This briefing covers key findings for universities from CaSE’s Discovery Decade 2022-23 public attitudes study, which comprised four nationally-representative surveys polling a total of 18,000 people, and 14 focus groups. It includes statistics and the opinions of focus group participants, and identifies four key points:
- Universities’ role in the R&D system is not instinctively clear to the public
- University R&D is perceived as more altruistic, but slower to deliver results
- Universities and academics are trusted messengers about R&D investment
- Universities are ideally placed to respond to the public’s appetite to hear
