Centre for Public Authority and International Development Transition

1)制作和传播高质量的、基于证据的研究，为地方、国家和国际政策应对当代挑战提供信息；扩大我们的工作范围，使用创新方法对持续的人道主义和治理危机进行有影响力的研究，包括冲突、大规模流离失所、埃博拉和COVID-19，并与全球南方的合作伙伴共同制作同行评议研究、政策简报和博客，并经常影响国家和国际组织的应对措施。重点将是确保研究成果达到相关受众，并巩固公共权威视角的效用，以设计适当的政策应对当代危机和治理挑战，包括由ESRC和UKRI确定的战略优先事项。在这方面，CPAID将利用其与学术机构、发展和人道主义组织的现有关系，扩大其研究的范围和影响。2) CPAID将进行比较研究，探索“公共权威”在多大程度上可以帮助我们理解全球南北的困难动态：目的是进一步探索在非洲背景下开发的公共权威视角的效用，以探索英国、欧洲和其他地方以及非洲的当代治理动态和政策反应。正在进行的和新的比较研究将填补人们和当局如何应对新出现的挑战和危机的知识空白。在一个以全球危机、民粹主义和两极化政治、国家和国际治理机构退缩为特征的时代，这一点非常重要。3) CPAID将使用创新的方法和产出，以确保公共权威视角仍然是知识生产、分析和政策响应的一个特征：在过渡阶段，CPAID将努力确保其经验教训和公共权威视角被新一代的研究人员和实践者所接受和应用，这些研究人员和实践者面对和辩论复杂的集体行动问题和对主流治理机构日益丧失的信任。这将通过认可的课程来实现，这些课程以公共当局的视角来理解发展和人道主义问题和实践，并通过知识产品，如博客、政策简报、期刊论文、编辑卷和教科书来实现，这些知识产品展示了这一概念在知识产生、分析和决策方面的效用。除此之外，CPAID还将继续与生活和工作在具有挑战性环境中的学者、发展实践者和组织合作、指导和共同开展研究，并通过一系列创新媒介——从漫画到播客和视频——传播这些研究成果。4) CPAID将加强现有伙伴关系并建立新的伙伴关系，以确保互惠的知识交流和能力建设：该中心将利用其与当地合作伙伴的长期合作，举办一系列圆桌会议、研讨会和知识传播活动，以实现全球南北之间以及他们之间的互惠能力建设和知识交流。这不仅将使CPAID的研究人员能够进一步理解和重新思考研究关系和不平等现象，而且还将确保与全球南方和北方的学者和组织建立新的伙伴关系，推进我们的核心使命，即支持广泛的声音，挑战主流的工作方式，分析治理和集体行动问题，以及决策。这将包括与在当代危机前线工作的发展和人道主义组织的合作。

1) Produce and disseminate high-quality, evidence-based research that informs local, national, and international policies responses to contemporary challenges: Expanding on our work using innovative methodologies to produce impactful research on ongoing humanitarian and governance crises, including conflict, mass displacement, Ebola and COVID-19, and outputs that have often shaped states and international organisations' responses to co-produce peer reviewed research, policy briefs and blogs with partners from the Global South. The focus will be on ensuring research outputs reach relevant audiences and cement the utility of a public authority lens for designing appropriate policy responses to contemporary crises and governance challenges, including strategic priorities identified by the ESRC and UKRI. Here, CPAID will draw on its existing relationships with academic institutions, and development and humanitarian organisations, to amplify the reach and impact of its research.2) CPAID will produce comparative work to explore the extent to which 'public authority' can help us understand difficult dynamics in the Global South and north: The aim will be to further explore the utility of a public authority lens, developed in African contexts, for exploring contemporary governance dynamics and policy responses in UK, Europe and elsewhere, as well as Africa. Ongoing and new comparative research will fill gaps in knowledge of how populations and authorities are responding to emerging challenges and crises. This is important in an era defined by global crises, populist and polarised politics, and the retreat of state and international governance institutions.3) CPAID will use innovative approaches and outputs to ensure a public authority lens remains a feature of knowledge production, analyses and policy responses: During the transition phase CPAID will work to ensure that its lessons and public authority lens is taken up and applied by new generations of researchers and practitioners confronting and debating complex collective action problems and waning trust in mainstream governance institutions. This will be achieved through accredited courses that centre a public authority lens in their understanding of development and humanitarian problems and practice, and through knowledge products such as blogs, policy briefs, journal papers, edited volumes, and textbooks that demonstrate the utility of the concept for knowledge generation, analysis, and policymaking. Alongside this, CPAID will continue to work with, mentor and co-produce research with academics, development practitioners and organisations living and working in challenging contexts and to disseminate it through a range of innovative mediums - from cartoons to podcasts and videos.4) CPAID will enhance existing partnerships and build new ones to ensure reciprocal knowledge exchange and capacity building: The centre will use its long-standing collaborations with local partners to hold a series of round tables, workshops and knowledge dissemination activities that enable reciprocal capacity building and knowledge exchange, both between those from the Global North and south, and among them. This will not only enable CPAID researchers to further understand and rethink research relationships and inequalities, but also ensure new partnership with academics and organisations in the Global South and north advance our core mission of supporting a broad spectrum of voices to challenge mainstream ways of working, analysing governance and collective action problems, and policymaking. This will include collaborations with development and humanitarian organisations working on the frontline of contemporary crises.