Global Learning Partners

Transforming Organisations Through Research, Development & Learning.

DRM International specialise in Research, Learning and Development. We support organisations to achieve meaningful and sustainable change.

Our team is diverse. We consist of senior executive leaders, multi disciplinary practitioners and research academics who have worked across the world with organisations like the UN, GCHQ and international police services. We combine real-world operational experience with research-driven insight to develop solutions that are research informed, practical and sustainable. Our goal is simple: to deliver dynamic solutions that create measurable impact.

Our Services

Training, Learning & Development

We provide a number of Learning and Development solutions based on your organisational needs.

Whether its a 1 hour training session, a short course, or a more comprehensive structured programme, we can build and deliver whatever your organisation requires.

Our certified programmes are supported by the University of Buckingham. We are entirely flexible and can deliver individual modules, complete programmes or a combination of modules across courses.

Our delivery model is equally flexible. We are able to deliver online, in person or through blended means based on the programme and organisational needs.

Our programme designers are fellows of the Higher Education Academy. This means they have a robust focus on critical pedagogy and andragogy for the best learner experience when creating programmes.

For more information on any of our programmes or courses, please email us at contact@drm.international.

Professional Investigation Programme

This programme is designed to introduce practitioners to the principles of an effective evidence-based investigation.  It ensures delegates understand the fundamentals of an ethical investigation to maintain trust, confidence and organisational legitimacy whilst being led by the evidence.    

The Professional Investigation Programme has been specifically developed by former senior police officers from the British police service.  It is an essential programme for personnel where investigation is part of an organisational function or process, for example, Human Resources, compliance or finance.

Modules Include:

  • Evidence Informed Practice
  • Complex Investigations
  • Investigative Leadership
  • Artificial Intelligence & Cyber Crime
  • Investigative Bias & Public Legitimacy

Professional Leadership Programme

This programme is designed to support individuals in public or private sector organisations develop leadership capabilities as (aspiring) managers and leaders.  The course guides delegates to lead with purpose and values, drive excellence and manage resources strategically, foster a collaborative culture through authentic personal leadership, empowerment and partnership building and research informed leadership. 

This is an excellent programme for which caters for introductory and middle leadership professional development. Modules Include:

  • Understanding Leadership Styles
  • Managing People, Leading & Team
  • Culture, Identity & Organisational Inclusivity
  • Evidence Based Leadership

International Security & Major Incidents

Designed and delivered by senior police officers from UK Counter Terrorism Policing and academic subject matter experts. Course Modules include:

  • Cyber Security
  • Intelligence, Oversight & Accountability
  • Intelligence Management: Policy, Ethics & Law
  • Social Media & Terrorism
  • Gendered Violence
  • Managing Major Incidents

Executive Leadership Programme

The Executive Leadership Course is designed by former Chief Constables from the British Police Service.

This programme prepares future leaders for the role and responsibilities of executive leadership.

For more information about this course please email us at :

contact@drm.international

Professional Teaching Practice

This programme is designed enhance capability within organisational Learning and Development.  It equips delegates with advanced pedagogical knowledge, reflective practice skills and professional confidence required to design, deliver and evaluate inclusive and effective learning environments.  Delegates  will be able to develop engaging and effective learning through innovative pedagogy, andragogy and assessment strategies to create engaging, supportive and challenging learning environments in person, online and through blended means for diverse adult learners.

This programme is essential for organisations seeking to enhance capability, build capacity and develop self-sustainability. 

Programme Module include:

  • Introduction to Adult Learning
  • Pedagogy & Andragogy in Adult Education
  • Assessment Types & Feedback Methods
  • Inclusive Learning Environments
  • Making Use of Technology
  • For more information on these please email us at contact @drm.international.

Servant of the Crown.

COMING SOON.

This programme has been designed specifically to recognise the academic standards of students who joined policing through the PCER or non accredited PEQF entry routes.

The Servant of the Crown programme is also open to police personnel who joined the service prior to the academic accreditation of police training. It enables longer serving police personnel to receive recognition of the skills and professionalism they demonstrate in their role as well as enhance their professional practice.

