How can funders encourage more effective research uptake? Exploratory Workshop Wellcome Trust 16 December 2014

Objectives: 2  Share experience on how research funders can encourage more effective research uptake  Explore the appetite and scope for future collaboration in developing this agenda

Plan for the day MORNING Setting the context: Louise Shaxson (RAPID) Sharing experience: the funder’s perspective Coffee Sharing experience: the practitioner’s perspective AFTERNOON Lunch Identifying common threads Where next for this agenda? Wrap up/close 3 PARKING LOT

Sharing experience : the funder’s perspective 4  Han van Dijk (NWO)  Tarah Friend (DFID)  Nina Marshall (ESRC)  Amy Kirbyshire (CDKN)  Val Snewin (Wellcome Trust)

Sharing experience: the practitioner's perspective 5  Josine Stremmelaar (HIVOS)  Caroline Cassidy (DEGRP/EPG)  Vanessa Nigten (The Broker) + Evert-Jan Quak (Knowledge Platform Food & Business)  Rosalind Goodrich (IIED)  James Georgalakis (IDS)

Identifying common threads GroupApproach 1Building uptake into individual projects 2 Creating knowledge hubs to coordinate efforts within research programmes 3 Supporting knowledge intermediaries/brokers that work across multiple programmes 4Building capacity to use research evidence

Questions to address 7  What are the strengths/what situations does it work best?  Challenges/limitations?  How well can it connect with demand?  How to balance excellence & impact?  What should funders do differently to support this?

Where next? 8  Is there an appetite to pursue this discussion further?  What would be most useful?  Who else to engage?  Who would like to lead/fund this?  Immediate next steps?