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RESEARCH PRIORITIES: HOW TO INFLUENCE THEM

RESEARCH PRIORITIES: HOW TO INFLUENCE THEM. Adrian Alsop, Director for Research. RESEARCH PRIORITIES: HOW TO INFLUENCE THEM E xcellence With Impact. RCUK strapline, but likely to apply to most funders of research on education.

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RESEARCH PRIORITIES: HOW TO INFLUENCE THEM

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  1. RESEARCH PRIORITIES: HOW TO INFLUENCE THEM Adrian Alsop, Director for Research

  2. RESEARCH PRIORITIES: HOW TO INFLUENCE THEM Excellence With Impact • RCUK strapline, but likely to apply to most funders of research on education. N.B. impact is not about projects whose outcomes are specified in advance. • that is not research, by definition.

  3. RESEARCH PRIORITIES: HOW TO INFLUENCE THEM • Impact More Likely If Research is Co-Produced • consider involvement of learning, teachers, parents, governors, local authorities, government. • funders making increased use of public engagement in commissioning processes, drawing on positive experiences of research on health.

  4. RESEARCH PRIORITIES: HOW TO INFLUENCE THEM • Funders Rarely See Priorities in Disciplinary Terms • research on education has always drawn on insights from a range of disciplines, keep it that way! – the seven contributions earlier today illustrate – but do not exhaust -the potential.

  5. Innovation Attracts Funders • more of pretty much the same, is unappealing. • innovations that are attractive will vary between funders – for ESRC, theory, method (mixed methods!), data sources, international comparative (imaginative not descriptive). • you should expect/challenge funders to recognise innovative research has its risks but funders should have appetite for that.

  6. Pitch To Funders Stated Priorities • For ESRC: (1) • impact through world class research • impact through skilled people • impact through world class infrastructure • impact through international leadership • impact through partnerships

  7. Pitch for Funders Stated Priorities • For ESRC: (2) – prompt and participate in competitions under our key challenges for social science (n.b. no longer just key research challenges). • Global Economic Performance, Policy and Management • New Technology, Innovation and Skills • Understanding Individual Behaviour • Health and Well-being • Social Diversity and Population Dynamics • Environment, Energy and Resilience • Security, Conflict and Justice

  8. RESEARCH PRIORITIES: HOW TO INFLUENCE THEM Adrian Alsop, Director for Research

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