ARI Research Engagement Fellow

政府部门制作了简短的文件，总结了他们的研究重点，称为研究兴趣领域（ARIs）。这使研究人员能够更好地了解政府需要知道什么。通过这项研究参与奖学金，我将与政策和研究专家互动，帮助政府充分利用这些ARIs。这将涉及与政策参与研究员（Kathryn Oliver）以及研究和政策专家密切合作，为未来的工作计划提出建议，以解决这些优先事项。为此，我们将利用我们在制定和使用政策证据方面的社会科学专业知识，特别是在有效促进和合作方面。我们的工作包括几个阶段：优先次序：作为研究参与研究员，我将协助政策参与研究员与部门首席科学顾问、分析主任和政策专业负责人合作，探讨评估报告是如何编制的以及由谁编制的；学术参与程度；以及进一步改进的潜力。我们会在分析各项准则的内容和主题后，举行会议，确定一套主要准则的优先次序，并研究这些准则对不同持份者的用处。我们将包括跨领域的自动化系统，以及专注于部门优先事项的自动化系统，并选择以不同方式发展的自动化系统。这将帮助我们了解跨政府协作工作的潜力，以及使人工智能系统发挥作用的不同方式。确定相关专业知识：我将在外部中心（如What Works中心）找到相关的研究专业知识，跨越学科界限，包括（但不限于）社会科学。3. 通过共同设计过程连接和完善ARIs：我们将在一系列6个研讨会中汇集这些专家，旨在从最初的ARIs转向更具体的研究问题。我们将共同为研究人员、资助者和政府提出建议，这些建议可能会影响未来的资助呼吁、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级和实践。我们将利用我们作为支持和积极的领导者的经验，通过经过测试的促进方法克服这些问题。4. 为研究政策参与能力的发展提供指导：我将在两个圆桌会议中发挥积极作用，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ARIs的发展和优先顺序，为未来ARIs的发展提供信息；(2)与研究资助者和研究利益相关者合作，支持有效和合乎道德的研究政策参与，展示我们的工作，并讨论研究资助者和学术界如何应对ARIs出现的主题。在奖学金的所有阶段，我们希望了解哪种类型的基础设施、倡议和投资最能支持有效和合乎道德的政策-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，并了解更广泛地使用证据的过程。我们将通过与咨询小组的定期讨论，定期记录我们的思考，并在可能的情况下使用正式的研究方法来获取这些知识。这对于想要知道如何最大化研究投资价值的英国政府、ESRC和UKRI（以及潜在的其他政府，例如美国）非常有用（UKRI, 2019）。我们将与ESRC和GO-Science合作，寻找与更广泛的政策、资助和研究团体分享这一学习成果的方法。

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 Research 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 Policy Engagement Fellow (Kathryn Oliver), 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 Research Engagement Fellow, I will support the work of the Policy Engagement fellow in her 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 a meeting 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 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 play an active role in 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.