UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE)

住房证据合作中心（CaCHE）将是一个独立的，多学科和多部门的学术和非学术利益相关者的联盟。CaCHE将覆盖整个英国（覆盖所有四个国家，并在不同的空间尺度内），以及英国一级的重点。它将促进知识和改善英国各地住房政策和实践的证据基础。CaCHE将组织成一个“中心辐射”网络，其行政核心在格拉斯哥，并在苏格兰、北方爱尔兰、威尔士和西南部、北部和中部以及伦敦、东部和东南部的所有5个次国家知识交流中心设有实体。此外，我们的六个研究主题将根据相关性和适当性交叉切割不同的地理区域。管理团队将负责整体战略、运营交付、协调、数据导航、研究和KE。由三名学者（吉布、沃特金斯和奥福德）组成的管理团队将由一名知识交流和沟通方面的高级非学术领导（Smart），加上一名全职项目经理、KE和沟通、行政和技术支持人员补充。证据中心及其管理团队将对一个资助者小组和一个国际咨询委员会负责。主要的联盟成员是格拉斯哥大学、谢菲尔德大学、布里斯托大学、卡迪夫大学、阿尔斯特大学、阅读大学、谢菲尔德哈勒姆大学、圣安德鲁斯大学和赫瑞瓦特大学，沿着国家社会和经济研究所、CIH、RICS和RTPI。该联盟在区域和国家一级有一份很长的机构和个人合作者名单，我们的活动将得到其他合作伙伴的“实物”和直接捐助，包括危机、惠特利集团、NatCen、庇护所、Rightmove等。我们的财团还制定了具体的项目计划，其中包括四个互补的ESRC投资：城市大数据中心、What Works Scotland、威尔士公共政策研究所和ADRC-Scotland，并将寻求与What Works Centre for Wellbeing等其他机构合作。最初，CaCHE将寻求在此期间实现自筹资金。它将通过与合作伙伴定期扫描机会来实现这一目标，并通过严格的证据组合来发挥影响力和影响力，优先考虑六个研究主题，这反过来又将产生一个新的主要研究议程，由证据中心起诉。保持相关性和可信度的一个关键方法是通过我们与非学术利益相关者的知识交流和合作的全面性和持久性。我们将反复利用创新的合作工作实践-托宾项目流程-通过对非学术合作伙伴和我们的利益相关者在全国和每个地区的关键问题和优先事项进行严格和深入的审查，以建立共识。通过这种方式，我们将共同制定我们的证据审查和研究战略优先事项，并将通过我们的网络网络（即通过我们的非学术和学术合作伙伴利用现有的联系网络）与学术团体，特别是非学术团体充分参与，动员和传播研究结果。CaCHE将促进和支持跨学科和多学科的工作，并投资于员工的知识交流培训，以最大限度地发挥我们多种传播渠道的影响：非技术简报，摘要，学术和贸易出版物，有针对性的技术报告，高标准的非技术性国际证据审查，博客文章，推文，音频和视频播客，路演，研讨会，会议，研讨会和媒体贡献。证据中心将支持一项广泛的工作人员借调方案，促进学院与政策和实践社区之间的流动。

The Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) will be an independent, multi-disciplinary and multi-sector consortium of academic and non-academic stakeholders. CaCHE will be UK-wide in coverage (across all four nations and at different spatial scales within), as well as UK-level in focus. It will advance knowledge and improve the evidence base for both housing policy and practice in all parts of the U.K.CaCHE will be organised as a "hub and spoke" network with its administrative core in Glasgow and a physical presence in all 5 sub-national knowledge exchange hubs in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales & the South West, the North & Midlands, and London, East & South East. Additionally, our six research themes will cross cut the different geographies depending on relevancy and appropriateness. The management team will be responsible for overall strategy, operational delivery, co-ordination, data navigation, research and KE. The management team of three academics (Gibb, Watkins and Orford) will be supplemented by a senior non-academic lead on knowledge exchange and communications (Smart), plus a full time programme manager, KE and communications, administrative and technical support staff. The evidence centre and its management team will be accountable to a funders group and an international advisory board.The main consortium members are the Universities of Glasgow, Sheffield, Bristol, Cardiff, Ulster, Reading, Sheffield Hallam, St. Andrews and Heriot-Watt, along with the National Institute of Social and Economic Research, CIH, RICS and the RTPI. The consortium has a lengthy list of institutional and individual collaborators at regional and national level and our activity will be supported 'in kind' and direct contributions from additional partners including Crisis, the Wheatley Group, NatCen, Shelter, Rightmove and several more. Our consortium also has specific project plans with four complementary ESRC investments: Urban Big Data Centre, What Works Scotland, Public Policy Institute for Wales, and the ADRC-Scotland, and will seek to collaborate with others including the What Works Centre for Wellbeing.Initially, a five year programme, CaCHE will seek to become self-financing sustained beyond this period. It will do so by regular scanning of opportunities with partners, and by also being impactful and influential through a combination of rigorous evidencing, prioritised across six research themes, which in turn will generate a new primary research agenda to be prosecuted by the evidence centre. A key way in which relevance and credibility will be sustained is through the comprehensive nature and persistence of our knowledge exchange and collaborative working with non-academic stakeholders. We will repeatedly utilise an innovative collaborative working practice - the Tobin Project Process - in order to build a consensus through rigorous and intensive examination of the key questions and priorities exercising non-academic partners and our stakeholders nationally and in each region. In this way, we will co-produce our evidence review and research strategy priorities and will fully engage, mobilise and disseminate findings with academic and particularly non-academic groups through our network of networks (i.e. drawing on existing networks of contacts via our non-academic and academic partners). CaCHE will promote and support interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work and invest in knowledge exchange training for staff to maximise the impact of our multiple dissemination channels: non-technical briefing, summaries, academic and trade publications, targeted technical reports, high standard non technical international evidence review, blog posts, tweets, audio and visual pod casts, roadshows, seminars, conferences, workshops and media contributions. The evidence centre will support an extensive programme of staff secondments, promoting mobility between the academy and the policy and practice communi