What is policy engagement?
Why is policy engagement important for researchers and where can you start?
Bath Policy Engagement Academy
Information and guidance for University of Bath researchers to support them with policy engagement.
Getting started with policy engagement
Information and advice on policy engagement and policymaking processes.
Policy audiences
Guidance on engaging policymakers working locally, nationally and internationally.
Government and policy engagement
How does Government work, what is the role of the civil service and where are there opportunities to engage with policymakers?
Parliament and policy engagement
What is the role of the UK Parliament in policymaking and what are the routes for policy engagement for academics?
Devolved, regional and local Government and policy engagement
What is the role of devolved, regional and local Government within policymaking and how can academics contribute and influence through policy engagement?
What Works Centres
What are What Works Centres and how do you engage with them?
Think tanks, advocacy groups, business and charities
Understand the role of think tanks and other policy actors in policymaking and consider routes for policy engagement.
Routes to policy engagement
Information and recommendations on different routes for policy engagement for researchers.
Stakeholder mapping
Advice on segmenting and reaching relevant policy audiences.
Government consultations and evidence requests
Ways to apply your research and expertise to respond to written consultations and evidence requests.
Areas of Research Interest (ARIs)
What are ARIs and how can researchers contribute to them?
Select Committees and APPGs
Introducing Parliament's Select Committees and APPGs, and ways to engage with them.
Parliament's Libraries and POST
The role of Parliament's Libraries and the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology and ways to engage.
Academic policy fellowships and placements
Gain first-hand experience of working with policymakers in areas aligned with your research.
Communications, networks and impact
Information on engaging policy audiences and evidencing impact from policy engagement.
Planning for and evidencing policy impact
What is policy impact and how do you evidence it?
Communicating research for policy audiences
Guidance on framing and crafting compelling messages about your research.
Policy briefs
How to produce and disseminate a policy brief.
Policy events and roundtables
Policy events and roundtables to enable networking, two-way learning and to disseminate your research findings.
National policy networks
National policy networks exist to offer learning opportunities and routes to build your policy networks.
IPR Policy Fellowship Programme
Learn more about the IPR's Policy Fellowship Programme which connects senior policy and decision makers with University of Bath researchers.
Learning from others
Draw insights from University of Bath academics about how they have embedded policy engagement as part of their research.
Dr Jo Daniels and policy engagement
Whether presenting findings in Parliament, or taking a secondment within government, learn about how Jo Daniels has built policy engagement into her work.
Dr Kit Yates and policy engagement
From mathematical modelling about Covid-19, to sharing his research via media and social media, learn about Kit's experiences of engaging policymakers.
Dr Poornika Ananth and policy engagement
Poornika is currently undertaking a secondment with the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) using her research to inform policy.
Dr Geoff Bates and policy engagement
Via 'TRUUD', Geoff is developing a research project alongside policymakers. Learn more about how he has engaged policymakers in this process.
Professor Christos Vasilakis and policy engagement
Christos has worked closely with healthcare policymakers across a range of areas, including in relation to Covid-19, maternity services and blood provision.
Dr Kate Woodthorpe and policy engagement
With a focus on end-of-life care, death and dying, and via an IPR sabbatical, Kate's research has generated policy impacts in Government and in Parliament.
Find out more and contact us
The Bath Policy Engagement Academy (BPEA) is a pilot project led by the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) to advance the University’s policy engagement activities. It is funded from the UKRI Policy Support Fund, ESRC and EPSRC Impact Acceleration Accounts.