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Ideas for a greener Scotland

Helping new voices from the academy to engage with policymakers

What is SPRE?

Ideas for a happier & fairer Scotland

Building capacity to participate in the policy process

How do we do it?

Ideas for a smarter Scotland

Providing training, mentoring & developing digital tools

What can we do for you?

Policy and Research Working Together

The Scottish Policy & Research Exchange is a network of researchers and officials based within universities, research centres and policy making institutions across Scotland working together to improve policy outcomes.

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Helping scholars connect with policymakers

Enhancing the Impact of Research

SPRE provides early career researchers and PhD candidates, especially within the social sciences, with opportunities to apply their research to current policy problems and receive REFable recognition for doing so. The network also arranges mentoring and training opportunities for researchers wanting to better understand the policymaking process.

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Helping officials reach out to academics

Expanding the Evidence Base

SPRE helps officials in the Scottish Government, Scottish Parliament, Audit Scotland and all of Scotland’s local authorities pose current policy questions to academics. In doing so, it aims expand their access to evidence and increase the range of expert voices.

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How are we working during the Coronavirus crisis?

SPRE  keeps delivering training & support to policy professionals and scholars online. We regularly organise free webinars and online training for research groups and departments across all 19 Scottish Higher Education Institutions. We also host online discussion groups for policy professionals wanting to engage with scholars on a particular policy question or challenge.

Our email is also open to any scholar or policy professional wanting some advice or support on how to best engage with the academic/policy spheres.

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Latest news

SPRE's March newsletter

SPRE regularly shares with its network training events, fellowships & engagement opportunities. This is what we shared with our network in March.

March newsletter

Online training opportunities

21st of April

Evidence for policy: securing influence through research

With Dr Rebekah Widdowfield, Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

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Our Blog

Estranged students in higher education: policy thoughts in context

Written on: 30 Sept 2019

Posted on: 19 February 2020

Dr Cristina Costa, Assistant Professor at Durham University & Professor Yvette Taylor, University of Strathclyde
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Children most notable in national planning policies through their absence. What needs to change?

Written on: 16 December 2019

Posted on: 27 February 2020

Dr Jenny Wood, Research Associate in I-Sphere

Scottish Budget 2020-21 – preliminary analysis

Written on: 06 February 2020

Posted on: 10 February 2020

Fraser of Allander Institute