Wales Centre for Public Policy

威尔士正在努力应对复杂而长期的政策挑战，包括如何满足人口老龄化的需求，减少贫困，提高生产力，同时向净零碳经济过渡，以及应对英国脱欧和Covid-19大流行的影响。威尔士公共政策中心（WCPP）使政策制定者和公共服务部门能够获得和应用高质量的独立研究证据和专业知识，帮助改善国家和地方对这些挑战和其他挑战的反应。WCPP已经取得了重大成功。我们对一系列政策决定产生了明显的影响，我们独特的、以需求为导向的方法吸引了越来越多的国内和国际认可。我们的提案回应了ESRC和威尔士政府的邀请，制定了在未来五年内维持和建立这一成功的计划。我们将继续开展三个不同但相互关联的工作方案。我们为威尔士政府所做的工作将确保部长们的建议、决定和政策方向都是基于严格的证据。我们将把政策官员与学术专家联系起来，并通过研究寻找加强政策制定的机会。我们将支持威尔士政府研究能力的发展。此外，通过我们的研究学徒计划、博士实习以及为我们的团队提供的支持、指导和职业发展，我们将帮助建立一支新的研究骨干，他们具备开展和动员政策相关研究所需的技能。我们将向公共服务局（psb）、地方政府和其他公共服务机构提供严格的独立证据，证明哪些措施能够改善长期的文化、经济、环境和社会福祉。我们将与资助者、公共服务机构和公共服务机构合作，进行系统的证据需求分析，共同设计一个活动方案，帮助支持公共服务机构福祉计划的实施，建设地方能力和使用证据的能力，并促进评估实施和影响的评估方法。我们在证据使用方面的研究将借鉴并有助于前沿学术文献，并为我们的工作方式提供信息和改进。它将通过分析我们和其他人在动员证据方面的经验，促进对证据使用的理解，并将系统地评估我们的工作对部长和公共服务部门的影响和增值。WCPP的多学科团队汇集了在学术界、国家和地方政府、志愿部门、智库和咨询机构工作的独特经验。这使我们能够在学术界和政策制定界之间发挥有效的桥梁作用。这也意味着我们能够与来自不同学科的同事一起工作。我们建立的项目管理流程将确保外部专家的有效管理，我们的工作将根据威尔士独特的政策议程（包括福祉目标和工作方式）进行定制，并认识到威尔士语的重要性。通过与外部专家合作，利用他们现有的研究成果，我们将对部长和公共服务部门确定的紧急证据需求作出快速反应。除此之外，我们将重点关注少数核心主题，这些主题是ESRC，威尔士政府和psb的优先事项，我们有能力提供有价值的证据。这种重点突出的方法将使我们能够建立一个持续的工作体系，并发展专业知识和网络。我们将与国家和地方决策者密切合作，共同设计项目，帮助他们了解在其特定的政治和政策背景下，什么是有效的。通过我们与What Works中心和其他战略网络的合作，我们将确保威尔士继续从其他证据提供者的工作中受益。

Wales is grappling with complex and long-standing policy challenges including how to meet the needs of an ageing population, reduce poverty, and increase productivity whilst transitioning to a Net-Zero Carbon economy and dealing with the fall-out from Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic.The Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP) enables policy makers and public services to access and apply high-quality independent research evidence and expertise that helps to improve national and local responses to these and other challenges.The WCPP has already achieved significant success. We have had a demonstrable impact on a range of policy decisions and our unique, demand-led approach has attracted growing national and international recognition. Our proposal responds to an invitation from the ESRC and Welsh Government to set out plans to sustain and build on this success over the next five years.We will continue to conduct three distinct but inter-related programmes of work. Our work for the Welsh Government will ensure that ministerial advice, decisions, and policy direction are based on rigorous evidence. We will link policy officials to academic experts and identify opportunities for enhancing policy formulation through research. We will support the development of research capability in the Welsh Government. And, through our Research Apprenticeship scheme, PhD Internships, and the support, mentoring, and career development provided to our team, we will help build a new cadre of researchers who have the skills needed to generate and mobilise policy-relevant research.We will provide Public Services Boards (PSBs), local government and other public services with rigorous independent evidence about what works in improving long-term cultural, economic, environmental, and social well-being. We will work with our funders, PSBs, and public services to conduct a systematic evidence-needs analysis, and to co-design a programme of activities that helps to support the delivery of PSBs' well-being plans, build local capability and capacity to use evidence, and promote evaluative approaches to assessing implementation and impact.Our research on evidence use will draw on and contribute to leading-edge academic literature and inform and improve the way we in which work. It will advance understanding of evidence use through analysis of ours and others' experience of mobilising evidence, and it will systematically evaluate the impact and value-added of our work for ministers and public services.The WCPP's multi-disciplinary team provides a unique blend of experience of working in academia, national and local government, voluntary sector, think tanks and consultancy. This enables us to act as an effective bridge between the academic and policy making communities. It also means we are able to work with colleagues from a wide range of different disciplines. Our established project management processes will ensure effective management of external experts, and our work will be tailored to the distinctive policy agenda in Wales (including the well-being goals and ways of working) and recognise the importance of the Welsh language.By collaborating with external experts to draw on their existing research, we will provide rapid responses to urgent evidence needs identified by ministers and public services. Alongside this, we will focus on a small number of core topics that are priorities for the ESRC, Welsh Government and PSBs and which we are well placed to provide valuable evidence on. This focused approach will enable us to build up a body of sustained work and develop specialist knowledge and networks. We will work closely with national and local policy makers to co-design projects that support them to understand what will work in their specific political and policy contexts. And through our collaborations with What Works Centres and other strategic networks we will ensure that Wales continues to benefit from the work of other evidence providers.