We are passionate about employing our knowledge and skills to help policy makers and service providers to develop evidence-based and innovative enterprise support. Services we have conducted include:

• Rapid policy reviews
• Rapid evidence reviews
• Local area analysis and research
• Action research
• Rapid and longitudinal evaluations (local and national)
• Support in bid writing
• Policy action planning
• Policy modelling

We have worked with regional and international policy makers in the UK, India, Germany and the European Commission to help to develop and inform new ideas in policy making.

Current innovations include use of Web 2.0 technology to reach a wider audience with our expert knowledge and policy insights. For example, our Tea with a Prof Series is designed to support implementation and design of policy for the UK regions, with online podcasts available internationally.

We are also keen to learn from policy makers and practitioners – to update our knowledge of the policy/practice context and to ensure we pitch policy ideas that are feasible.