The IOE Research Development Team and Research Engagement and Impact Committee are bringing experts, senior academics, doctoral students and early career researchers together online to focus on making authentic impact a key consideration in research projects from their inception.

Join us for an insightful talk with P rofessor Russell Viner, a paediatrician and professor at the University College London (UCL) Great Ormond St. Institute of Child Health, working clinically at University College London Hospitals (UCLH), who has been appointed Chief Scientific Advisor (CSA) for the Department for Education.

This session will be chaired by the IOE Pro-Director and Vice-Dean Research, Professor Lynn Ang, and the Chair of the IOE Research Engagement and Impact Committee, Dr Becky Taylor. It will provide key information for researchers on the role of the Chief Scientific Advisor at the Department for Education. It will also discuss Areas of Research Interest (ARIs), which give details about the main research questions facing government departments.

Participants will hear how the CSA delivers independent and impartial scientific advice to ministers and policymakers across the DfE portfolio, and ensures that science and engineering advice is robust and high quality. They will gain an understanding about the CSA's responsibility for science strategy within DfE and involvement in cross-government science policy through the CSA Network.

Attendees will be encouraged to consider the benefits of policy engagement through ARIs. ARIs aim to improve how government departments align scientific and research evidence from academia with policy development and decision-making; engage with researchers; access stronger policy evidence bases at better value for money and share research commissions.

There will be time for questions and discussion.

This event is of particular interest to researchers, professionals and policy makers. All are welcome.

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IOE Impact Meet-Ups: Prof Russell Viner, Chief Scientific Advisor for DfE