For more information on these please email us at contact @drm.international.

Health & Safety & Fire Safety Training.

COMING SOON.

Aligned to ISO 45001 & Saudi Arabia and GCC Standards

Programmes for Front Line Personnel, First Line Supervisors and Management.

For more information on these please email us at contact @drm.international.

Research

We provide short and long term research solutions on an array of organisational matters. Whether it’s Policing & Security, Public Health, Organisational Reform or mid to end point programme evaluation, we’re ready to assist.

We have subject matter experts and dedicated MEAL practitioners who have worked with some of the largest, most credible organisations in the world, the United Nations and British Police Service being indicative examples.

Engage our services for an initial consultation and we’ll direct the most suitable experts to support you and your business needs.

For more information regarding our consultancy services, please email us at contact@drm.international.

Advisory Board

Dr Rizwan Mustafa

Rizwan is an Associate Professor Security & Counter Radicalisation. He holds and PhD in Counter Terrorism from the University of Birmingham, a Masters in Islamic Studies from the University of Gloucestershire and PGCE from the University of Staffordshire.

Rizwan is an experienced former police officer, senior academic leader and specialist international consultant. Rizwan has worked across policing and public sector, international humanitarian aid and relief and with public administrators. He has led undergraduate and postgraduate policing programmes, reviewed national counter terrorism strategy and conducted capacity building and police reform reviews for the governments of Tunisia and Jordan.

Rizwan is an active counter terrorism and counter radicalisation researcher. He has worked closely with counter terrorism policing and is currently leading on research projects to explore Virtual Reality in Counter Terrorism Learning & Development. Rizwan is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Dr Luna Shamieh

Luna Shamieh holds a PhD in international security studies from the University of Public Service, Budapest.  She is an active researcher,  evaluator, trainer and strategic design specialist.  Luna has experience of  working with governments, international donors, and global organizations to design and implement stronger programmes with a keen focus on security, justice, education and agriculture.

Luna Has more than 20 years of monitoring & evaluation, planning international security experience local, national and institutional level.

Luna has developed national strategic plans in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region, including the national plan for children in Iraq and Jordan and child situation reports along the MENA region.

Carl Foulkes, QPM, MA

Carl retired as Chief Constable of North Wales Police after a long a distinguished career. He has spent 35 years working across the UK Public Sector, in the Royal Navy, Police Service and more recently Fire and Rescue service.

Carl’s policing career extends across some of the largest, diverse and complex policing areas, including the British Transport Police, West Midlands Police, Merseyside and North Wales Police areas. Carl has developed a broad range of skills across local policing, firearms, public order, investigation and intelligence.

Carl led the UK policing approach nationally for Witness Protection, Open-Source Investigation and Diversity Equality and Inclusion, delivering significant change and development. Whilst in West Midlands Police Carl led the police and partnership response to Guns and Gangs and Child Sexual Exploitation, working across local authority areas and closely with communities.

Carl is a passionate and committed advocate for people development having worked with the Senior Leadership Program to develop the next generation of senior police leaders, mentoring junior and senior officers and underrepresented groups. Carl was the UK policing United Nations He for She Ambassador, broadening the initiative to support officers and staff across the UK and across international borders.

Carl was recognised in the Queens Honours List with a Queens Police Medal for services to policing in 2019. More recently Carl has worked in a strategic governance and improvement role in the fire sector as a Fire Commissioner in South Wales Fire and Rescue Service.

Professor Katherine Brown

Katherine is a Professor of Religion, Gender and Global Security. Over the past decade she been researching the role of gender and religion in relation to Islamic extremism. She has an interest in gender-mainstreaming countering and preventing violent extremism efforts.

Katherine’s work focuses on gender, religion and resilience in global governance efforts in relation to terrorism.

Katherine is a widely published academic and has a depth of experience in international security from across the world. She has been an expert witness in court cases involving the radicalisation of women and children in the UK.

Professor Julian Richards

Julian gained a PhD in political violence in Pakistan, at Cambridge University, in 1993. He then spent nearly 20 years working in intelligence and security for the British Government, returning to academic life as a Research Fellow with Brunel University’s Centre for Intelligence and Security Studies in 2006. In 2008, he jointly founded the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies (BUCSIS) at the University of Buckingham, and became a full-time member of staff at the university two years later. As a Professor in the department, he is Programme Director for three MA programmes and the convenor of BUCSIS’s research school of MPhil and DPhil students.

Julian Richards is the author of four books and a number of papers and book chapters on a range of security and intelligence issues. He has given formal evidence to Government inquiries on privacy and security issues and is a regular media commentator on security and intelligence issues for national and international television and radio, including the BBC, Sky News, Al Jazeera, LBC radio, and the Islam Channel. His current research interests include a range of issues concerning global security and security policy; questions of extremism and radicalization; and the development of techniques in intelligence analysis.

Dr Yasmine Ezzeddine

Yasmine has extensive expertise at the intersection of ethical AI, criminal intelligence, forensic sciences, and security and policing. Drawing on a strong academic background, including a PhD on the application of Artificial Intelligence in law enforcement from Sheffield Hallam University and an MSc in Crime Science, Investigation and Intelligence from the University of Portsmouth, she provides evidence-based insights to organisations navigating complex challenges in technology, governance, and public safety.

Yasmine’s portfolio spans research management, policy advisory, and applied forensic science, with a proven track record of working on multi-national projects and delivering knowledge transfer across academia, industry, and government.

Yasmine is also an experienced multilingual interpreter, bringing advanced linguistic and cultural fluency that complements her work in cross-border collaboration and international security contexts.

Nick Dale

Nick served for over two decades with West Midlands Police in the United Kingdom, with a varied career covering local policing, intelligence, investigations and counter-terrorism. He has also led major national projects developing data & analytics solutions for policing.

In 2015, Nick led Operation Fort, the largest modern slavery investigation in UK history. This operation identified around 400 victims and led to the conviction of over a dozen traffickers.  Through multiple roles in investigations, local policing and intelligence, Nick consistently focused on organised crime including human trafficking (labour exploitation, sexual exploitation and county lines trafficking)

His experience in tackling these crime types highlighted the critical role data plays in uncovering hidden networks of exploitation, led to him taking major roles in data & analytics, most latterly helping to set up a national data & analytics office for policing.

Nick has also worked in senior roles in Counter-Terrorism Police West Midlands, firstly as Deputy Head of Intelligence, and secondly as Head of Prevent..

Having retired from the police, in October 2024, Nick took on a new challenge as Director of Intelligence for global human trafficking charity Stop the Traffik.

Dr Eya Jrad

Eya is an Assistant Professor of security studies in Tunisia.  She is also the founding director of ‘Al Meshkat for Applied Research and Technical Assistance, a centre committed to supporting emerging leaders, strengthening organizational capacity and informing public policies.

Eya holds a PhD in International Relations Law. She has over 11 years of experience specializing in the Institutional Governance and Reform, P/CVE, the Rule of Law, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion and MEL. She has gained practical experience working in Tunisia and the broader MENA region (Libya, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Sudan, Yemen, Iraq and Kuwait). She comments or writes regularly for several national and international media outlets.

Professor Carlton Reeves

Carlton is a Professor of Narrative Design in creative industries. Carlton’s career in the Creative Industries spans both media production and academia. Having worked as a Commissioner for the BBC, Executive Producer and Creative Director for leading UK indies and as a consultant to organisations including the United Nations. Carlton has produced or commissioned around 10 hours of broadcast television (including the RTS award-winning iScience documentary for the BBC), more than 40 websites (including the BAFTA-nominated Rough Science) and more than a dozen games, including, in the last year, 3 AR games for the Natural History Museum, Science Museum and BBC.

