Thematic Research Leads: Climate/Environment; International Affairs/Defence; Parliament, Public Administration and Constitution | 1 August 2022 Some very exciting news from Parliament – the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), POST and Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange Unit have launched new (paid!) roles for researchers keen to be involved in policy. The new Thematic Research Leads (TRLs) are… Read more »
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This part of the blog features news and information about higher education policy and how BU’s research is influencing policy.
Reminder: Workshop on including impact in grant applications
Impact and Funding Applications Training: Thursday 30 June 2pm-3pm Online How to write about impact in your funding bids Writing about impact in a grant application can be challenging. However, a strong description of the benefits you hope your project will have on society and the economy, and the means you will take to get… Read more »
Project Management Knowledge Exchange Opportunity
Project management and project delivery experts – take part in knowledge exchange within Parliament The UK Parliament Project Delivery Community of Practice (CoP) is currently seeking experts in the following topic/s to share knowledge, expertise, insights and tools for their project delivery professionals. They hope that to find experts as soon as possible as the… Read more »
Independent review of children’s social care: the Government’s plans
The Minister for Children and Families, Will Quince, delivered an oral statement to the Commons earlier regarding the publication of the independent review of children’s social care, outlining the Government’s initial and long-term plans. Please see below for a summary of the key exchanges. Summary provided by Dods. Will Quince, Minister for Children and Families: Said… Read more »
HE policy update for the w/e 20th May 2022
We’ve tried to keep it short this week. But the politics is still sticky on a number of issues and the culture wars are not over… Research REF results: you’ve probably read everything you want to, but here is a blog from Dave Radcliffe of the University if Birmingham on QR funding: QR allocations could… Read more »
Policy Influencing training sessions
Time is often a barrier stopping colleagues from using their research to influence policy. These training sessions are designed with the ‘doing’ built into the training day. Each programme will help you move onto the next step and produce some of the key materials to influence policy with your research. So when you get back… Read more »
Developing Instrumental Impact: UK House of Commons
Prof John Oliver’s scenario planning project with UK Parliament last year was recently further supported with a branding workshop with strategic planners, marketing communications and customer service staff at the House of Commons. The half-day workshop explored ‘brand essence and identity’ and the outcome of this activity will now be used to develop a new… Read more »
BU Research Conference: Building Impact – conference schedule
The first annual BU research conference will take place on Tuesday 7 June. This year’s theme is building impact, celebrating our REF 2021 submission and exploring practical ways to create impact and share your research. Our keynote speaker will be Professor Simon Hettrick from the University of Southampton. He is Chair of the Hidden REF,… Read more »
HE policy update w/e 3rd May 2022
Parliament was prorogued on Thursday 28 April. The State Opening of Parliament will take place on 10 May and the Queen’s Speech will set the agenda for the forthcoming Parliament. Research Tech transfer: The Government has announced that Dr Alison Campbell OBE has been hired as CEO of the new Government Office for Tech Transfer which will support the… Read more »
Upcoming Research Impact Workshops
We have several RKEDF impact-related workshops coming up over the next couple of months; please use the links below to book onto them via OD: Getting started with research impact: what is it? 12 May, 2pm (repeated on 16th September, 10am) Evidencing Impact 14 June, 2pm (repeated on 12 October, 2pm) Impact and Funding Applications… Read more »
HE policy update for the w/e 4th April 2022
A slightly quieter time with the House of Commons on recess. Before they went on recess, the Skills Bill finally made it over the line. If you are wondering why we are focussing on school level education at the moment, the first item here will explain why, as the OfS provides more insight into its… Read more »
The new UKRI Open Access Policy
As of 1st April 2022, the new UKRI Open Access Policy became effective. This policy applies to publications which need to acknowledge funding from UKRI or any of its councils. This includes funding from: the research councils Research England Innovate UK. The policy applies to the following types of publication, when they are required to… Read more »
HE policy update for the w/e 4th April 2022
The Government has announced the current Parliamentary session will be prorogued in April (date not confirmed yet) (you’ll remember that process from “that” prorogation). A new session will commence with a State Opening of Parliament and the Queen’s Speech on Tuesday 10 May. This means that legislation that is currently incomplete will either be dropped… Read more »
HE policy update for the w/e 18th March 2022
A wide ranging update for you this week! Parliamentary News Chancellor Rishi Sunak is due to deliver his spring statement. Wonkhe predict: tough times are coming for a sector that almost certainly won’t feature in any list of political priorities. For students, thanks to the way these things have been historically calculated, inflation-linked rises to… Read more »
He policy update for the w/e 10th March 2022
A bit of a catch up on a range of issues this week after an education focus in our last couple of updates. Ukraine – UK HE’s approach Wonkhe readers will already have seen their round up relating to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Here it is for those who haven’t caught it yet: Ukraine’s… Read more »
HE policy update for the w/e 3rd March 2022
The response to Augar – finally After so many delays that it seemed to have been passed by completely, we finally got the response to the Augar review and the outcome of the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding. You will recall that the Post-18 review was opened in February 2018 by Theresa May, and… Read more »
HE policy update for the w/e 17th February 2022
As it is Parliamentary recess, we thought we would do a general policy round up this week Fees, funding and finance We’ve updated our separate paper on fees, funding and finance for BU readers while we wait for the final response to the Augar review. Research and knowledge exchange Post-Brexit there is still a great… Read more »
Upcoming Research Impact Workshops – book now!
We have five RKEDF Impact-related workshops coming up over the next month; please use the links below to book onto them via OD: Impact and Funding Applications: 16th February at 15:00 Influencing Policy – with Professor Mark Reed: 1st March at 13:00 Getting started with research Impact: what is it?: 8th March at 14:00 Inspirational… Read more »
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