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

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.鈥疉cademic expertise has a crucial role to support this process. This 3-year鈥痯roject 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.

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Build capacity and capability within universities and amongst policy professionals through training programmes and skills development.聽
Develop activities and mechanisms to promote engagement and knowledge exchange at different levels of government and in different geographical contexts.聽
Develop an evidence and knowledge base through ongoing, embedded evaluation and the provision of evidence-based frameworks and toolkits for use by universities and policy stakeholders.聽
Incubate a Centre for Universities and Public Policy to provide an online platform for networking and sharing project resources for widespread use.聽聽

Outputs and Impacts聽

CAPE coordinator Chris Peters聽
Improving learning opportunities for policy engagement: lessons from the CAPE consortium,聽聽
CAPE coordinators Kayleigh Renberg-Fawcett and Chris Peters聽
CAPE Co-I Sarah Chaytor聽聽
Spending 12 months embedded in the academic world: reflections from CAPE Policy Fellow Roshnee Patel聽
The CAPE-Ministry of Justice partnership: reflections from 12 months of activity, CAPE partner Ben Hepthworth聽
Building Areas of Research Interest (ARI) for select committees, CAPE fellow Rob Davies聽
Strengthening regional academic policy engagement: the case of West Yorkshire, CAPE fellow Richard Whittle聽
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聽
led by CAPE Co-I the University of Manchester. Read the and the summary.聽聽
Journal article: What works to promote research-policy engagement?聽
Report of the Capabilities in Academic-Policy Engagement (CAPE) seminar and panel discussion on Chief Scientific Advisors, 14 December 2020聽
31st March 2021聽
CAPE has been picked up in the Media including In The Media: Call for regional scientific advisers to boost local engagement and in THE, in Universities Business, In WonkHE.聽聽
CAPECast 鈥搃s 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 -

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