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.
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.
Academics often give up their time to chat with policy professionals about policy priorities – nearly 400 did so as part of our policy fellowship programme. In this blog we ask, what motivates academics to meet with policy makers and what exactly do they get out of these interactions?
Case study from CAPE partner Northumbria who worked with Carnegie UK to develop a guide on roundtable approaches to building effective societal wellbeing frameworks.
A template for those wanting to co-produce and co-develop projects and partnerships between academia and policy and for planning more strategic academic policy engagement.
Sheena Cruickshank details how her team in Manchester worked with local residents to explore barriers to active travel and develop solutions to encourage the take up of active travel, and reflects on what they learnt about co-produced community engagement.
We share four systems thinking tools that academics at CAPE universities have been using in collaboration with health policy officials to support work on NHS waiting time recovery.
David Frayne, author of The Refusal of Work, discusses how decision makers from a range of political parties at the Welsh Senedd and Westminster as well as the Trade Union Congress Wales received the results of a pilot study on the four day working week.
A report on the value of academic advisers in local and regional authorities based upon our experience of convening the Local and Regional Authority Academic Advisers (LRAAA) network.