Carlton is a judge for the BAFTA film and game awards, the national VR Awards and a grant assessor for government agencies. He has been interviewed about games, virtual reality and social media by regional and national press and television including the Independent, Daily Telegraph and ITV News.

Carlton was awarded a fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts in 2007 for my international work in education. He has authored more than 30 publications and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. 

Dr Moses Amagnya

Moses Agaawena Amagnya is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice, Programme Leader for Criminal Investigation and Policing Studies, and UN SDG Hub Fellow.

Moses holds a PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice from Griffith University in Australia and a Master of Philosophy in Criminology from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Moses also holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Higher and Professional Education from Staffordshire University and a Bachelor of Arts in Law and Sociology from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology.

Moses’ research interests include corruption and accountability, policing, criminal prosecution led by police officers, procedural justice, legitimacy, disproportionality in criminal justice systems and/or institutions, multi-agency working, and counterterrorism. Moses’s current research has explored corruption in criminal justice systems and institutions as well as police-citizens encounters and interactions, which can go a long way to influence compliance and/or ensure equitable delivery of justice.

Moses is an active researcher and is widely published.  

Dr Steve Hewitt

Steve is a British/Canadian academic interested in security and intelligence in the past and present and in a US/UK/Canada context.  Steve’s work has covered a range of topics, such as state surveillance against Canadian universities, UK and US counter-terrorism, a history of informants, and the world’s most famous police force, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Steve undertook his graduate work at the University of Saskatchewan and taught there and at the University of Indianapolis before coming to United Kingdom. Steve has written several books and articles related to security and intelligence, such as the history of Canadian policing and security, counter-terrorism in the UK since 9/11, and the use of informers by the police and intelligence services.

Due to the nature of his work, Steve has appeared extensively in the media, including on BBC Radio and Television, CBC Television and Radio.

Professor Tahir Abbas

Tahir is Professor of Criminology and Global Justice at Aston University. He was formerly Professor of Radicalisation Studies at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University (2018-2024). His research is situated at the intersection of political sociology, criminology, and critical terrorism studies, with a particular focus on the dynamics of radicalisation, Islamophobia, and social exclusion. He holds a PhD in Ethnic Relations from the University of Warwick, an MSocSc from the University of Birmingham, and a BSc(Econ) from Queen Mary University of London. Before his academic career, he served as a Senior Research Officer for the UK Home Office and Ministry of Justice. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts.

Professor Abbas has led several large-scale, European Commission-funded research projects, including serving as the Scientific Coordinator for the H2020 Drive project and Principal Investigator for the Protone project.

Tahir’s recent publications include the co-edited volumes Ethnicity, Religion, and Muslim Education in a Changing World (Routledge, co-edited, 2024), Global Counter-Terrorism: A Decolonial Approach (Manchester University Press, co-edited, 2025), and Capitalism, State Power, and the Production of Extremism (SpringerNature, 2025)..

James Holyoak

James is a former senior police officer having served over 30 years with the British Police Service.

James (Jim) is an authentic, leader with a proven record of developing people, improving performance and delivering sustainable change in the policing sector. As a police leader at tactical and strategic levels, he created adaptive, achievement-focused environments, by empowering teams and individuals to resolve problem challenges.

He has significant operational knowledge and skills relating to Professional Standards, Firearms Command, Post Incident Procedures and Counter Terrorist Protective Security. (CT-Secco).

After his career in policing, Jim supported the East Midlands Police and Academic Collaboration (EPMPAC), and became a Senior Lecturer at De Montfort University, developing one of the first Police Constable Degree Apprenticeship Programmes as part of the Police Education and Qualifications Framework.

As a dual professional, Jim designed and delivered a post graduate course in Leadership of Policing at the University of Staffordshire. This course equipped participants with the knowledge and skills to adapt and develop leadership practice in the complex environment demanded of 21st century policing.

Using this experience and positive peer feedback, Jim recently developed a further post graduate course in Investigation practice.

David Wells

Senior Organisational Reform Consultant.

UN SDG FOCUS

Contact@DRM.International

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