A toolkit for research organisations to support greater understanding of the value of collaborative projects in academic-policy engagement and how to set up a funding stream to make such awards.
CAPE has always had collaboration at its core. In this essay CAPE Co-Investigator Sarah Chaytor shares how this has been an enabler for our engagement with policymakers and explores the ways in which we’ve embedded collaboration throughout our project and how we think you can build it.
A guide aimed at policy organisations who would like to develop Areas of Research Interest as a way to identify evidence needs and to support engagement with researchers.
A report, executive summary, and key statistics document exploring experiences of work and the potential for union renewal in Islington.
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.
A toolkit to support research to policy fellowships, outlining six value-based pillars to build strong foundations and ensure successful collaborations.
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.
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.
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”.
