Public Policy | Southampton (PPS)

The UN Secretary-General’s Scientific Advisory Board is running a short horizon-scanning survey for scientists and researchers across all fields.

It takes about 10 minutes and will help identify key emerging issues in science and technology!

Closes 19 Dec, 18:00 CEST.

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‼️ Don't miss our training session on Thursday, 'How to Write a Policy Brief', led by Head of PPS Gareth Giles.

🗓️ Thursday 11 December 12:00 - 13:00
📍 Highfield Campus 100/5015
🔗 Book your place: buff.ly/Cmlcqpj

📣 Upcoming Virtual CCPN Event!
⭐ CCPN Dialogues #4: Why are we talking about the cultural commons? A talk led by Dr Alice Borchi from the University of Leeds.

🗓️ Wednesday 17 December
🕑 12:00 - 13:00
👉 Read more, and register here: buff.ly/dKaGlFD

Five ways to make the ocean economy more sustainable and just How to shift the ‘grey’ ocean economy that prioritises the unequal extraction of resources towards a ‘blue’ economy that benefits all.

🌊 Susan Gourvenec and Wassim Dbouk have a new piece on how to build a fair and sustainable Blue Economy

🌍 They highlight five practical steps and why they matter for people, climate and industry.

Link here:

The new House of Lords report on home & hybrid working draws heavily on @unisouthampton.bsky.social research 🏛️💼

Findings show lasting shifts in worker preferences, wellbeing benefits ✨ & key inequalities to address ⚠️

More here 👉 buff.ly/t2ApMgt

📣 We're hiring!
PPS is looking for a Specialist Policy Officer to support policy engagement in the Faculty of Medicine.

Term: Part-time Fixed Term (0.6FTE, February-July 2026)
🗓️ Deadline: Wednesday 10 December 2025
👉 Learn more and apply here: buff.ly/y20eUiZ

📘 New @unisouthampton.bsky.social submission led by Dr. William E. Donald sets out why disability employment progress has stalled. Calls for long-term, person-centred support, better-trained advisers, and accessible digital tools and AI.

More here 👉 buff.ly/bLlwzKT

📣 Call for Contributors: AI Arts Festival 2026

🌐 The Web Science Institute is looking for contributors to the next AI@Southampton AI Arts Festival.

🗓️ Sunday 22 March 2026
📍 Winchester

👉 Apply by Monday 8 December: buff.ly/TEbpQmj
See our LinkedIn post for more details: buff.ly/KiKzYIE

📣 Don't miss out on our policy training series with PPS Head Gareth Giles!

Session #1: How to Win at Policy (4 Dec) 🏆
👉 Read more and book here: buff.ly/vwhhFR3

Session #2: How to Write a Policy Brief (11 Dec) 📝
👉Read more and book here: buff.ly/qEFHBxP

🚑 University of Southampton response by Dr Natasha Campling on extending medicines responsibilities for allied health professions

👉Read the full summary and recommendations: buff.ly/6Z1LREj
#ParamedicPractice #AlliedHealth #HealthcarePolicy

📣 Book your place for the upcoming PPS Training Session: "How to Write a Policy Brief", led by Gareth Giles, head of Public Policy | Southampton!

👉 Read more and register now: buff.ly/sVXEPvA

🌟 Great to see Southampton archaeology expertise Professor Helen Farr and Professor Fraser Sturt inform the UKNC for the Westminster Hall debate on Tuesday, marking the 80th anniversary of UNESCO!

👉 Click here to watch the full debate: buff.ly/pSfJXq2

Job Opportunity at the University of Southampton: Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise Fellow (PERI) The Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) was set up in 2018 by approximately ten higher education institutions. It now has more than 110 UK university and policy members. Institutional leads…

We're recruiting for a Knowledge Exchange and Enterprise Fellow - mapping how universities broker knowledge between research and policy.

Apply here before 11 December: buff.ly/9QrUsIb

#HigherEducation #PolicyResearch #KnowledgeExchange #AcademicJobs #ResearchImpact #UPEN

🥳Thanks to those who attended the "Aligning your Research with the NHS 10-year Plan" workshop yesterday, delivered by PPS’s Nat Easton!

