Hidden Talents: Core Competencies of Knowledge Mobilisers Working in Public Policy
A report on the skills of staff who work in roles supporting knowledge transfer between research and public policy.
Read MoreTheme: Understanding academic policy engagement
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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.
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 MoreDeveloping partnerships & projects between universities and policy partners: a project scope template
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.
Read MoreCAPEcast episode 10: Reflections and futures in regional academic-policy engagement
Dr Richard Whittle joins Sarah Chaytor to discuss future plans for the Yorkshire Policy Engagement and Research Network.
Read MoreCAPEcast episode 9: A Collaborative Approach To Informing Policy On Modern Slavery
Alex Trautrims joins the CAPE Team at Nottingham to discuss the creation of a single enforcement body for labour market regulation.
Read MoreEvidence: from engagement to impact
Ben Hepworth explores what ‘impact’ means inside and outside government and good practical advice on how to achieve it.
Read MoreCAPEcast episode 8: Informing or influencing
Roshnee Patel joins Sarah Chaytor to discuss the different roles that academics can play when engaging with policy.
Read MoreInterconnecting islands: evolving the research-policy ecosystem
Why we need more join up to establish a culture of working together in academic policy engagement.
Read MorePerceptions and Experiences of Academic Policy Engagement in UK Higher Education Institutions
A report exploring on the ground experiences of academics and professional services staff undertaking academic policy engagement in universities.
Read MoreA typology and discussion of interactions between CAPE academic policy engagement mechanisms
We discuss how multiple methods of academic policy engagement can mutually reinforce each other, leading to greater volume and depth of engagement.
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