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Bringing together policy makers and researchers to ensure they have access to the research and expertise needed to make informed and effective policy decisions.
We're using research and knowledge exchange to address global core challenges. We'll use our expertise, networks and approach to effect meaningful change both in the region we call home, at a national scale, and worldwide. This means that we can produce knowledge that changes the world for the better.
To do this, we need a clear and coherent Policy Engagement Strategy. This Strategy will support us in building and maintaining relationships between our researchers and policymakers, to support effective and ongoing public policy engagement. This will help us to enact real world change.
If you're policy maker, business, community organisation or individual interested in working with Leeds Beckett University, email: policy@leedsbeckett.ac.uk.
Policy Engagement is how researchers and academics work to influence, inform and contribute to policy. This happens in a wide variety of forums including Parliamentary Select Committees, All Party Parliamentary Groups and events like Evidence Week in Parliament. This is in addition to formal and informal discussions with Members of Parliament (MPs) and civil servants.
Bringing together policy makers and researchers ensures that they have access to the research and expertise required to make informed and effective policy decisions.
If you’re a public servant who is looking to connect with an expert, learn more about a topic or discuss any of the research coming out of Leeds Beckett University, don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Researchers at Leeds Beckett University possess a wide variety of expertise in dozens of subject areas and are always happy to speak and answer questions.
Find out more about which researchers at Leeds Beckett are active in the Policy Engagement space.
If you're looking for research support in a specific area email: policy@leedsbeckett.ac.uk for advice and recommendations.
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Parliamentary Select Committees are groups of MPs drawn from all parties who meet to discuss policy in a specific area (for example, Transport or the Environment). They choose topics to investigate and frequently put out calls for evidence to inform the recommendations they make to parliament.
Submitting written evidence:
The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) is Parliament’s knowledge exchange and research service. They publish impartial, peer-reviewed research in the form of POSTnotes and briefings, these are read by MPs and policy makers. POST seeks literature and contributions from experts when putting together their POSTnotes.
Policy Briefs are a concise summary of your research, which draw out the key policy implications and make recommendations to policy makers to your research and make clear what needs to be done.
The Policy Engagement Team can help you write briefs and identify MPs and policy makers who would be interested in hearing from you.
Starting research with policy impact in mind will help you maximise the impact of your work, as well as the opportunities available to you. Integrating Policy Engagement into your research may help you access funding and support you in evidencing the societal impact of your research.
Government departments regularly offer funding for research with policy relevance. Aligning your research with relevant Government departments’ ARIs can open up these funding opportunities to researchers.
Local and City councils also publish ARIs, including Leeds City Council (LCC). Aligning your research with LCCs ARIs will contribute to Leeds Becketts’ longstanding relationship with our home city and support our role as an Anchor Institution.
The Policy Engagement Team is happy to discuss the government’s and local councils’ areas of research interests (ARIs) with you, as well as their priorities and where your research might fit.
As part of our work to build relationships between regional and national policymakers and Leeds Beckett researchers, we are regularly exploring opportunities for collaboration on research projects that are working to inform policy challenges.
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