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
One of the key responses to the Covid-19 crisis is change in individuals' behaviour. The success of social distancing, hand-washing, or the wearing of masks/face coverings all depend on individual members of the communit...
Funded by: COVID
Lead research organisation: School of Oriental and African Studies
The project investigates how different social groups respond to information on coronavirus in different countries, specifically focusing on linguistically diverse communities in London.
Pakistan has one of the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the world, with potentially devastating health and economic implications for a population heavily dependent on daily incomes. It is important to en...
Funded by: GCRF
Lead research organisation: University of Central Lancashire
The project explores the cultural barriers and facilitators to communicating public health messages in rural communities in North West Pakistan, which provides insights into how different social groups respond to information on coronavirus.
Data from the 'Coronavirus and the Social Impacts on Great Britain' survey are used to assess social impacts as the COVID-19 crisis deepens. This project reports on the social impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on peopl...
Funded by: COVID
Lead research organisation: University of Strathclyde