Project Environment and Net Zero Domestic Retrofit: Driving Green Growth and Social Equity The transition to net zero presents a critical opportunity to reconsider the way in which our economy operates, especially in the context of stagnating productivity and economic growth in recent years. This project will focus on the housing sector and will explore the evidence for investment in retrofit being a mechanism through which wider benefits […] Read more Topics: Economy August 8, 2025
Project Research and Impact Practices of effective knowledge mobilisation The Wales Centre for Public Policy is a knowledge brokering organisation that mobilises evidence to inform policy and public service practice. While the benefits of evidence-informed policy making and practice are persuasive, the extent to which they have been achieved is contested. Both require effective approaches to knowledge mobilisation, particularly at the local level where […] Read more Research and Impact: The role of KBOs August 5, 2025
Project Research and Impact Leading evidence mobilisation We conducted a literature review on the factors which determine the effectiveness of evidence centres. This highlighted leadership as a key influence on their success but revealed that there has been very little empirical analysis of what leaders of evidence centres actually do, the skills they need, and how they acquire them. To help address […] Read more Research and Impact: The role of KBOs August 5, 2025
Project Research and Impact Impact of UK university policy engagement bodies Over the last decade, a plethora of bodies have emerged within universities in the UK and beyond that seek to broker evidence produced by their respective organisation to decision-makers. This phenomenon is linked with both the research impact agenda (for instance the Research Excellence Framework in the UK) and universities’ emphasis on civic missing and […] Read more Research and Impact: The role of KBOs August 5, 2025
Project Research and Impact Co-production of research with policy makers and public services As a knowledge brokering organisation, our activities involve working closely with decision-makers to determine their evidence needs and what we can deliver for and with them to meet those needs. We became interested in whether the popular concept of co-production could explain how we work, especially with decision-makers at the local level, and help inform […] Read more Research and Impact: Impact August 5, 2025
Project Research and Impact Academic experts’ experience of working with a KBO to mobilise evidence and engage with policy There is widespread belief that evidence use in policy making leads to more effective outcomes. However, various challenges associated with evidence-based policy making (EBPM) have been identified for both researchers and policy makers. There has been a call for research to be better designed and contextualised to respond to the challenge of a lack of […] Read more Topics: Using evidence Research and Impact: Impact July 30, 2025
Project Research and Impact Embedded impact researcher Within the context of a wider focus on the impact of Knowledge Brokering Organisations (KBOs), the Wales Centre for Public Policy is committed to understanding and maximising its own impact. The Embedded Impact Researcher project aims to understand the relationship between the WCPP’s knowledge mobilisation practices and its impact on the use of evidence in […] Read more Research and Impact: Impact July 30, 2025
Project Delivering probation services for Wales Building on the work carried out by WCPP on Building a Welsh probation service, the Welsh Government has recommissioned WCPP to carry out a follow-up project focusing on the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) model of local co-commissioning of services, one of the three areas investigated in WCPP’s earlier research. The Welsh Government is particularly interested […] Read more July 30, 2025
Project Sustainable local government for the future We have convened an independent working group on sustainable local government for the future. Read more July 30, 2025
Project Voluntary carbon markets Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are those in which carbon credits are voluntarily produced and traded for carbon offsetting purposes. Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) can help developed countries achieve climate goals by reducing emissions and by funding nature-based solutions and mitigation activities. However, VCMs are unregulated and criticised for facilitating the transaction of low-quality carbon credits […] Read more July 30, 2025
