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Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST)

安全威胁研究和证据中心 (CREST)

基本信息

批准号：
ES/V002775/1
负责人：
Stacey Conchie
金额：
$ 756.79万
依托单位：
Lancaster University
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2020 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FV002775%2F1
关键词：
Centre Research Evidence Security Threats

项目摘要

In his recent CaSE speech, the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser reported that 63% of the government's challenges have solutions rooted in the behavioural and social sciences. In the area of national security, it is the mission of the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats (CREST) to undertake pioneering research and translational activities that deliver such solutions. To date, our network of 140 researchers from 35 UK and international HEI/SMEs has contributed significant instrumental, conceptual and capacity-building impact for end-users (Independent Review, 2019). These contributions include providing insights into the social and ideological drivers of far-right extremism, developing tools for making inferences about risk from online data, and validating new methods for effective, ethical information elicitation.Our 2020-2023 plan for CREST builds on this foundation but uses a renewed structure to foster agile, solution-focused activities. Our approach will deliver: (1) research that is tightly bound to the challenges of our funders while remaining world-leading in its contribution to the academy; (2) a step-change in our support for funders' evolving needs and their efforts to translate research into practice; (3) new forms of researcher-stakeholder co-working that promote knowledge exchange, research relevance, and professional development on both sides; and, (4) an engaged, collaborative international community of social scientists contributing to national security.The renewed Centre, whose 24 researchers and 7 PhDs will work with 9 administrative, communication, and research-to-practice professionals, will pursue three Agendas:The RESEARCH AGENDA will produce theoretically motivated, high-quality synthetic and original research on key aspects of the funders' challenges. It will comprise eight projects that are solution focused, diverse in disciplinary and methodological approach, and subject to the Centre's ethical and open science standards. In doing so, it seeks both to nurture exploration and new ideas, and to take mature concepts through to field validation. This Agenda includes mechanisms for DIRECT TASKING, whereby funders will be able to draw on the expertise of the CREST network, securing rapid and timely responses to specific needs. This includes having researchers undertake evaluative and comparative work within the funder, which we view as facilitating impact and capacity building. To respond to emerging challenges, £900k of CREST's funds will support short-term RESEARCH COMMISSIONING. Funds will be allocated via our established transparent and competitive process that delivers scientific excellence, stakeholder relevance, and value for money.Combining our existing communication and network activities, the KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AGENDA will continue to innovate to ensure that research is communicated effectively across academia, our funders, government and industry, and the public. We will disseminate our findings to the academic community in peer reviewed publications, conference presentations, technical reports, and Open Science materials. We will engage users by focusing our production on fewer, high quality outputs, and by curating the existing CREST knowledge base to maximise its accessibility to time-poor user communities (e.g. via training frameworks).The CAPACITY-BUILDING AGENDA will grow CREST's vibrant international network through a variety of events, from our biennial 150 attendee conference, to small-scale, challenge-focused residential 'sprints'. We will make a particular effort to reach underrepresented disciplines in order to foster new researcher-stakeholder exchanges, introduce new perspectives, and stimulate synergies across cognate centres and government departments. This Agenda will also train a cohort of seven PhD students, and continue our efforts to provide training and resources for the wider ECR community.

在最近的CaSE演讲中，英国政府首席科学顾问报告说，政府63%的挑战都有植根于行为和社会科学的解决方案。在国家安全领域，安全威胁研究和证据中心的使命是开展开创性的研究和翻译活动，提供这种解决方案。到目前为止，我们的140名研究人员来自35个英国和国际高等教育机构/中小企业的网络为最终用户贡献了重要的工具，概念和能力建设影响（独立评论，2019）。这些贡献包括深入了解极右极端主义的社会和意识形态驱动因素，开发从在线数据中推断风险的工具，以及验证有效、道德信息获取的新方法。我们的2020-2023年CREST计划建立在此基础上，但使用更新的结构来促进敏捷、以解决方案为重点的活动。我们的方法将提供：（1）研究与我们资助者的挑战紧密相连，同时保持对学院贡献的世界领先地位;（2）我们对资助者不断变化的需求及其将研究转化为实践的努力的支持发生了重大变化;（3）研究人员-利益相关者合作的新形式，促进双方的知识交流，研究相关性和专业发展;更新后的中心，其24名研究人员和7名博士将与9名行政，通信和研究实践专业人员一起工作，将追求三个目标：研究议程将产生理论驱动的，高质量的合成和原创性研究。它将包括八个项目，这些项目以解决方案为重点，采用不同的学科和方法，并符合中心的伦理和开放科学标准。在这样做的过程中，它寻求既培养探索和新的想法，并采取成熟的概念，通过现场验证。该议程包括直接任务机制，供资者将能够利用CREST网络的专门知识，确保对具体需求作出快速和及时的反应。这包括让研究人员在资助者内部进行评估和比较工作，我们认为这有助于影响和能力建设。为了应对新出现的挑战，CREST的90万英镑资金将支持短期研究委托。资金将通过我们建立的透明和竞争性的流程进行分配，该流程提供科学卓越性，利益相关者相关性和资金价值。结合我们现有的沟通和网络活动，知识交流议程将继续创新，以确保研究在学术界，我们的资助者，政府和行业以及公众之间进行有效沟通。我们将通过同行评审的出版物、会议报告、技术报告和开放科学材料向学术界传播我们的研究结果。我们将通过专注于更少的高质量产品来吸引用户，并通过管理现有的CREST知识库来最大限度地提高其对时间紧迫的用户社区的可访问性（例如通过培训框架）。能力建设议程将通过各种活动来发展CREST充满活力的国际网络，从我们两年一度的150名与会者会议到小规模的以挑战为重点的住宅“冲刺”。我们将特别努力接触代表性不足的学科，以促进新的研究人员与利益相关者的交流，引入新的视角，并激发同源中心和政府部门之间的协同作用。该议程还将培训7名博士生，并继续努力为更广泛的ECR社区提供培训和资源。