Arts and humanities research has an ‘enormous contribution to make to public policy-making. This is the view of Jonathan Breckon, Director of Policy and Public Affairs at the AHRC, in a podcast interview given to mark the launch of a new survey of all AHRC award holders.

With the Research Excellence Framework promising to reward academics whose work makes an impact on the development of public policy, the survey was designed to understand the range and extent of UK’s arts and humanities researchers’ contribution in this area. With many researchers already making such a contribution in areas as diverse as human rights, genetic discrimination, medical ethics, radicalisation and much more, the survey is, says Jonathan Breckon, the first step in the AHRC’s developing role as a broker between researchers and policy-makers and its ‘showing off of what the role of the arts and humanities researchers is and can be...’

 A transcript of this podcast is also available (pdf 38kb)

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