Professor Nick Fyfe is the Dean of the School of Social Sciences at the University of Dundee and was the founding Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research, a strategic collaboration between a consortium of fourteen universities, Police Scotland and the Scottish Police Authority. He is also Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Police University, a Fellow of the Scottish Police College and a trustee of the Police Foundation.
He is on the editorial boards of several policing journals and in 2014 he was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Award by the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy for his work on developing the use of research evidence in policing policy and practice. His recent books includes as co-editor Centralizing forces? Comparative perspectives on police reform in northern and western Europe (2013, with Jan Terpstra and Pieter Tops) and Moral Issues in Intelligence-Led Policing (2018, with Helene Gundhus and Kira Vrist Ronn). He is currently leading a 4 year evaluation of police and fire reform in Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Government.