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📣 Book your place for the upcoming PPS Training Session: "How to Write a Policy Brief", led by Gareth Giles, head of Public Policy | Southampton!

👉 Read more and register now: buff.ly/sVXEPvA
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🌟 Great to see Southampton archaeology expertise Professor Helen Farr and Professor Fraser Sturt inform the UKNC for the Westminster Hall debate on Tuesday, marking the 80th anniversary of UNESCO!

👉 Click here to watch the full debate: buff.ly/pSfJXq2
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November 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
We're recruiting for a Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise Fellow - mapping how universities broker knowledge between research and policy.

Apply here before 11 December: buff.ly/9QrUsIb

#HigherEducation #PolicyResearch #KnowledgeExchange #AcademicJobs #ResearchImpact #UPEN
Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise Fellow (PERI)
The Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) was set up in 2018 by approximately ten higher education institutions. It now has more than 110 UK university and policy members. Institutional leads…
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November 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🥳Thanks to those who attended the "Aligning your Research with the NHS 10-year Plan" workshop yesterday, delivered by PPS’s Nat Easton!

🗓️Book your place now for our next training session, "How to Win at Policy", led by the head of PPS Gareth Giles! buff.ly/3dNvWGS
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
📝 New UK Government Guide: Routes for Academic Engagement with Government

🙋 Feel free to contact us at [email protected] for help with any of these practical engagement approaches!

👉 Read the full guide here:
Routes for academic engagement with Government
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November 19, 2025 at 2:05 PM
🏥 New evidence from @unisouthampton.bsky.social shows that investing in registered nurses improves outcomes, while heavy reliance on temporary staff raises risk. The team sets out priorities for a sustainable NHS workforce.

Read more: buff.ly/hCOqMuy
November 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Evidence Week 2025 ✨

Prof Pamela Ugwudike and Prof Stuart Middleton met MPs to discuss the risks of sharing images of children online. They urged updates to current policies and highlighted new evidence on harmful sharenting.

🔗 buff.ly/NiqmL2i
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
📢 The Wales Centre for Public Policy is hiring a Research Associate!

🏛️ Join a team bridging research and policymaking on net zero, wellbeing, and inequality.

📍 Cardiff / Hybrid
🕒 Deadline: 20 Nov
💼 £41,064–£46,049

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November 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
⚖️ Join the launch of the Ministry of Justice Areas of Research Interest 2025, hosted by UPEN & UCL Public Policy.

Hear key MoJ priorities & explore ways to collaborate on justice policy research.

🗓️ Thursday 27 November
💻 Register here: buff.ly/88lEMeU
🔗 Join the LinkedIn event: buff.ly/7Gd761j
November 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🩺 New Policy Brief | Enhancing Paramedic Care at End of Life

The ParAid study, funded by Marie Curie is the first England-wide evaluation of paramedic practice at end of life, exploring the challenges they face while providing recommendations

To read: buff.ly/aLeYYi3
November 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🐟 Join us for World Fisheries Day 2025: From Plankton to Plate

📅 Wednesday 19 November 2025
🕕 18:00–21:00
📍 Sir James Matthews Building, Southampton (SO14 7NN)

🎟️ Register here to attend: buff.ly/8EnFicX
#WorldFisheriesDay #OceanScience #BlueEconomy #MarineResearch #Sustainability #Fisheries
November 12, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🎤 Learn to speak with confidence and clarity to policy audiences.

Join UPEN’s online event Public speaking for a policy audience

🗓️ 26 Nov, 13:00–15:00 GMT.

Build your skills and make your message land.

🔗 buff.ly/3Qy9rvD

#PolicyEngagement
November 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🌊 How do seafloor activities like bottom trawling affect the ocean’s carbon cycle—and climate policy?

🎧 In our latest #PolicyPod, we speak with Southampton’s @profbenthos.bsky.social & Prof. Susan Gourvenec about the NERC-funded C-Floor project.

