The event, organised by the University's Public Affairs team, brought civil servants and academics together to discuss six research themes identified by DWP:
- Employment and progression
- Disability and health
- Security in later life
- Children and families
- Service delivery
- Cross-cutting research methods
In response to the 2015 Nurse review of the UK Research Councils, the government accepted the review’s recommendation to provide:
- a more strategic approach to departmental research and development programmes
- a more sophisticated dialogue with academia
- documents that set out the most important research questions facing each department
ARI aim to improve how government departments:
- align scientific and research evidence from academia with policy development and decision-making
- access a wide range of suppliers
- engage with researchers
- access stronger policy evidence bases at better value for money
- share research commissions
Published ARI for government departments can be found online here.