Analysis & publications

Our policy officer Camilla d’Angelo breaks down the long-awaited Independent Review of the UK’s Research, Development and Innovation Organisational Landscape led by Sir Paul Nurse.

CaSE’s 2022 Annual Lecture, given by Kim Shillinglaw, explored how the UK can forge a deeper and broader public connection with research and innovation.

The Government has published a Science and Technology Framework which contains 10 actions that the Government will focus on and sets out their vision and ongoing work for each action. We take a look at each action and offer our analysis and thoughts.

Polling shows the challenges facing research advocates—and how they could respond, writes Ben Bleasdale for Research Fortnight

There has been a lot going on in the last couple of weeks in R&D policy but the new Department for Science, Innovation and Technology is not yet a month old. So we’ve decided to take a closer look.

This report reflects the findings of a major study of public opinion conducted as part of the Campaign for Science and Engineering’s (CaSE) Discovery Decade programme.

CaSE spoke to organisations representing groups of higher education institutions to understand the role R&D, innovation and technology play in engagement with the public around universities’ role in society.

Earlier this week CaSE revealed that buried deep in an innocuous document called ‘Central Government Supply Estimates 2022-23’ was the information that the former Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) had surrendered £1.6bn that was allocated to Horizon Europe and Euratom association back to the Treasury.

Our policy team give their take on the formation of a new governmental Department for Science Innovation and Technology.

This report explores a curated selection of sector-led efforts to unite R&D advocates and shift the identity of R&D in people’s minds, to understand what worked and what we can learn for the future.

An unattributed summary of the roundtable co-hosted by Glasgow Science Centre and the Campaign for Science and Engineering in November 2022.

An unattributed summary of the roundtable co-hosted by the Campaign for Science and Engineering and the Open University on Wednesday 7th December 2022