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Discover blogs, toolkits, guides and reports that explore and support academic policy engagement.

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09.03.2026

Regional Areas of Research Interest: Challenges, opportunities and next steps

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03.06.2026 Alison Clarke, Hannah Durrant and Rosie Havers

‘Let’s dig in and do the work!’: The way ahead for the UPEN CoP on knowledge mobilisation

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27.05.2026 Azadeh Fatehrad

Rethinking High Streets: Why stories matter as much as statistics

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20.05.2026 Chris Hewson

Building the case for local and regional Areas of Research Interest

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18.05.2026 Megan Streb, Rich Pickford

Tackling Enduring Policy Challenges: Lessons from a collaborative new approach

Engaging with local and regional authorities

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05.05.2026 Dennis Olsen

Bridging the Gap: Building practical policy partnerships between universities and local authorities

Engaging with local and regional authorities

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29.04.2026 UPEN

UPEN supports the launch of the North West Policy Partnership

Knowledge mobilisation & brokerage

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15.04.2026 Afzal Sayed Munna

From research to policy practice: building institutional capability for evidence-informed decisions

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08.04.2026 Daisy Forster and Olivia Stevenson

Investing in what makes academic-policy engagement work

Engaging with Government Policy Fellowships

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31.03.2026 José Rojas Alvarado

Five lessons on evaluating policy engagement

Evaluation and impact

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