Dr Rick Muir is Director of the Police Foundation, the UK’s independent policing think tank. He has been a public policy researcher for most of his career. Before joining the Police Foundation he worked on public service reform, including on policing and criminal justice policy, at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). Prior to that he did his DPhil in Latin American politics at the University of Oxford. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Northumbria University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). He was previously a local councillor in both Oxford and Hackney.

Rick will be supporting the Vulnerability & Policing Futures Research Centre with its policy work, offering advice on how to best engage with senior policing and political stakeholders to maximise the impact of the Centre’s work. In addition to being a Co-Investigator Rick is a member of the Centre’s National Engagement Group.