Projects
H&P works with historians on the policy engagement elements of funded research projects. We broker exchanges with policy makers and shapers in order to make research accessible and to maximise its impact.
Policy influence is more likely to be effective if H&P is involved at the start of a research project or network when we can advise on what is practical and realistic given the topic, target audiences and time available.
Increasingly, historians seek our advice about policy engagement strategies to include in their applications to funders, particularly research councils which are concerned with public engagement and policy impact.
Any member of the H&P network can seek our advice – if we have the experience and contacts to assist, we will work with you to create an engagement strategy for your project. This strategy will be costed to cover H&P staff time.
Currently, H&P is involved in three projects:
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Historical child sex abuse
Given current concerns about the extent of sexual abuse in the past, how might historians contribute to our understanding of what went wrong and prevent future mistakes? This ESRC-funded project, undertaken by a team of researchers – Lucy Delap (Cambridge), Dr Louise Jackson and Dr Louise Settle (Edinburgh) and Dr Adrian Bingham (Sheffield), aims to inform and contextualise debates in Britain today by examining key moments over the last 100 years when abuse reached public awareness through media, criminal justice or policy.Read more
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Imagining markets
This AHRC-funded research network examines conceptions of Europe, Empire, Commonwealth and China in Britain’s economic future since 1900 – a tumultuous period characterised by debates about free trade v. protectionism, the decline of the imperial economy and rise of the European Union.Read more