The homes and communities investment evidence collaboration

家庭和社区投资证据协作的目的是将最新的权威研究嵌入到HCA的投资决策中。HCA成立于2008年，是英格兰的国家住房和再生投资机构。在2011年至2015年期间，它的总预算为80亿英镑，用于促进经济增长和提供高质量的经济适用房。HCA与地方当局、住房协会和其他伙伴合作，为新的经济适用住房提供投资，改善现有的社会住房，并重新开发土地。通过其促进作用，HCA的工作人员向当地合作伙伴提供技能和经验。在其工作的关键时刻，HCA希望与伦敦经济学院和约克大学住房政策中心（CHP）的一组主要住房研究人员建立一个小规模的、高度针对性的伙伴关系。这项建议是由丽贝卡·滕斯托博士（伦敦经济学院）与HCA的企业战略主管吉姆·贝内特和战略经理库尔希达·米尔扎协调制定的。他们合作进行了一系列成功的传统研究项目。HCA现在希望发展这种关系，以促进学术界和关键决策人员之间更密集的知识交流。这些人将包括来自英国HCA六个地方的工作人员，以及来自HCA两个合作伙伴组织的一些工作人员：其赞助部门，社区和地方政府部门（DCLG），以及其主要地方合作伙伴的全国代表，地方政府集团（LGG）。该合作将通过为来自HCA、DCLG和LGG的约20名关键决策工作人员举办的一系列三次密集、量身定制的讲习班来建立，包括详细和互动地介绍参与者选择的主题的现有证据基础，并探讨证据对即将做出的决策的影响。这些讲习班打算在合作年度内立即适用。它们还将建立个人和组织的能力，并形成希望成为一个持续自我维持的从业人员和研究人员非正式网络的基础。合作的目的是：-让房委会、区建局及地方政府发展局向学术研究人员学习，以加强政府房屋及重建工作的优先次序；-弥合学术研究、政策和业务交付与实践之间的差距；-允许研究人员与政策制定者接触，更多地了解他们的研究需求，以及如何使研究对政策应用最有用。该提案提供了研究的潜力，通过相对较小的预算，直接影响到HCA和合作伙伴在2012年及随后几年在英格兰负担得起的住房和再生方面的大量和长期的公共投资。HCA认为，目前在将学术研究人员和业务交付合作伙伴聚集在一起，为交付以及正在进行和未来的研究提供信息和影响方面存在差距。

The aim of the homes and communities investment evidence collaboration is to embed up to date and authoritative research in the HCA's investment decision-making. The HCA was established in 2008 as the national housing and regeneration investment agency for England. Over the period 2011-2015 it has a total budget of £8bn to spend to promote economic growth and to deliver high quality affordable housing. The HCA works with local authorities, housing associations and other partners, to provide investment for new affordable housing, to improve existing social housing and to redevelop land. Through its enabling role, HCA staff provide skills and experience to local partners. At a critical time for its work, the HCA would like to form a small, highly targeted partnership with a group of key housing researchers at the London School of Economics and the Centre for Housing Policy (CHP) at the University of York.This proposal has been developed by Dr Rebecca Tunstall (LSE), in co-ordination with Jim Bennett, Head of Corporate Strategy and Kurshida Mirza, Strategy Manager at the HCA. They have worked together on a series of successful conventional research projects. The HCA would now like to develop this relationship to promote more intensive knowledge exchange between academics and key decision-making staff. These will include staff from HCA's six localities across England, and some staff from two of the HCA's partner organisations: its sponsoring department, the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), and the national representatives of its key local partners, the Local Government Group (LGG). The collaboration will be established through a series of three intensive, tailored workshops for about 20 key decision-making staff from the HCA, DCLG and LGG, involving detailed and interactive presentation of the current evidence base on topics selected by participants, and exploration of the implications of evidence for forthcoming decisions. The workshops are intended to be immediately applicable during the year of the collaboration. They will also build individual and organisational capacity, and form the basis for what is hoped will be an ongoing self-sustaining informal network of practioners and researcher members. The collaboration aims to:-Enable the HCA, DCLG and the LGG to learn from academic researchers to enhance the delivery of Government's housing and regeneration priorities; -Bridge the gap between academic research, policy and operational delivery and practice;-Allow researchers to engage with policy makers, to learn more about their research needs, and how research can be made most useful for application in policy.This proposal offers the potential for research to influence directly very substantial and long-lasting public investments by the HCA and partners in affordable housing and regeneration across England over 2012 and subsequent years, through a comparatively small budget. The HCA feel there is currently a gap in bringing academic researchers and operational delivery partners together to inform and influence both delivery and ongoing and future research.