Aims and objectives

Our wide-ranging and ambitious objectives for the ESRC IAA include:

• Transforming existing and emerging research by exploiting and building upon cross-disciplinary data and analysis, and by linking existing and emerging datasets to coproduce inter-disciplinary insights and solutions to local, national and global challenges;
• Initiating and implementing new mechanisms and opportunities to support new and responsive innovations and facilitate the translation of research into impact;
• Enhancing ECR capacities, with a focus on building skills, expanding competencies and growing networks;
• Creating an inclusive environment through a new and innovative infrastructure that can facilitate flexible, responsive and collaborative approaches with communities and other stakeholder groups, which is sustainable beyond the lifetime of the award;
• Understanding the perspectives of distinct and overlapping communities, and the relevance of place requires a reframing of knowledge mobilisation activities to reflect the heterogeneity of stakeholders and the effectiveness of place-based institutions.

Strathclyde has identified three broad priority thematic areas, aligned with our research strengths and the challenges within the communities we work alongside.

Theme 1: Inclusive Productivity, Prosperity and Growth

Theme 2: Transforming and Innovating Public Services

Theme 3: Society, Environment, and Global Development