Research Output per year
Personal profile
Teaching
Currently Teaching:
Exploring Criminology
Development of Policing
Particulars
Currently Chairperson of the Board of Directors at Community Restorative Justice Ireland (CRJI)
Currently on the Executive of the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ)
Previously on the Executive Committee of the Northern Ireland Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NIACRO) April 2017 - September 2019
Previously an Independent Member of the Belfast Policing and Community Safety Partnership (PCSP) November 2013 - February 2015
Research Interests
John is a lecturer in Lecturer in Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, with research specialising in the area of policing.
To date, he has worked on a variety of research, consultancy and advisory roles with all the major policing institutions in Northern Ireland. This includes experience of engaging and working with the Police Service of Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Policing Board, Office of the Police Ombudsman for Northern, and the Police Federation for Northern Ireland.
In addition, he has also acted as an Indepdendent member of the Belfast Policing and Community Safety Partnership.
John has published widely in the area of policing, with particular focus on police stop and search powers, community policing, police reform, public order policing and paramilitarism.
Previous Grant Successes:
Awarded £74,000 from British Academy Advanced Newton Fellowship Fund to collaborate with Federal University Sao Paolo, Brazil on police reform
Awarded £6,500 from PSNI to examine community expectations around Policing with the Community (September 2016)
Awarded £60,306 co-investigator as part of successful multidisciplinary Ulster University team on EU HORIZON 2020 GAP ‘Gaming for Peace’ bid lead by Trinity College, Dublin (Jan. 2016)
Awarded £165,000 co-investigator as part of successful multidisciplinary University of Ulster team on EU HORIZON 2020 FCT10 bid worth total of 4.9m Euros (June 2015)
Awarded £15,000 consultancy from INTERCOMM IRELAND for examining engagement of young people with PSNI (December 2014)
Awarded £2850 consultancy from Belfast City Council Community Safety Unit to design a survey tool for the Belfast Policing and Community Safety Partnership for policing and community safety issues (March 2014)
Awarded £10,000 across two tenders from the Northern Ireland Policing Board to examine issues related to confidence in Police Service of Northern Ireland: "The key drivers of public confidence in policing in NI" and "The influence of politicians, community leaders and the media has on confidence in the police in NI" (February 2014)
Awarded £2935.50 consultancy from Police Service of Northern Ireland for supervising intra-organisational research by police officers (May 2014)
Principle Investigator: Awarded £20,000 tender from the Police Service of Northern to research public order policing (joint bid with Institute for Conflict Research) (April 2012)
Principle Investigator: Awarded £6000 tender to examine community safety, peace walls and new Police Community Safety Partnerships from Belfast Conflict Resolution Consortium (September 2011)
Awarded £4500 tender/teaching contract from PSNI to deliver two day criminology short course for senior PSNI officers: ‘Enhancing Policing: A Criminology of Crime and Society’ (PUP107) (March 2012)
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Research Output 2008 2019
Book Review: Southern N (2018) : Policing and the Combating of Terrorism in Northern Ireland: The Royal Ulster Constabulary GC. Palgrave MacMillan
Topping, J., 24 Jan 2019, In : Irish Journal Of Sociology. 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
CONTINUING A-PACE: Phase One Report & Recommendations For PSNI Police College
Topping, J., 14 Jan 2019, Belfast. 16 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
CONTINUING A-PACE: Phase Two Report For PSNI Police College
Topping, J., 06 Jun 2019, 26 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
LawPod: Policing in Northern Ireland
Topping, J., 18 Oct 2019Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
The Use of 'Everyday' Stop and Search Powers
Topping, J., 18 Oct 2019, Just News - The Committee on the Administration of Justice, Autumn 2019.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
Prizes
Queen's Student Union Education Awards 2018 - Nomination
John Topping (Recipient), 29 Mar 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Queen's Student Union Education Awards 2018 - Winner
John Topping (Recipient), 18 Apr 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities 2007 2019
Irish Policing Authority Research Networking Event
John Topping (Participant)Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
External Examiner
John Topping (Examiner)Activity: Examination types › UG external examination
Policing, Human Rights and Communities
John Topping (Invited speaker)Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited or keynote talk at national or international conference
Patten 20 Years On: Young People, Policing and Stop and Search
John Topping (Organiser)Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference
Stephen Martin
John Topping (Host)Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting of external, non-academic visitor
Press / Media
BBC Newsline NI - Patten 50/50 Recruitment
12/09/2019
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Stop and search powers 'used on thousands of NI children'
04/09/2019
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Police stop and search 35,000 Northern Ireland kids in eight years
04/09/2019
1 item of media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Why are Northern Ireland’s prisons so empty?
04/04/2019
1 media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment