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Last updated on Wednesday 17 May 2023 at 10:01am
Commissioned by Universities UK, UK Research and Innovation and the Wellcome Trust, the second phase of the Concordats and Agreements Review (CAR), brought together the initiative owners and the research and innovation (R&I) community to look for potential future alignments to increase influence, capacity, and efficiency across the landscape.
This second phase responded to the call from both initiative owners and the R&I community to explore potential alignments to help reduce workload and coordinate reporting, while also complementing the work of the Independent Review of Research Bureaucracy.
Concordats and agreements are a significant part of the landscape of frameworks and practices that contribute to research cultures and environments in which UK research takes place. These initiatives have grown organically, in response to challenges and opportunities, and cover a range of issues to support researchers and their activities.
Phase 2 involved facilitating conversations between the initiative owners and the R&I community to explore opportunities to increase impact and reduce unnecessary bureaucracy across the landscape.
The final publication contains an action plan which has been jointly designed and developed through these facilitated conversations. These will be co-owned and implemented by the initiative owners. Examples of these actions include aligning reporting and consolidation of data requests across the initiatives.
Download the Phase 2:
The project focused on initiatives that require research organisations to report on compliance, implementation etc. and/or that require research organisations to develop an action plan. The initiatives engaged in the project include:
CAR phase 1, for the first time ever, mapped and explored the collective role these varied initiatives have had in shaping research culture and environments across the UK. This was published in March 2022. This report represents an important and significant step forward for sector-wide collaboration and understanding on an important aspect of research culture in the UK.
You can download the Phase 1:
Key findings from Phase 1 included:
Over the course of the project, many colleagues have provided support and guidance. These include, but are not limited to:
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