The homes and communities investment evidence collaboration

住宅和社区投资证据合作的目的是将最新和权威的研究嵌入到住房和住房管理局的投资决策中。家庭住房协会成立于2008年，是英格兰的国家住房和再生投资机构。在2011-2015年间，它的总预算为80亿英镑，用于促进经济增长和提供高质量的经济适用房。家庭住房协会与地方当局、住房协会和其他合作伙伴合作，为新的负担得起的住房提供投资，改善现有的社会住房，并重新开发土地。通过其扶持作用，卫生与公众服务部的工作人员向当地合作伙伴提供技能和经验。在其工作的关键时刻，家庭住房协会希望与伦敦经济学院和约克大学住房政策中心的一群主要住房研究人员建立一个目标明确的小型合作伙伴关系。这项建议是由丽贝卡·唐斯托博士与公司战略主管吉姆·贝内特和家庭住房协会战略经理库尔什达·米孜协调制定的。他们在一系列成功的常规研究项目上进行了合作。医院管理局现在希望发展这种关系，以促进学者和主要决策人员之间更深入的知识交流。这些人将包括来自英格兰六个地区的工作人员，以及来自两个合作组织的工作人员：其赞助部门社区和地方政府部门(DCLG)，以及其主要当地合作伙伴的国家代表，地方政府集团(LGG)。这项合作将通过一系列三次密集的、量身定做的讲习班来建立，这些讲习班将为来自卫生和社会理事会、法律和法律事务司和政府间小组的约20名关键决策工作人员举办，其中包括就与会者选定的专题详细和互动地介绍现有的证据基础，并探讨证据对即将作出的决定的影响。讲习班的目的是在协作年期间立即适用。它们还将建设个人和组织能力，并形成一个由实践者和研究人员成员组成的持续不断的自给自足的非正式网络的基础。合作的目的是：-使家庭住房管理局、DCLG和政府部门能够向学术研究人员学习，以加强政府住房和重建优先事项的交付；-弥合学术研究、政策和业务交付与实践之间的差距；-允许研究人员与政策制定者接触，更多地了解他们的研究需求，以及如何使研究对政策应用最有用。这项提议提供了研究潜力，通过相对较小的预算，直接影响家庭住房管理局和合作伙伴在2012年和随后几年在英格兰各地负担得起的住房和重建方面的非常重大和长期的公共投资。HCA认为，目前在将学术研究人员和运营交付合作伙伴聚集在一起以告知和影响交付以及正在进行和未来的研究方面存在差距。

The aim of the homes and communities investment evidence collaboration is to embed up to date and authoritative research in the HCA's investment decision-making. The HCA was established in 2008 as the national housing and regeneration investment agency for England. Over the period 2011-2015 it has a total budget of £8bn to spend to promote economic growth and to deliver high quality affordable housing. The HCA works with local authorities, housing associations and other partners, to provide investment for new affordable housing, to improve existing social housing and to redevelop land. Through its enabling role, HCA staff provide skills and experience to local partners. At a critical time for its work, the HCA would like to form a small, highly targeted partnership with a group of key housing researchers at the London School of Economics and the Centre for Housing Policy (CHP) at the University of York.This proposal has been developed by Dr Rebecca Tunstall (LSE), in co-ordination with Jim Bennett, Head of Corporate Strategy and Kurshida Mirza, Strategy Manager at the HCA. They have worked together on a series of successful conventional research projects. The HCA would now like to develop this relationship to promote more intensive knowledge exchange between academics and key decision-making staff. These will include staff from HCA's six localities across England, and some staff from two of the HCA's partner organisations: its sponsoring department, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), and the national representatives of its key local partners, the Local Government Group (LGG). The collaboration will be established through a series of three intensive, tailored workshops for about 20 key decision-making staff from the HCA, DCLG and LGG, involving detailed and interactive presentation of the current evidence base on topics selected by participants, and exploration of the implications of evidence for forthcoming decisions. The workshops are intended to be immediately applicable during the year of the collaboration. They will also build individual and organisational capacity, and form the basis for what is hoped will be an ongoing self-sustaining informal network of practioners and researcher members. The collaboration aims to:-Enable the HCA, DCLG and the LGG to learn from academic researchers to enhance the delivery of Government's housing and regeneration priorities; -Bridge the gap between academic research, policy and operational delivery and practice;-Allow researchers to engage with policy makers, to learn more about their research needs, and how research can be made most useful for application in policy.This proposal offers the potential for research to influence directly very substantial and long-lasting public investments by the HCA and partners in affordable housing and regeneration across England over 2012 and subsequent years, through a comparatively small budget. The HCA feel there is currently a gap in bringing academic researchers and operational delivery partners together to inform and influence both delivery and ongoing and future research.