Mr Phil Rudkin

Role

Phil Rudkin is a Principal Lecturer and Senior Fellow in Policing, Criminal Justice & International Law Enforcement within the School of Social Sciences.

Phil teaches and manages across a suite of courses at both under and postgraduate levels he consults and enhances partnerships with local, national and international law enforcement partners to develop new programmes and short courses.  

Phil has undertaken training to approve degrees, and chair examination boards.

Phil is part of the following committees within the School of Social Sciences:

• Timetabling
• Collaborative Quality
• Internationalisation
• Employability
• Request for Reconsideration (Appeals)
• Academic Misconduct

Career overview

Phil began his career working for Oxford Magnet Technology working as an ICT Helpdesk operative dealing with technical ICT issues following the successful completion of his degree in Computer Science.

He joined Leicestershire Police in 2003, He worked in both forward facing front line operational roles including response policing, neighbourhood policing and prisoner processing. He's also worked as a control room operative working alongside senior officers in Silver Command situations such as football matches, and large events such as the Download music festival.

He's trained new policing recruits both Specials, Regulars and PCSO’s legislative inputs and IT Systems required for their role. In 2015, he was the lead designer and instructor responsible for all the training of the Niche RMS system used by the City of London Police Northamptonshire Police, Leicestershire Police, Derbyshire Police and Nottinghamshire Police, which is on a shared collaborative platform holding the rank of Sgt and running large training teams.

In 2018 Phil started his career with NTU as a Senior Lecturer and was the programme leader for BA Policing, his role resulted in him developing the new BA Professional Policing degree licenced by the College of Policing for undergraduate study to be launched in Sep 2019. Phil was promoted to Principal Lecturer in 2019 with a portfolio of Policing and International Law Enforcement. As a result Phil manages  programmes spanning levels 4 to 7 both within NTU and with international partners. Phil heads up the policing and criminal justice team to effectively deliver provision for NTU.

In Sep 2021 Phil was appointed  as Adjunct Associate Professor for Saito University College in Malaysia where he advises on curriculum development, and is part of the board for the Security Academy until 2023.He was also appointed as Collaborative Academic lead in 2020 for NTU'S partnership with the Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission MACC. A post he will hold until September 2025.

In 2024 Phil achieved his Senior Fellowship from the  the Higher Education Academy .

In January 2025 Phil was made visiting Associate Professor for the Enforcement Law and Management University of Malaysia  in the school of Investigative Sciences.

External activity

Phil  is an external examiner for Policing and Professional Policing with Staffordshire University a position he has held since 2023 and City College Norwich.

Phil has previously been the Chief External Examiner for Coventry University.

Phil externally validates Policing programmes for universities in the UK and consults on international development and collaborative programmes for law enforcement agencies abroad.

Phil also acts as an external consultant for Niche RMS training design and delivery. A system utilised by law enforcement agencies globally.

Adjunct Associate Professor - Saito University College Malaysia 2021-2023.

Collaborative Academic Lead - Malaysian Anti Corruption Commission.

Phil is part of the Higher Education Forum, which is a collaboration of higher education establishments for police education.

Phil is Chair of the Finance committee for Asfordby Hill Primary School  where he also serves as a parent governor.

Phil is currently a serving magistrate (JP) for the Leicestershire and Rutland bench.

visiting Associate Professor for the Enforcement Law and Management University of Malaysia  in the school of Investigative Sciences. Jan 2025 to current.