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
There is widespread concern among scholars and popular commentators that citizens have grown more distrustful of politicians, sceptical about political institutions, and disillusioned with democratic processes and princi...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Southampton
The project focuses on analyzing trust in agencies of national and global governance, which is directly related to the question of public trust in democratic, religious, and social institutions.
We propose an ambitious cross-national and inter-disciplinary study to understand the critical role that trust plays in public support and compliance with governmental COVID-19 policies. Policy success depends on the pub...
Funded by: FIC
Lead research organisation: Brunel University London
The project investigates trust towards governmental COVID-19 responses and measures, which is partially related to the question of public trust in democratic, religious, and social institutions.