SRHE hosts the UK Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange Unit (KEU) and Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST)

The Knowledge Exchange Unit (KEU) works with higher education and beyond to support the exchange of information and expertise between researchers and the UK Parliament. This session, facilitated by Natasha Mutebi (Social Science Adviser, Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST)), aims to brief attendees on how to understand and engage with policy. It will also provide insights into the work POST undertakes to bridge gaps between research and policy, and how researchers can contribute to this work.

This session is open to researchers from all career stages across the humanities and social scientists. To find out more about the Knowledge Exchange Unit and access further resources, please click here.

Programme

The session is structured into two parts:

1. Engaging with policy

This section will include information on select committees, REF-able impact, and KEU’s mobilisers network.

2. POST’s key messages

This section will summarise and explain POST’s key activities and priorities, and will provide information on how to contribute to these (e.g. writing a policy brief).

Facilitator

Natasha (Tash) Mutebi is a Social Science Adviser for the Parliamentary Office of Science & Technology (POST). You can find some of Tash’s POST briefings by clicking here.

Natasha Mutebi has worked across various teams at the UK Parliament including in the Commons Library and now POST. As a social science advisor Natasha helps embed social science methods and topics in POSTs work whilst providing robust and impartial evidence for Parliamentarians. Her academic background is in Global Public Health and Policy.