Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre

考虑到关键政策领域的数据越来越多，PEC将在四个高级别优先主题领域中的每一个领域推出固定的英国范围的“国情”报告，这些主题领域将由组成研究联盟的四个组织领导：1.研发、创新和集群(苏塞克斯大学)；2.创意教育、技能、人才(工作进展)；3.国际化(纽卡斯尔大学)；以及4.艺术、文化和遗产部门(谢菲尔德大学)。这些报告将与业界和政策制定者协商，利用RSA的活动能力，定期每半年发布一次，并提前安排，以促进计划中的参与活动。我们设想这些报告将包括关于官方和其他可公开获得的经济和相关社会指标的系统、表格和图表部分，以及关于需要更多分析的热点问题的深入研究。定期报告的四个主题优先领域的部分原因是需要避免现有英国英才中心所涵盖的工作重复，例如格拉斯哥大学专门研究知识产权、监管和竞争问题的CREATE研究中心，以及已经提供定期报告的公共部门广播(PSB)等领域，例如通过Ofcom的媒体和通信报道。然而，PEC仍将在确定证据基础中存在重要差距的领域进行初步研究。除了利用官方和公开的数据来源外，国情报告还将从PEC提议开发的一个新的旗舰纵向业务小组中提取见解。这将涉及从一个由英国创意产业公司和选定比较行业的公司组成的小组收集调查数据。除了国情咨文中的分析性深入研究外，我们打算让PEC对证据基础做出重要的原创性研究贡献，包括从英国和海外学术和私营部门机构招聘的大型多学科PEC研究员网络。将鼓励研究员竞标(联合)委托研究的定向呼吁。除了了解PEC的研究呼吁，成为PEC研究员的好处还包括：专业认可和知名度；接触其他PEC研究员；有机会确定PEC的主题优先事项；有机会参与政策制定者的参与活动；有机会对PEC的工作进行同行审查，并被邀请出席PEC研讨会和会议。我们亦会资助一些有时限的“小型网络”拨款，集中于汇聚一批PEC研究员，就某项与政策有关的研究领域进行质询，以促进合作和知识分享。PEC的网站亦将成为在PEC以外进行的卓越政策相关研究的平台。这将采取博客、播客和讨论文件的形式。我们还将利用我们的虚拟和面对面的活动，让政策制定者注意到来自英国和其他地方更广泛的学术文献的重要贡献。创意产业PEC与其他以政策为重点的研究中心的不同之处在于我们嵌入了知识交流的方法。也就是说，我们尽可能地让PEC研究人员和我们的政策股人员参与我们主要利益攸关方的政策规划、设计和实施过程。这种嵌入性将继续是我们工作的一个决定性特征：它将释放机会，帮助更多的研究人员变得更懂政策，并支持政策制定者变得更善于使用数据和研究证据。

In recognition of the growing availability of data in key areas of policy, the PEC will introduce set piece UK-wide 'State of the Nation' reporting in each of four high-level priority thematic areas led by the four organisations that will make up the research consortium: 1. R&D, Innovation and Clusters (Sussex University); 2. Creative Education, Skills, Talent (Work Advance); 3. Internationalisation (Newcastle University), and 4. the Arts, Cultural & Heritage sectors (University of Sheffield) respectively. These reports will be specified in consultation with industry and policymakers, launched at regular biannual frequencies drawing on the RSA's events capacity and scheduled well in advance to facilitate planned engagement activities. We envisage the reports to include systematic tabular and chart-based sections on official and other publicly available economic and relevant social indicators as well as deep dives on issues of topical interest where more analysis is needed. The four thematic priority areas for regular reporting are partly informed by the need to avoid duplication of work covered within existing UK centres of excellence, such as the CREATe research centre at Glasgow University which specialises in intellectual property, regulation and competition issues, and areas like public sector broadcasting (PSB) where regular reporting is already available, such as through the media and communications reports from Ofcom. However, the PEC will still conduct primary research in such areas where important gaps in the evidence base are identified.As well as drawing on official and open data sources, the State of the Nation reports will extract insights from a new flagship longitudinal business panel that the PEC proposes to develop. This will involve collecting survey data from a panel of UK-based creative industries firms and firms in selected comparator sectors. In addition to the analytical deep dives in the State of the Nation reports, we intend that the PEC will make important original research contributions to the evidence base including from a large, multi-disciplinary network of PEC Research Fellows recruited from UK and overseas academic and private sector institutions. Fellows will be encouraged to bid for targeted calls for (co-)commissioned research. As well as being made aware of PEC research calls, the benefits of being a PEC Research Fellow will include: professional recognition and visibility; access to other PEC Research Fellows; the chance to shape the PEC's thematic priorities; opportunities to participate in policymaker engagement activities; opportunities to peer review PEC work, and invitations to present at PEC seminars and conferences. We will also fund a limited number of time-limited 'Small Networks' grants, focused on bringing together a group of PEC Research Fellows to interrogate a particular policy-relevant research area, promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing.The PEC's website will also serve as a platform for excellent policy-relevant research undertaken outside of the PEC. This will take the form of blogs, podcasts and Discussion Papers. We will also use our virtual and in-person events to bring to policymakers' attention important contributions from the wider academic literature in the UK and beyond. What differentiates the Creative Industries PEC from other policy-focused research centres is our embedded approach to knowledge exchange. That is, we embed PEC researchers and our Policy Unit personnel as much as possible in the policy planning, design and delivery processes of our key stakeholders. This embeddedness will continue to be a defining feature of our work: it will unlock the opportunity to help more researchers become more policy-literate, and to support policymakers to become more adept at using data and research evidence.