A report, executive summary, and key statistics document exploring experiences of work and the potential for union renewal in Islington.
A report outlining the considerations for growing or expanding a policy engagement function at a university in order to support increased engagement between academics and policy organisations.
Martin King, CAPE Collaboration Fund awardee, discusses his project in collaboration with the North of Tyne Combined Authority, now North East Combined Authority, to explore the benefits and challenges of civic technology to facilitate participation in policy making.
Sarah Chaytor, CAPE Co-Investigator, reflects on how CAPE has contributed to the wider academic-policy landscape over the past four years, and points to how practice and impact can be improved in the future.
If you’re intending on attending party conferences in the Autumn, see this blog from CAPE Tim Hutchings where he goes through some practical considerations on how to go into it.
CAPE reflects on our workshop at the Association of Research Managers and Administrators (ARMA) conference and how co-creating personas of the policy engagement enquiries of academics at different stages of the research journey can help break down university silos.
To tackle career limiting decisions and stereotyping amongst children and young people, CAPE Collaboration Fund awardee Carol Davenport worked with the North East Local Enterprise Partnership. Together they developed a policy briefing aiming to influence education policy to support young people to make appropriately informed career choices.
Have you ever thought that playing cards could help your policy engagement? Academics from one of our CAPE projects have been working on just that, developing a set of policy engagement cards as part of the “Cardographer project”.
Policy Fellow Michelle Reeves explores the pivotal role of collaborative ventures between London’s universities and London government in addressing complex strategic issues facing the capital.
A one stop shop for our more comprehensive toolkits and guides, summing up their application and designed to walk you through what resource will be useful for you in different scenarios.
Barry Coughlan, University of Cambridge, explores how working with their policy partner, the National Children’s Bureau, helped ensure that policy and practice messages were informed by those with lived experience when researching outcomes for children who have experienced adversity.
A report exploring different emerging models for regional academic-policy engagement, specific challenges of engagement at the regional policy level, and outlining conditions that will strengthen this.
