ARI Policy Engagement Fellow

政府各部门编制了简短的文件，总结其研究重点，称为研究兴趣领域（阿里斯）。这使研究人员能够更好地了解政府需要知道什么。通过这项政策参与奖学金，我将与政策和研究专家互动，以帮助政府充分利用这些阿里斯。这将涉及与一名研究参与研究员以及研究和政策专家密切合作，为处理这些优先事项的未来工作方案提出建议。要做到这一点，我们将利用我们的社会科学专业知识的生产和使用的政策证据，特别是在有效的促进和合作。我们的工作包括几个阶段：1.优先次序：作为政策参与研究员，我将领导与部门首席科学顾问，分析主任和政策专业负责人的工作，探讨阿里斯是如何产生的，由谁;学术参与的程度;以及进一步完善的潜力。根据对阿里斯的内容和主题的分析，我们将举行会议，以确定一系列主要阿里斯的优先次序，并研究如何使它们对不同的持份者有用。我们将包括交叉的阿里斯，以及那些专注于部门优先事项的，选择以不同方式开发的阿里斯。这将帮助我们了解跨政府协作的潜力，以及阿里斯发挥作用的不同方式。确定相关专业知识：我将在政策领导和部门、政府分析团队和机构中确定与这些阿里斯相关的专业知识。研究参与研究员将在外部中心（如What Works Centres），跨学科边界（包括但不限于社会科学）找到相关的研究专业知识。通过共同设计的过程连接和完善阿里斯：我们将把这些专家聚集在一系列的6个研讨会，旨在从最初的阿里斯，更具体的研究问题。我们将为研究人员，资助者和政府共同制定建议，这可能会影响未来的资金呼吁，政策或证据简报，或导致具体的研究合作。这些研讨会可能具有挑战性，因为参与者将有不同的优先事项和做法。我们将利用我们作为支持和积极主动的领导者的经验，通过经过考验的促进方法克服这些困难。4.制定关于发展研究政策参与能力的指导：我将领导两次圆桌会议，以最大限度地从这些奖学金中学习：（1）与GO-Science和利益相关者合作，优化政府内部阿里斯的发展和优先顺序，为未来阿里斯的发展提供信息，（2）与研究资助者和研究利益相关者合作，支持有效和道德的研究政策参与，展示我们的工作，并讨论研究资助社区和学术界如何应对阿里斯出现的主题。在奖学金的各个阶段，我们希望了解什么类型的基础设施，倡议和投资最能支持有效和道德的政策-学术参与。我们将能够评估合作的有效性，学习如何有效地支持政府，以及更广泛地使用证据的过程。我们将通过与我们的咨询小组定期讨论，定期记录我们的思考，并在可能的情况下采用正式的研究方法来获取这些知识。这将是非常有用的英国政府，ESRC和UKRI（并可能为其他政府，如美国）谁想要知道如何最大限度地提高研究投资的价值（UKRI，2019）。我们将与ESRC和GO-Science合作，寻找与更广泛的政策，资金和研究社区分享这一学习的方法。

Government Departments have produced short documents summarising their research priorities called Areas of Research Interest (ARIs). This allows researchers to better understand what Government needs to know. Through this Policy Engagement Fellowship I will interact with both policy and research experts to help the Government make the most of these ARIs. This will involve working closely with a Research Engagement Fellow, and with research and policy experts to develop recommendations for future programmes of work to address these priorities. To do this, we will draw on our social science expertise about the production and use of evidence for policy, especially on effective facilitation and collaboration. Our work involves a number of stages:1. Prioritisation: As the Policy Engagement Fellow, I will lead work with the Departmental chief scientific advisers, directors of analysis and heads of the Policy Profession to explore how the ARIs were produced and by whom; the extent of academic involvement; and the potential for further refinement. Drawing on analysis on the content and themes of the ARIs, we will hold meeting(s) to prioritise a set of key ARIs and work out what makes them useful to different stakeholders. We will include cross-cutting ARIs, and those focusing on Departmental priorities, choosing ARIs developed in different ways. This will help us learn about the potential for collaborative working across government, and the different ways ARIs can be made useful.2. Identifying relevant expertise: I will identify expertise relevant to these ARIs across policy leads and Departments, Government analytics teams and agencies. The Research Engagement Fellow will locate relevant research expertise across external centres such as the as What Works Centres, across disciplinary boundaries including (but not limited to) the social sciences.3. Connecting and refining ARIs through a process of co-design: We will bring together these experts in a series of 6 workshops designed to move from the initial ARIs, to more specific research questions. We will develop recommendations for researchers, funders and government together, which may shape future funding calls, policy or evidence briefs, or lead to specific research collaborations. These workshops may be challenging as participants will have different priorities and practices. We will overcome these with tested facilitation approaches, using our experience as supportive and proactive leaders. 4. Producing guidance on developing capability for research-policy engagement: I will lead two roundtable events to maximise learning from these Fellowships: (1) With GO-Science and stakeholders, on Optimising the development and prioritisation of ARIs within government, to inform the development of ARIs in the future, and (2) with research funders, and research stakeholders on Supporting Effective and Ethical Research-Policy Engagement, to showcase our work and discuss how the research funding community and academy can respond to themes emerging from ARIs.Throughout all stages of the Fellowship, we want learn about what types of infrastructures, initiatives and investments best support effective and ethical policy-academic engagement. We will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of collaboration, learn how to support government effectively, and about the process of evidence use more broadly. We will capture this learning through regular discussions with our advisory group, keeping regular notes on our reflections, and where possible formal research methods. This will be very useful for the UK Government, ESRC and UKRI (and potentially for other governments, e.g. US) who want to know how to maximise the value of research investments (UKRI, 2019). We will work with ESRC and GO-Science to find ways to share this learning with the wider policy, funding and research communities.