The Art of the Possible: Catalysts, Collaborations and Capabilities in Academic-Policy Engagement
Our final report: what we’ve learnt about academic-policy engagement
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Awarding funding for collaborative academic-policy projects
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.
Read MoreWhy collaboration is critical in academic-policy engagement
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.
Read MoreCo-creating “personas” to illuminate academic-policy engagement practice inside universities
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.
Read MoreImproving outcomes for children who have experienced adversity through including their voices in policy engagement
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.
Read MoreToward wellbeing-based government: formalising a ‘Roundtable’ methodology
Case study from CAPE partner Northumbria who worked with Carnegie UK to develop a guide on roundtable approaches to building effective societal wellbeing frameworks.
Read MoreExploring barriers and developing solutions to encourage active travel in Ardwick, Greater Manchester
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.
Read MoreApplying systems thinking to health care policy
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.
Read MoreAnalysing and reporting on police custody record data to support Ministry of Justice decision-making
Vicky Kemp and her research team at the University of Nottingham reflect on how they used their extensive electronic police custody records dataset in a collaboration with the Ministry of Justice.
Read MoreEmbedding health in local urban design guides and codes
Caglar Koksal explores how his CAPE project with Manchester City Council (MCC) has informed the development of the emerging policy around Manchester’s own Local Urban Design Guides and Codes.
Read MoreInsights into the co-production process in understanding the role of modular homes in addressing homelessness
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.
Read MoreAnthropology By Children (ABC) and Islington Council: a CAPE fellowship collaboration case study
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.
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