Research England

so we as Innovate UK look after business innovation and the other research councils look after different elements.

So there's Research England which looks after research funding for universities, you've got Natural Environment Research Council which focuses on environmental issues, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Economic and Social Research Council.

the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

So it's every element and domain of the UK economy and the research thereof.

Music We're joined today by Beth's long-standing collaborator, Catherine DeRose, who is co-director of the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place at the University of Liverpool.

She's also co-lead of the Research England-funded Co-Production Futures Inquiry with Beth, a collective intelligence gathering exercise to mobilise change to address institutional barriers to co-produced and participatory research.

And she's written extensively on the politics and possibilities of co-production, including for the journal Nature.

And we're also joined by Tom's collaborator, Beth Chitekwe-Beattie, who is the executive director of the Slum Dwellers International Secretariat.

Well, and on that note as well, I think, you know, as Guy moves to become director, it's really worth taking a moment to reflect on Isabella and Kate's amazing contributions here as well, which I think carried that spirit forward.

Kate has played an absolutely pivotal part in I think really transforming the amount of funding the Mill gets from lots of different really key stakeholders, whether that's research bodies like Research England or the Arts Council.

And Isabel played an absolutely transformational role in the project called Our Country Lives, which redeveloped the Mill galleries into the ones you will have seen today if you visited since 2016.

So...

These people deserve more recognition, more support, career paths," whatever it is, and stuff is happening.

And so there's things like the Research Professional Futures, which is a massive Research England funded program, even though it's covering the whole of the UK.

But yeah, Research England funded program which is gonna look at some of this stuff, like career progression pathways and things like that for research adjacent folks.

There's also another Research England funded project, which is the Hidden Ref project, and they are also doing a lot of work around what they call hidden roles in research.

So it's exactly the same people, but how do we make sure that they're being recognized and acknowledged for the work that they do? So there's real money going into this now, and we all know that in the research world, where there's money, you know, if you want anything to really happen, you need to put money behind it.

Also as well, it's great to see these things happening because I'm not in a position to actually change anything.