Owen Garling reflects on the experience of talking about social infrastructure with community groups, how the project effectively engaged the public, and why it’s so important they are included in conversations.
Ben Hepworth explores what ‘impact’ means inside and outside government and good practical advice on how to achieve it.
CAPE Policy Fellow Roshnee Patel shares how being exposed to diversity of thought during her policy fellowship has influenced her own thinking about policy making.
Roshnee Patel joins Sarah Chaytor to discuss the different roles that academics can play when engaging with policy.
A guide for universities to create a fellowship programme for policy professionals to meet academics to discuss their policy questions.
CAPE Policy Fellow Florence Greatrix shares with CAPE six key things she’s learnt about GO-Science at the end of her fellowship.
Gemma Burgess and Katy Karampour from the University of Cambridge reflect on their CAPE Collaboration Fund project which evaluates modular housing schemes for homelessness in Cambridge. They discuss how co-production and collaboration has worked with their partner Jimmy’s Cambridge and how this will help to inform future policy decisions by Cambridgeshire County Council.
Darren Sharpe outlines how his Policy Fellowship with Newham experimented to better include marginalised voices in the policy making process.
In September 2022, two Senedd committees launched the Senedd’s first Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) as a new way to improve committees’ engagement with the research community. ARI topics include climate change, modal shift and active travel, sustainable communities, and health literacy. In this blog Rob Davies, CAPE Policy Fellow, outlines how researchers can engage with the ARIs and how they aim to support parliamentary scrutiny.
CAPE is pleased to see the launch of the Yorkshire & Humber Policy Engagement & Research Network (Y-PERN) which has been awarded £3.9m of funding from the Research England Development (RED) fund.
Why we need more join up to establish a culture of working together in academic policy engagement.
This case study explores the ways in which inclusive research can provide a rich foundation for successful collaboration between academics and policy-makers and a better future for participants.
