ARI Policy Engagement Fellow

政府部门已经制作了简短的文件，概述了他们的研究重点，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了解的内容。通过这一政策参与研究金，我将与政策和研究专家互动，帮助政府最大限度地利用这些ARI。这将涉及与一名研究参与研究员以及研究和政策专家密切合作，为处理这些优先事项的未来工作方案提出建议。为此，我们将利用我们在为政策提供和使用证据方面的社会科学专门知识，特别是在有效促进和合作方面。我们的工作包括几个阶段：1.优先次序：作为政策参与研究员，我将领导与部门首席科学顾问、分析主任和政策专业负责人的工作，以探索ARI是如何产生的，由谁制作；学术参与的程度；以及进一步完善的可能性。在对ARI的内容和主题进行分析的基础上，我们将召开会议(S)，确定一系列关键ARI的优先顺序，并找出它们对不同利益攸关方的有用之处。我们将包括交叉的ARI，以及那些专注于部门优先事项的ARI，选择以不同方式开发的ARI。这将帮助我们了解跨政府协作的潜力，以及使ARI发挥作用的不同方式。确定相关专业知识：我将在政策线索和部门、政府分析团队和机构中确定与这些ARI相关的专业知识。研究参与研究员将在外部中心，如什么工作中心，跨学科边界，包括(但不限于)社会科学，寻找相关的研究专门知识。通过共同设计的过程连接和提炼ARI：我们将把这些专家聚集在一系列6个研讨会中，旨在从最初的ARI转移到更具体的研究问题。我们将共同为研究人员、资助者和政府制定建议，这些建议可能会影响未来的资金呼吁、政策或证据简报，或者导致具体的研究合作。这些讲习班可能具有挑战性，因为参与者将有不同的优先事项和做法。我们将利用我们作为支持性和积极主动的领导者的经验，通过经过考验的促进方法来克服这些问题。4.为发展研究-政策参与的能力提供指导：我将领导两个圆桌会议，以最大限度地从这些奖学金中学习：(1)与GO-Science和利益相关者一起，优化政府内部ARI的发展和优先顺序，为未来ARI的发展提供信息，以及(2)与研究资助者和研究利益相关者支持有效和伦理的研究-政策参与，展示我们的工作，并讨论研究资助社区和学术界如何应对ARIS产生的主题。通过奖学金的所有阶段，我们希望了解哪些类型的基础设施、倡议和投资最能支持有效和道德的政策-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，并更广泛地了解证据使用的过程。我们将通过与我们的咨询小组定期讨论，定期记录我们的思考，并在可能的情况下采用正式的研究方法来获取这种学习。这将对希望知道如何使研究投资价值最大化的英国政府、ESRC和UKRI(以及可能对其他政府，如美国)非常有用(UKRI，2019年)。我们将与ESRC和Go-Science合作，找到与更广泛的政策、资金和研究社区分享这一学习的方法。

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 Policy 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 Research Engagement Fellow, 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 Policy Engagement Fellow, I will lead 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 meeting(s) 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 identify expertise relevant to these ARIs across policy leads and Departments, Government analytics teams and agencies. The Research Engagement Fellow 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 lead 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.