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 International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO) will address the social impact of COVID-19 and policies to mitigate against a range of negative impacts. It will be responsive, rigorous and react quickly to policymaker...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University College London
The project addresses the social impact of COVID-19 and policies to mitigate against negative impacts, providing useful insights to policy stakeholders.
Recovery is "the process of rebuilding, restoring and rehabilitating the community following an emergency" (HMG Emergency Response and Recovery, 2013). For COVID-19, recovery will involve all-of society (becaus...
Funded by: COVID
Lead research organisation: University of Manchester
The project focuses on informing, supporting, and developing guidance for local resilience in the recovery from COVID-19, which partially addresses the question.
This project brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the UK and South Korea to contribute to the development of a body of knowledge, academic exchange and collaboration, and dissemination activities ...
Funded by: FIC
Lead research organisation: University of Bristol
The project addresses critical human security and public policy challenges in a post-COVID world, which partially relates to the question.