Last week, we attended the Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) Conference in York, where the theme was Connecting and Collaborating across the UK Academic-Policy Landscape

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The BES POST Fellowship is a fantastic opportunity for a BES member who is a PhD student at a UK university to work with the Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST) to gain policy experience.
Apply by 23:59 on 12/6.
More info below:
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✏️How do you include EDI in your academic-policy engagement research? Join our free training session on ''Embedding Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in your policy impact'' to learn!
📍B100 / 7011, Highfield Campus
⏰11 June 2024
👉Sign up here: southampton.ac.uk/publicpolicy/w…
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Thanks to Rebecca Riley and the excellent panel for a very thought provoking session on place-based policymaking. #UPEN2

Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) The York Policy Engine

The #CSaPAnnualConference2024 takes place on 18 Jun at The Royal Society

Policy makers & academics will discuss pressing issues such as

🖥️Quantum future
🌿Rebuilding nature
🧑‍🏫AI in education
🏘️Decarbonising housing
📈Regional economic growth

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Phase 2 of the NERC-Economic and Social Research Council Policy engagement training programme is open for applications!

The programme is designed to support researchers to make a demonstrable difference to evidence-informed public policy with their research. Apply by 31st May👉 methodsinnovation.org/policy-engagem…

👏 And that’s a wrap!

A huge thank you to everyone that attended the UPEN Annual Conference today, from our brilliant line up of speakers, to our attendees who facilitated great conversations and to The York Policy Engine University of York for hosting us! #UPEN2

Great panel Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) #UPEN2 on Place-based Policymaking. Strong call from Emily Morrison The Young Foundation to put people at the heart of places & convene community knowledge alongside research, with Juliet Jopson, Rich Pickford, Jon Gleek Megan Wade Economic and Social Research Council and Rebecca Riley

💬Finishing off the day by listening to Hannah White's closing keynote on the Institute for Government's role in academic-policy engagement for the upcoming year - interesting food for thought for the journey home! 🚄

#UPENConference2024 Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN)

Its time for the Closing Keynote! 🕒

Hannah White OBE, Director of Institute for Government reflects on the Institute for Government's work in facilitating relationships between universities and policy makers to help research better inform policy #UPEN2

Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) Table 3⃣ are using our Policy Fellowships guide to discuss improving mobility in the academic-policy engagement landscape. 🌐 #UPENConference2024 Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN)

Read our guidance here: bit.ly/hosting-policy…

Table 2⃣ are using our project scoping template to explore coproduction for more strategic and mutually beneficial academic-policy engagement! 🤝 #UPENConference2024 Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN)

Download the template here: bit.ly/CAPEproject-sc…

📢It's time for our roundtable session at #UPENConference2024 ! We will be discussing our work developing toolkits and guides to help problem solve common issues in academic-policy engagement.

Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) Robyn Parker Olivia Stevenson

✍️ The table discussions are underway! The three groups are busy discussing CAPE, ARI's and POST (UK Parliament), sharing their expertise and experiences to problem solve together #UPEN2 The York Policy Engine

How do we incentivize academics to do more Place-based research? How do we support knowledge brokerage? Rich Pickford #UPEN2024 Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) Nottingham Civic Exchange

‘It is important to recognise that it is not lack capability within local authorities to address the challenges faced by people, it is rather lack of capacity due to austerity and other constraints.’ Jon Gleek #UPEN2024 Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) Nottingham Civic Exchange

Interesting panel discussion at #UPENConference2024 on place based policy making. 🏦

We've done a lot of work in this area at CAPE, so it's great to see it being prioritised by the sector. 💡

Juliet Jopson Rich Pickford Institute for Community Studies Jon Gleek City-REDI Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN)

👀Check out the resources page which brings together the whole corpus of Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) blogs, reports and all of CAPE's toolkits guides and case studies

➡️Your new go-to source for materials to support academic policy engagement

💻upen.ac.uk/resources/

🎉Very excited to announce the launch of the new & improved Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) website today!! We've been collaborating on with them on this as part of our legacy for when CAPE finishes at the end of 2024

💻upen.ac.uk/about/

‘Asking the right questions about the local challenges is as important as finding experts that can explore solutions.’ Rich Pickford on the Place-based policy making panel at #UPEN2024 Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) Nottingham Civic Exchange