Wales Centre for Public Policy

威尔士正在努力应对复杂和长期的政策挑战，包括如何满足人口老龄化的需求，减少贫困，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技术，高质量的独立研究证据和专业知识，有助于改善国家和地方对这些挑战和其他挑战的反应。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得到了越来越多的国家和国际认可。我们的建议是应欧洲社会研究委员会和威尔士政府的邀请提出的，即制定计划，在未来五年内维持和巩固这一成功。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的建议、决定和政策方向都基于严格的证据。我们将把政策官员与学术专家联系起来，并确定通过研究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。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，我们将帮助建立一个新的研究人员队伍，他们拥有产生和动员政策相关研究所需的技能。我们将为公共服务委员会（PSB），地方政府和其他公共服务部门提供严格的独立证据，说明如何改善长期的文化，经济，环境和社会福祉。我们将与我们的资助者，PSB和公共服务部门合作，进行系统的证据需求分析，并共同设计一个活动计划，帮助支持PSB的福祉计划的交付，建立当地使用证据的能力和能力，并促进评估实施和影响的评估方法。我们对证据使用的研究将借鉴并有助于领导-边缘学术文献和通知和改善我们的工作方式。它将通过分析我们和其他人在调动证据方面的经验来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的影响和增值。WCPP的多学科团队提供了在学术界、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。这使我们能够充当学术界和决策界之间的有效桥梁。这也意味着我们能够与来自不同学科的同事合作。我们建立的项目管理流程将确保有效管理外部专家，我们的工作将根据威尔士独特的政策议程（包括福利目标和工作方式）进行调整，并认识到威尔士语言的重要性。通过与外部专家合作，利用他们现有的研究，我们将对部长和公共服务部门确定的紧急证据需求做出快速反应。除此之外，我们将专注于少数核心主题，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。这种集中的方法将使我们能够建立一个持续工作的机构，并发展专业知识和网络。我们将与国家和地方政策制定者密切合作，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如何发挥作用。通过我们与什么工作中心和其他战略网络的合作，我们将确保威尔士继续受益于其他证据提供者的工作。

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.