Public engagement and research impact
Our ambition is for research to achieve impact through dissemination activities, and engagement with academic, professional and wider publics.
Our research is theoretically informed, empirically grounded and politically and socially relevant. Engaging with non-academic audiences to promote peaceful, fairer and more inclusive societies at the national and international level is central to what we do. Our findings, especially from problem-oriented projects, have a high potential for influencing public debates and policies.
Impact and public engagement is an important part of the research process in SPAIS. Researchers from the School make regular contributions in the media, in Britain and internationally, contributing to debate and disseminating their research. Some contribute to policy making by informing and shaping policy agendas, and feed into thinking within third sector organisations and NGOs. Others are public intellectuals, active as opinion leaders in public debates. We are also committed to collaborating with and integrating non-academic stakeholders throughout our research in order to facilitate co-production of knowledge.
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Marriage and Migration
Facilitating the integration of migrant spouses -
Building the Bridge
Enhancing spaces for Muslim women's engagement -
Changing attitudes towards British Muslims
Fostering a deeper understanding of multiculturalism and steering improvements in standards of equality -
Somali First
Promoting Somali-led development -
EUCIVCAP
Providing a comprehensive, comparative and multidisciplinary analysis of the EU's current conflict prevention and peacebuilding activities -
Building Maritime Security Capacity
Developing key guidelines and best practices for the coordination, programming and implementation of maritime security through the Safe Seas Network -
Good Parliament
Creating a more representative and inclusive House of Commons -
The Quipu Project
Participatory story-telling can help rebuild community in post-authoritarian societies
Leading social change
These are some of the impact and engagement stories achieved by SPAIS people:
- Leading development: Somali First
- Decoding gender in the media
- Sarah Childs receives PSA Special Recognition Award for work on making Parliament more gender-friendly
- Sarah Childs: All Aboard the Pink Battle Bus
- The Innocence Armenian Project supported by the Welsh Assembly
- Failures to address modern slavery in a global world
- Prof Tariq Modood work on multiculturalism featured on France TV
- Prof Sarah Childs presented 'The Good Parliament Report' on gender representation