Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre

认识到关键政策领域的数据越来越多，PEC将在四个高级别优先主题领域中的每一个领域引入英国范围内的“国情”报告，这四个领域由组成研究联盟的四个组织领导：1。研发、创新和集群（苏塞克斯大学）; 2.创新教育、技能、人才（工作推进）; 3.国际化（纽卡斯尔大学），和4。艺术、文化和遗产部门（谢菲尔德大学）。这些报告将与业界和政策制定者协商确定，利用登记册系统管理人的活动能力，每半年定期发布一次，并提前安排，以便利计划的参与活动。我们设想这些报告将包括关于官方和其他公开的经济和相关社会指标的系统的表格和图表部分，并深入探讨需要更多分析的热门问题。定期报告的四个主题优先领域部分是由于需要避免与联合王国现有英才中心所涵盖的工作重复，例如专门研究知识产权、监管和竞争问题的格拉斯哥大学CREATe研究中心，以及已经可以定期报告的公共部门广播等领域，例如通过Ofcom的媒体和通信报告。然而，PEC仍将在证据基础存在重大差距的领域进行初步研究。除了利用官方和公开的数据来源外，国家状况报告还将从PEC建议开发的新旗舰纵向商业小组中提取见解。这将涉及从一组设在英国的创意产业公司和选定的比较部门的公司收集调查数据。除了在国情报告中进行深入的分析外，我们还打算让PEC为证据库做出重要的原创研究贡献，包括从英国和海外学术和私营部门机构招募的PEC研究员的大型多学科网络。将鼓励研究员竞标（共同）委托研究的有针对性的呼吁。除了了解PEC的研究要求，成为PEC研究员的好处将包括：专业认可和知名度;接触其他PEC研究员;塑造PEC主题优先事项的机会;参与决策者参与活动的机会;同行审查PEC工作的机会，以及邀请参加PEC研讨会和会议。我们还将资助数量有限、有时间限制的“小型网络”赠款，重点是将PEC研究人员聚集在一起，探讨特定的政策相关研究领域，促进合作和知识共享。PEC的网站也将成为PEC以外开展的优秀政策相关研究的平台。这将采取博客，播客和讨论文件的形式。我们还将利用我们的虚拟和面对面的活动，使政策制定者注意到英国及其他地区更广泛的学术文献的重要贡献。创意产业PEC与其他以政策为重点的研究中心的区别在于我们对知识交流的嵌入式方法。也就是说，我们尽可能将PEC研究人员和我们的政策股人员嵌入我们主要利益相关者的政策规划，设计和交付过程中。这种嵌入性将继续成为我们工作的一个决定性特征：它将提供机会，帮助更多的研究人员提高政策素养，并支持政策制定者更善于使用数据和研究证据。

In recognition of the growing availability of data in key areas of policy, the PEC will introduce set piece UK-wide 'State of the Nation' reporting in each of four high-level priority thematic areas led by the four organisations that will make up the research consortium: 1. R&D, Innovation and Clusters (Sussex University); 2. Creative Education, Skills, Talent (Work Advance); 3. Internationalisation (Newcastle University), and 4. the Arts, Cultural & Heritage sectors (University of Sheffield) respectively. These reports will be specified in consultation with industry and policymakers, launched at regular biannual frequencies drawing on the RSA's events capacity and scheduled well in advance to facilitate planned engagement activities. We envisage the reports to include systematic tabular and chart-based sections on official and other publicly available economic and relevant social indicators as well as deep dives on issues of topical interest where more analysis is needed. The four thematic priority areas for regular reporting are partly informed by the need to avoid duplication of work covered within existing UK centres of excellence, such as the CREATe research centre at Glasgow University which specialises in intellectual property, regulation and competition issues, and areas like public sector broadcasting (PSB) where regular reporting is already available, such as through the media and communications reports from Ofcom. However, the PEC will still conduct primary research in such areas where important gaps in the evidence base are identified.As well as drawing on official and open data sources, the State of the Nation reports will extract insights from a new flagship longitudinal business panel that the PEC proposes to develop. This will involve collecting survey data from a panel of UK-based creative industries firms and firms in selected comparator sectors. In addition to the analytical deep dives in the State of the Nation reports, we intend that the PEC will make important original research contributions to the evidence base including from a large, multi-disciplinary network of PEC Research Fellows recruited from UK and overseas academic and private sector institutions. Fellows will be encouraged to bid for targeted calls for (co-)commissioned research. As well as being made aware of PEC research calls, the benefits of being a PEC Research Fellow will include: professional recognition and visibility; access to other PEC Research Fellows; the chance to shape the PEC's thematic priorities; opportunities to participate in policymaker engagement activities; opportunities to peer review PEC work, and invitations to present at PEC seminars and conferences. We will also fund a limited number of time-limited 'Small Networks' grants, focused on bringing together a group of PEC Research Fellows to interrogate a particular policy-relevant research area, promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing.The PEC's website will also serve as a platform for excellent policy-relevant research undertaken outside of the PEC. This will take the form of blogs, podcasts and Discussion Papers. We will also use our virtual and in-person events to bring to policymakers' attention important contributions from the wider academic literature in the UK and beyond. What differentiates the Creative Industries PEC from other policy-focused research centres is our embedded approach to knowledge exchange. That is, we embed PEC researchers and our Policy Unit personnel as much as possible in the policy planning, design and delivery processes of our key stakeholders. This embeddedness will continue to be a defining feature of our work: it will unlock the opportunity to help more researchers become more policy-literate, and to support policymakers to become more adept at using data and research evidence.