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Event title

  • UK Government ARIs as a Research-policy Engagement Channel 

Location

  • Webinar

Date

  • Wednesday 16 October 2024, 1pm to 2pm

Keynote speakers

  • Alex Waddington (ex Policy@Manchester, Founder of Whetstone Communications and Senior Associate at Showrunner Communications)
  • Mark Fuller (Founder and Managing Director at Showrunner Communications)

Event details

Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) now exist for all UK Government departments and some agencies. The UK Government ARI Hub has been welcomed as a way of quickly finding public policy-related research needs, and as a way of identifying potential engagement and impact opportunities.

But some key questions remain:

  • Beyond the slick functionality of a database, is there a blackhole into which carefully crafted emails disappear? Are some live ARI questions actually out of date? 
  • Are internal efforts to promote ARIs bearing fruit? 
  • And are some channels being dominated by the ‘usual suspects’, making it harder for others to cut through the noise? 
  • And might this pose a barrier to utilising ARIs as a channel for relationship-building between policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders?

Attendees at this webinar will gain insights into what steps might be taken to improve the ARI engagement process, and build greater inclusion, awareness and engagement with the UK’s policy-related research needs.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in discussion.

To attend this webinar, click on UK Government ARIs as a Research-policy Engagement Channel to register.

Convened by the Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN).