Wales Centre for Public Policy

威尔士公共政策中心

基本信息

批准号：
ES/X005674/1
负责人：
Stephen Martin
金额：
$ 780.58万
依托单位：
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2023 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX005674%2F1
关键词：
Wales Centre Public Policy

项目摘要

Wales is grappling with complex and long-standing policy challenges including how to meet the needs of an ageing population, reduce poverty, and increase productivity whilst transitioning to a Net-Zero Carbon economy and dealing with the fall-out from Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic.The Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP) enables policy makers and public services to access and apply high-quality independent research evidence and expertise that helps to improve national and local responses to these and other challenges.The WCPP has already achieved significant success. We have had a demonstrable impact on a range of policy decisions and our unique, demand-led approach has attracted growing national and international recognition. Our proposal responds to an invitation from the ESRC and Welsh Government to set out plans to sustain and build on this success over the next five years.We will continue to conduct three distinct but inter-related programmes of work. Our work for the Welsh Government will ensure that ministerial advice, decisions, and policy direction are based on rigorous evidence. We will link policy officials to academic experts and identify opportunities for enhancing policy formulation through research. We will support the development of research capability in the Welsh Government. And, through our Research Apprenticeship scheme, PhD Internships, and the support, mentoring, and career development provided to our team, we will help build a new cadre of researchers who have the skills needed to generate and mobilise policy-relevant research.We will provide Public Services Boards (PSBs), local government and other public services with rigorous independent evidence about what works in improving long-term cultural, economic, environmental, and social well-being. We will work with our funders, PSBs, and public services to conduct a systematic evidence-needs analysis, and to co-design a programme of activities that helps to support the delivery of PSBs' well-being plans, build local capability and capacity to use evidence, and promote evaluative approaches to assessing implementation and impact.Our research on evidence use will draw on and contribute to leading-edge academic literature and inform and improve the way we in which work. It will advance understanding of evidence use through analysis of ours and others' experience of mobilising evidence, and it will systematically evaluate the impact and value-added of our work for ministers and public services.The WCPP's multi-disciplinary team provides a unique blend of experience of working in academia, national and local government, voluntary sector, think tanks and consultancy. This enables us to act as an effective bridge between the academic and policy making communities. It also means we are able to work with colleagues from a wide range of different disciplines. Our established project management processes will ensure effective management of external experts, and our work will be tailored to the distinctive policy agenda in Wales (including the well-being goals and ways of working) and recognise the importance of the Welsh language.By collaborating with external experts to draw on their existing research, we will provide rapid responses to urgent evidence needs identified by ministers and public services. Alongside this, we will focus on a small number of core topics that are priorities for the ESRC, Welsh Government and PSBs and which we are well placed to provide valuable evidence on. This focused approach will enable us to build up a body of sustained work and develop specialist knowledge and networks. We will work closely with national and local policy makers to co-design projects that support them to understand what will work in their specific political and policy contexts. And through our collaborations with What Works Centres and other strategic networks we will ensure that Wales continues to benefit from the work of other evidence providers.

威尔士正在应对复杂而长期的政策挑战，包括如何满足人口老龄化的需求，降低贫困和提高生产力，同时过渡到净零碳经济，并处理英国脱欧和COVID-19 PANDemic的下降。 WCPP已经取得了重大成功。我们对一系列政策决策产生了明显的影响，我们独特的，需求主导的方法吸引了日益增长的国家和国际认可。我们的提案回应了ESRC和威尔士政府的邀请，以制定计划在未来五年内维持和建立这一成功的计划。我们将继续开展三种不同但相互关联的工作计划。我们在威尔士政府的工作将确保部长建议，决定和政策指导基于严格的证据。我们将将政策官员与学术专家联系起来，并通过研究确定增强政策制定的机会。我们将支持威尔士政府研究能力的发展。 And, through our Research Apprenticeship scheme, PhD Internships, and the support, mentoring, and career development provided to our team, we will help build a new cadre of researchers who have the skills needed to generate and mobilise policy-relevant research.We will provide Public Services Boards (PSBs), local government and other public services with rigorous independent evidence about what works in improving long-term cultural, economic, environmental, and social well-being.我们将与我们的资助者，PSB和公共服务一起进行系统的证据分析，并共同设计一项活动，有助于支持PSBS的福祉计划，建立本地能力和使用证据的能力，并促进评估方法来评估实施和评估的实施和影响，并为领先的研究和促进领先的学习和努力，并改善了领先的学术和改善，我们在努力方面并改善了我们的工作，我们将在我们方面进行努力。它将通过分析我们的和其他人动员证据的经验来提高对证据使用的理解，并将系统地评估我们对部长和公共服务的工作的影响和增值。WCPP的多学科团队提供了在学术界，国家和地方政府，自愿行业，自愿坦克和咨询公司，国家和地方政府，智囊团和咨询公司的独特经验。这使我们能够充当学术和政策制定社区之间的有效桥梁。这也意味着我们能够与来自各种不同学科的同事合作。我们既定的项目管理流程将确保有效地管理外部专家，我们的工作将针对威尔士的独特政策议程（包括福祉目标和工作方式），并认识到威尔士语的重要性。通过与外部专家合作以借鉴其现有研究，我们将对部长和公开服务确定的紧急证据需要快速响应。除此之外，我们将重点介绍少数核心主题，这些核心主题是ESRC，威尔士政府和PSB的优先事项，并且我们很适合提供宝贵的证据。这种集中的方法将使我们能够建立持续的工作并发展专业知识和网络。我们将与国家和地方政策制定者紧密合作，共同设计支持他们的项目，以了解在其特定的政治和政策环境中有效的内容。通过与工作中心和其他战略网络的合作，我们将确保威尔士继续从其他证据提供者的工作中受益。