{"id":300,"date":"2015-02-20T08:59:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T08:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nisr\/?p=300"},"modified":"2015-05-15T11:43:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T10:43:20","slug":"ideas-for-an-incoming-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nisr\/ideas-for-an-incoming-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideas for an Incoming Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle University is known around the world for its vision \u201cto <strong>be a world-class civic university<\/strong>\u201d. Our guiding principle \u2013 <strong>excellence with a purpose<\/strong> \u2013 helps us to focus on not just what we are good <i>at<\/i>, but what we are good <i>for<\/i>. Much of the research we do has relevance for policy and practice, and so the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/socialrenewal\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Institute for Social Renewal<\/strong> <\/a>tries to help bring colleagues\u2019 findings to the attention of policy makers and the general public. For example, in 2014 we organised an event in Westminster to showcase our Queens Anniversary Award winning work on rural economies and societies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Meeting colleagues from across the University and hearing about their research, I\u2019m struck by how much of what we discover has relevance for policy, and could help inform better decisions by government<\/em>,&#8221; says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/socialrenewal\/about\/staff\/profile\/mark.shucksmith\">Professor Mark Shucksmith OBE, Director of the Institute<\/a>. \u201c<em>We are working to find new ways in which to bring these findings into discussions about future policies, underpinning their evidence base<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the general election approaching, there is a heightened opportunity to contribute to public debates, campaigns and policy formulation, and to engage with voters and parliamentary candidates. <strong>With this in mind, Newcastle University academics are now taking part in a series of blogs during February and March to inform election debates and the political parties\u2019 thinking<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Examples of work that has already made a difference can be found on the Highlighted Projects section of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/socialrenewal\/highlightedprojects\/\">NISR website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tweet @Social_Renewal using #Ideas4anIncomingGovt to join in the conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newcastle University is known around the world for its vision \u201cto be a world-class civic university\u201d. Our guiding principle \u2013 excellence with a purpose \u2013 helps us to focus on not just what we are good at, but what we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nisr\/ideas-for-an-incoming-government\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5731,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,1],"tags":[5,81,80,78,79,75,76,77,6],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ideas-for-an-incoming-government","category-uncategorized","tag-civic-university","tag-community","tag-excellence-with-a-purpose","tag-general-election","tag-government","tag-higher-education","tag-impact","tag-policy","tag-social-renewal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nisr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nisr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nisr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nisr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5731"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nisr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nisr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nisr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nisr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nisr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nisr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}