British Academy Policy Centre
The Centre was established in October 2009 with matching funding provided by the Economic and Social Research Council and gained further funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council from March 2010. It oversees a programme of activity engaging the expertise within the humanities and social sciences to shed light on policy issues.
It produces substantive reports making recommendations on public policy and practice. These include research on families and public policy, published in February 2010, and on the history of the family, published in October 2010. The Centre also produces topical research syntheses, summarising existing literature. These include work on electoral systems published in March 2010 and on constituency boundaries, published in September 2010.
The Centre’s activities also include organising policy events and discussions, liaison with learned societies and Higher Education Institutions and promotional work on the impact and profile of humanities and social science research.
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