830276">FinCAI – Financial Crime Actionable Intelligence via an Enhanced Data Hub.</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=86174">FinTech digital solution to prevent online payments to criminal traders</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FL014920%2F2">Dirty Assets: Experiences, reflections, and lessons learnt from a decade of legislation on criminal money laundering and terrorism financing</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS008853%2F1">How Online Technologies are Transforming Transnational Organised Crime (Cyber-TNOC)</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FP001327%2F1">The Financial Aspects of the Trade in Counterfeit Products: An Exploratory Study</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FP001386%2F1">The (Mis)Use of Corporate Vehicles by Transnational Organised Crime Groups in the Concealment, Conversion and Control of Illicit Finance</a></li></ul>

Capability against money laundering and other illicit transactions, including relating to alternative currencies.

This problem is a UK government area of research interest (ARI) that was originally posted at <a target='_blank' href='https://ari.org.uk/'>https://ari.org.uk/</a> by a UK government organisation to indicate that they are keen to see research related to this area.Constructing secure evidential cases against offenders in a changing technological context.Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.Contact detailsresearch@homeoffice.gov.ukRelated UKRI Projects<ul><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FJ004189%2F1">Quantifying Digital Forensic Investigations and their Evidence</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=700666">Innovative Cloud-Based Application for Evidence and Data Presentation in Court Cases</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=509531">Teesside University and Acume Forensics Limited</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=73872">NEXUS: Next-generation Evidence eXamination Underpinned by Semantics — A First-of-a-kind AI Platform for Digital Forensics Investigations</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FR00742X%2F1">Understanding the Use of Digital Forensics in Policing in England and Wales: An Ethnographic Analysis of Current Practices and Professional Dynamics</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FM020576%2F1">CRITiCaL - Combatting cRiminals In The CLoud</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY010647%2F1">Towards a Smart Digital Forensic Advisor to Support First Responders with At-Scene Triage of Digital Evidence Across Crime Types</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10037395">Bournemouth University and Bluestar Software Limited KTP 22_23 R2</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FM020320%2F1">Interdisciplinary Centre for Finding, Understanding and Countering Crime in the Cloud</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=700015">D-Figo and D-safe - Digital Evidence Management Solution</a></li></ul>

Constructing secure evidential cases against offenders in a changing technological context.

This problem is a UK government area of research interest (ARI) that was originally posted at <a target='_blank' href='https://ari.org.uk/'>https://ari.org.uk/</a> by a UK government organisation to indicate that they are keen to see research related to this area.Recovering fingerprints from various materials; automatically processing fingerprints; getting additional information (not just the image itself) from fingerprints.Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.Contact detailsresearch@homeoffice.gov.ukRelated UKRI Projects<ul><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=50762">FINDER: Forensic Identification via Non-Destructive Evidence Retrieval</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=106049">Automatic Finger and Palm Print Matching Using Multiple Features</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=509990">Sheffield Hallam University and Consolite Technology Limited</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10065388">TENSOR - Reliable biomeTric tEhNologies to asSist Police authorities in cOmbating terrorism and oRganized crime</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FD040930%2F1">At scene of crime DNA characterisation</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=103716">White Light Interferometry as a method for determining the volume/mass of fingerprints.</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=101356">Non-invasive Testing for Drugs in Fingerprints to Address an Unmet Need of Coroners</a></li></ul>

Recovering fingerprints from various materials; automatically processing fingerprints; getting additional information (not just the image itself) from fingerprints.

This problem is a UK government area of research interest (ARI) that was originally posted at <a target='_blank' href='https://ari.org.uk/'>https://ari.org.uk/</a> by a UK government organisation to indicate that they are keen to see research related to this area.Relationship between extremism and integration, dynamics of friendship/familial and community relationships, and links between hate crime, other societal crimes and extremism.Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.Contact detailsresearch@homeoffice.gov.ukRelated UKRI Projects<ul><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FN008812%2F1">Youth Extremisms: Understanding across Ideological and Religious Contexts (Research Seminar Series)</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ020907%2F1">'Extremism and Its Support: Developing More Effective Policy Responses'</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FJ01186X%2F1">Communities as defeating and/or endorsing extreme violence: how do communities support and/or defeat extreme violence over time?</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL000857%2F1">Right Wing Extremism in Contemporary Europe</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FJ003115%2F1">Reframing Muslim 'Radicalism'</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FL013169%2F2">Connectors, not Communities, in Preventing and Responding to Violence and Disaffection; Marginalised Youth in relation to Complexities of 'Community'.</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FN008006%2F1">Predicting online radicalisation</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF008112%2F1">An Examination of Partnership Approaches to Challenging Religiously-Endorsed Violence involving Muslim Groups and Police.</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW010151%2F2">Everyday transnationalism of the far right: an interdisciplinary study of Polish immigrants' participation in far-right groups in Britain</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FT004460%2F1">#ContestingIslamophobia: Representation and Appropriation in Mediated Activism.</a></li></ul>

Relationship between extremism and integration, dynamics of friendship/familial and community relationships, and links between hate crime, other societal crimes and extremism.

This problem is a UK government area of research interest (ARI) that was originally posted at <a target='_blank' href='https://ari.org.uk/'>https://ari.org.uk/</a> by a UK government organisation to indicate that they are keen to see research related to this area.Improved knowledge of the harms and impacts of SOC activity, including the economic impact.More detailed research priorities for serious and organised crime can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/serious-and-organised-crime-home-office-research-priorities- april-2018-to-march-2021 ↩Contact detailsresearch@homeoffice.gov.ukRelated UKRI Projects<ul><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FN018494%2F1">Strategic Hub for Organised Crime Research</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FS008853%2F1">How Online Technologies are Transforming Transnational Organised Crime (Cyber-TNOC)</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FN002180%2F2">Corruption in (Non-)Criminal Commercial Enterprise: Law, Theory and Practice</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FI022406%2F2">North-South Irish Responses to Transnational Organised Crime</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FP001386%2F1">The (Mis)Use of Corporate Vehicles by Transnational Organised Crime Groups in the Concealment, Conversion and Control of Illicit Finance</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=97617">Synalogik: Detecting and challenging Local Government Authority (LGA) Fraud committed by Organised Criminal Groups (OCG) through Investigation Process Automation</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FL014920%2F2">Dirty Assets: Experiences, reflections, and lessons learnt from a decade of legislation on criminal money laundering and terrorism financing</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10078194">Fight Against Large-scale Corruption and Organised Crime Networks (FALCON)</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10098067">ARtificial IntelligencE in fighting illicit drugs production and traffickiNg</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10033573">Transform Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs); UK's First Technology Line of Defence</a></li></ul>

Improved knowledge of the harms and impacts of SOC activity, including the economic impact.

This problem is a UK government area of research interest (ARI) that was originally posted at <a target='_blank' href='https://ari.org.uk/'>https://ari.org.uk/</a> by a UK government organisation to indicate that they are keen to see research related to this area.Detecting threat materials of all kinds without disrupting business, through automation and improved operator effectiveness. For example: combining novel technology with big data analytics; systems approaches; behavioural insights.More detailed research priorities for serious and organised crime can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/serious-and-organised-crime-home-office-research-priorities- april-2018-to-march-2021 ↩Contact detailsresearch@homeoffice.gov.ukRelated UKRI Projects<ul><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10033573">Transform Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs); UK's First Technology Line of Defence</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=700591">Early Alert - Exploiting Innovative Technology to Reduce high impact crimes</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=830150">Synalogik: Identifying and Tackling Fraud Through Investigation Automation.</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10040457">Protecting the EuRopean terrItory from organised enVironmentAl crime through inteLLigent threat detectiON tools (PERIVALLON)</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10028033">LEADS-Engine: Linguistically Enabled Analytic Dark Search Engine</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10078203">European Network Against Crime and Terrorism (ENACT)</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=97617">Synalogik: Detecting and challenging Local Government Authority (LGA) Fraud committed by Organised Criminal Groups (OCG) through Investigation Process Automation</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10037395">Bournemouth University and Bluestar Software Limited KTP 22_23 R2</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FK03345X%2F1">Identifying and Modelling Victim, Business, Regulatory and Malware Behaviours in a Changing Cyberthreat Landscape</a></li><li><a href="https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FM020320%2F1">Interdisciplinary Centre for Finding, Understanding and Countering Crime in the Cloud</a></li></ul>

Detecting threat materials of all kinds without disrupting business, through automation and improved operator effectiveness. For example: combining novel technology with big data analytics; systems approaches; behavioural insights.

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