Our remit is global and our interests correspondingly wide. The below are indicative rather than fully comprehensive questions of relevance for our work and are arranged into ten overlapping categories.
The dynamic nature of world events and diplomatic work around them mean that we often need research based insights to help anticipate, shape, manage and benefit from unfolding developments and possible futures. The synthesised expertise of researchers can help us make judgements in a policy environment where experimental trials and replicable results are often impossible or inappropriate.
Because time can be of the essence we value emerging results and insights shared via updates, short events, websites and similar, in advance of peer reviewed articles.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
FCO Areas of research interest coronavirus COVID 19 update May 2020 GOVUK
The UK academic community is entering a challenging period. For the social sciences the challenges are profound - the Higher Education funding landscape is turbulent, the Covid pandemic is disrupting student flows both d...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Lancaster University
The project specifically addresses the impact of Covid pandemic on the uptake of international study and the longer term implications for the research ecosystem in the UK and internationally.
The project 'Science Advice for Policy by European Academies' (SAPEA) is part of the Scientific Advice Mechanism of the European Commission. At the request of the EC, it providestargeted scientific evidence in a timely a...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
The project is competent in providing scientific advice for policy, but does not specifically address the impact of coronavirus on international study or the UK's reputation as a leading science nation.
The UK government is committed to helping developing countries create their own solutions to the challenges they face rather than trying to adopt potentially inappropriate solutions from elsewhere. If developing countrie...
Funded by: GCRF
Lead research organisation: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
The project focuses on strengthening research capacity in developing countries, which indirectly relates to the impact of Covid pandemic on the research ecosystem in the UK and internationally.