In September, 2021 Dr Vicky Ward (University of St Andrews) and Dr Mark Monaghan (University of Birmingham) were jointly awarded a Parliamentary Academic Fellowship by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST). They will spend 12 months examining the global landscape of organisations, infrastructures and processes to help parliaments, congresses or other types of legislature access and harness academic knowledge. This is sometimes termed ‘legislative science advice’, ‘technology assessment’ or ‘knowledge brokering’ but also goes by many other names.
With academic backgrounds in knowledge exchange and evidence Vicky and Mark aim to map the global landscape of mechanisms linking parliaments with academic knowledge, understand how these different mechanisms operate, illustrate the range of alternative approaches to linking parliaments with academic knowledge and enable the practitioners involved to build global connections with one another.
If you would like to find out more about the project or how to get involved, please email wardv@parliament.uk or monaghanm@parliament.uk
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