🔗 Listen: buff.ly/rldAJt3
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
📣 Book your place for the upcoming PPS training session 'Aligning your research with the NHS 10-year plan', led by Dr. Nat Easton, Specialist Policy Officer for the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences.

👉 Read more and register now: buff.ly/FojNyvI
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
🎊 Thanks to all those who attended the 'How to Engage with UK Parliament' workshop on Wednesday, delivered by PPS’s Parliamentary and Comms Officer Tiffany Withers.

🗓️ More PPS training sessions are coming up in the next few weeks - book your place now! buff.ly/uXe5Csk
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🗞️ New Chief Scientific Adviser at DESNZ: Prof. Emily Shuckburgh!

With her background in climate science and leadership at Cambridge Zero, she will play a key role in the UK’s transition to a sustainable and net-zero future.

👉 Read the story here:
New DESNZ Chief Scientific Adviser appointed
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has appointed Professor Emily Shuckburgh to the role of Chief Scientific Adviser.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🌊 From the Seas
A University of Southampton and University of Western Australia Research Exchange Event
🗓️ Tuesday 11 November 2025
🕘 09:00–10:30 (UK) | 17:00–18:30 (Western Australia)
💻 Online (MS Teams)
Meeting ID: 383 944 588 541 35 | Passcode: Vz7QB6mm

All are welcome! 🌏
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This #EvidenceWeek2025 saw PPS' Tiffany Withers join MPs and researchers in Parliament with Prof. Ugwudike and Dr. Middleton, sharing insights from Harmful Sharenting in the UK. 👶

Watch this space for updates from Westminster 👀

Training sessions 👉 buff.ly/uXe5Csk
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A quiet bombshell in AI governance 💣🤖

Anthropic, AISI & the Turing Institute show you can poison a 13B model with just 250 docs, 0.00016% of its data.

If AI safety starts with clean data, the UK needs data provenance as infrastructure. 🔒🏛️

New from Alistair Sackley ↓

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November 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
📣 New Parliamentary Inquiry Response!
♀️ 'University of Southampton response on Reproductive Health in Girls and Young Women', using evidence from two UoS research projects!

👉 Read the full response here: buff.ly/4bSCT4z
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
🌟 Meet our new PPS Colleagues who have joined the team over the last few months!

👉 Read about Nat, Tiffany, Lily, Ryan, and the rest of the PPS team here: buff.ly/Ie28OXv

#PublicPolicy #UniversityofSouthampton #DigitalCommunications #SpecialistPolicy
November 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
📣Opportunity Closing Soon: Policy Fellow and Researcher - Economic Strategy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

📈 Salary: Grade 7: £39,424 - £47,779
⏱️ Deadline: 12pm Monday 10 November 2025.
🔗 See more details about the role and application process here: buff.ly/ZcqjPu9
November 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🤖 Speed Networking: Artificial Intelligence

Join researchers, policymakers & professionals exploring how AI can transform government & public services.

🗓️ 19 Nov, 12–1pm GMT (Online)
🎙️ Ann Fielding, DSIT

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#AI #GovTech #Networking
October 31, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Join the Mansbridge Heritage Project: Home Histories, led by Abri and the Southampton Institute for Arts and Humanities, as part of Arts and Humanities Day 2025.

📅 Saturday 8 November 2025
🕥 10:30 – 16:30
📍 Sir James Matthews Building

🎟️ Book your FREE tickets: buff.ly/w5140ek
#UoSArtsHumFest
October 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📣 There’s still time to sign up for PPS’ training session on How to Engage with UK Parliament!

🗓️ Thursday 6 November 2025 | 14:00–16:00
📍 Highfield Campus, Building 59 / Room 1257 (in person)
👥 Open to all staff and PGRs

👉 Read more and register now: buff.ly/rtTJ8fk
#PolicyTraining #ResearchImpact
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM