Core to the FCO’s work is preparing for and responding to new and sometimes unexpected natural and political events whether opportunity or crisis. Research findings on current and emerging trends to improve future forecasting, or metrics to evaluate the success or otherwise of interventions, would be of interest.
Research enquiries should be submitted to email: fcocorrespondence@fco.gov.uk
Science and Innovation Network enquiries may be addressed to the general mailbox: ScienceandInnovationEnquires@fco.gsi.gov.uk or to individual SIN teams overseas at the addresses listed at https://www.gov.uk/world/organisations/uk-science-and-innovation-network
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
The MRC Economic Impact call states that "The MRC wishes to understand better the link between research and wider economic and societal impacts, and to use this understanding to improve strategies for the future sup...
Funded by: MRC
Lead research organisation: University of Sussex
The project directly addresses the question by developing and testing a new approach for evaluating biomedical research teams and understanding how research processes can be improved to enhance impact.
Research Councils "encourage researchers to consider the potential contribution that their research can make to the economy and society from the outset, and the resources required to carry out appropriate and projec...
Funded by: MRC
Lead research organisation: King's College London
The project aims to understand the relative valuations of research impact by surveying the general population and biomedical/health researchers, directly addressing the question.
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 embedding and sustaining project-initiated improvements in research capacity, which is partially relevant to the question of evaluating the quality of research and relative quality comparisons between international research collaboration and domestic.