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Capabilities in Academic Policy Engagement (CAPE)
CAPE is a knowledge exchange and research project exploring how to support effective and sustained engagement between academics and policy professionals across the higher education sector.
10 May 2022
Partners
- UCL Public Policy
- University of Cambridge
- University of Manchester
- Northumbria University
- University of Nottingham
- Government Office for Science
- Parliamentary Office for Science & Technology
- Nesta
- Transforming Evidence Hub
CAPE is funded by Research England (2020 - 2024)
About
Local and central governments need to be confident that their policy interventions are effective and successful. Academic expertise has a crucial role to support this process. This 3-year project will foster and support academic engagement with policy professionals, and enable greater understanding and cooperation between universities, national government, parliament and regional and local authorities.
> read more UCL to lead £3.9m national collaboration to drive academic policy engagement
Outputs and Impacts
- Applying for co-production funding in academic policy engagement: lessons from the CAPE Collaboration Fund, CAPE coordinator Chris Peters
- Improving learning opportunities for policy engagement: lessons from the CAPE consortium,
- Why are knowledge exchange events in academic policy engagement so important?, CAPE coordinators Kayleigh Renberg-Fawcett and Chris Peters
- Answering the Challenges to Open Access: The ‘5 Cs’, CAPE Co-I Sarah Chaytor
- Spending 12 months embedded in the academic world: reflections from CAPE Policy Fellow Roshnee Patel
- The CAPE-Ministry of Justice partnership: reflections from 12 months of activity, CAPE partner Ben Hepthworth
- Building Areas of Research Interest (ARI) for select committees, CAPE fellow Rob Davies
- Strengthening regional academic policy engagement: the case of West Yorkshire, CAPE fellow Richard Whittle
- Blog: Lessons from literature and practice: how to support successful academic-policy engagement, CAPE Postdoctoral Fellow Ariana Darvish, CAPE Co-l Sarah Chaytor, CAPE Project Manager, Robyn Parker
- Oldham Economic Review and Levelling Up, led by CAPE Co-I the University of Manchester. Read the report and the summary.
- Journal article: What works to promote research-policy engagement?
- Report of the Capabilities in Academic-Policy Engagement (CAPE) seminar and panel discussion on Chief Scientific Advisors, 14 December 2020
- Workshop report: CAPE and the London Policy & Strategy Network, 31st March 2021
- CAPE has been picked up in the Media including In The Media: Call for regional scientific advisers to boost local engagement and Universities must collaborate to better inform public policy in THE, Academic-policy engagement: from the niche to the mainstream in Universities Business, It’s time for academic-policy engagement to truly take off In WonkHE.
- CAPECast –is the podcast from the CAPE team where we have an in-depth discussion with those with whom we collaborate, getting into the knotty issues behind academic-policy engagement and exploring our learning and insights we are discovering about what works, how, why and when - https://www.cape.ac.uk/capecast/