Professor John Coxhead is an experienced pracademic who has worked in professorial roles, at the Universities of Keele and Loughborough, and in specialist professional policing roles, with the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), the Strategic Police Matters Unit (SPMU), the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC).

Dr Coxhead is an experienced academic external examiner, and, as well as traditional writing outputs, has produced several confidential advisory reports for Government bodies, such as the UK Home Office. 

John is a specialist in ethnographical research and learning transference, with experience in work-based training, and the training of trainers, with expertise in evaluating classroom knowledge transfer to workplace skill performance. As a training professional, he is a master practitioner of the international Deming method for quality focus, an approach which has informed many subsequent global movements such as LEAN, Six Sigma, Kaizen and the Toyota Way.

He supports high impact research (something that makes a 'real-world' difference), and is a team member of the Peer Review College for United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI); European Editor for the International Police Executive Symposium (IPES, New York); Editorial Review Board member of the International Journal of Law and Society (ijlawsociety.org) (New York); Management Committee member of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Standing Group on Organised Crime (SGOC); and founder of the UK ‘Innovation in Policing’ national competition.

He is working internationally on several research and policing performance improvement projects with colleagues in the USA, Canada, India, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, and the Caribbean.