🗓️Book your place now for our next training session, "How to Win at Policy", led by the head of PPS Gareth Giles! buff.ly/3dNvWGS

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📝 New UK Government Guide: Routes for Academic Engagement with Government

🙋 Feel free to contact us at ppuos@soton.ac.uk for help with any of these practical engagement approaches!

👉 Read the full guide here:

🏥 New evidence from @unisouthampton.bsky.social shows that investing in registered nurses improves outcomes, while heavy reliance on temporary staff raises risk. The team sets out priorities for a sustainable NHS workforce.

Read more: buff.ly/hCOqMuy

Evidence Week 2025 ✨

Prof Pamela Ugwudike and Prof Stuart Middleton met MPs to discuss the risks of sharing images of children online. They urged updates to current policies and highlighted new evidence on harmful sharenting.

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📢 The Wales Centre for Public Policy is hiring a Research Associate!

🏛️ Join a team bridging research and policymaking on net zero, wellbeing, and inequality.

📍 Cardiff / Hybrid
🕒 Deadline: 20 Nov
💼 £41,064–£46,049

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⚖️ Join the launch of the Ministry of Justice Areas of Research Interest 2025, hosted by UPEN & UCL Public Policy.

Hear key MoJ priorities & explore ways to collaborate on justice policy research.

🗓️ Thursday 27 November
💻 Register here: buff.ly/88lEMeU
🔗 Join the LinkedIn event: buff.ly/7Gd761j

🩺 New Policy Brief | Enhancing Paramedic Care at End of Life

The ParAid study, funded by Marie Curie is the first England-wide evaluation of paramedic practice at end of life, exploring the challenges they face while providing recommendations

To read: buff.ly/aLeYYi3

🐟 Join us for World Fisheries Day 2025: From Plankton to Plate

📅 Wednesday 19 November 2025
🕕 18:00–21:00
📍 Sir James Matthews Building, Southampton (SO14 7NN)

🎟️ Register here to attend: buff.ly/8EnFicX
#WorldFisheriesDay #OceanScience #BlueEconomy #MarineResearch #Sustainability #Fisheries

🎤 Learn to speak with confidence and clarity to policy audiences.

Join UPEN’s online event Public speaking for a policy audience

🗓️ 26 Nov, 13:00–15:00 GMT.

Build your skills and make your message land.

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#PolicyEngagement

🌊 How do seafloor activities like bottom trawling affect the ocean’s carbon cycle—and climate policy?

🎧 In our latest #PolicyPod, we speak with Southampton’s @profbenthos.bsky.social & Prof. Susan Gourvenec about the NERC-funded C-Floor project.

🔗 Listen: buff.ly/rldAJt3

📣 Book your place for the upcoming PPS training session 'Aligning your research with the NHS 10-year plan', led by Dr. Nat Easton, Specialist Policy Officer for the Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences.

👉 Read more and register now: buff.ly/FojNyvI

🎊 Thanks to all those who attended the 'How to Engage with UK Parliament' workshop on Wednesday, delivered by PPS’s Parliamentary and Comms Officer Tiffany Withers.

🗓️ More PPS training sessions are coming up in the next few weeks - book your place now! buff.ly/uXe5Csk

New DESNZ Chief Scientific Adviser appointed The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has appointed Professor Emily Shuckburgh to the role of Chief Scientific Adviser.

🗞️ New Chief Scientific Adviser at DESNZ: Prof. Emily Shuckburgh!

With her background in climate science and leadership at Cambridge Zero, she will play a key role in the UK’s transition to a sustainable and net-zero future.

👉 Read the story here:

🌊 From the Seas
A University of Southampton and University of Western Australia Research Exchange Event
🗓️ Tuesday 11 November 2025
🕘 09:00–10:30 (UK) | 17:00–18:30 (Western Australia)
💻 Online (MS Teams)
Meeting ID: 383 944 588 541 35 | Passcode: Vz7QB6mm

All are welcome! 🌏

This #EvidenceWeek2025 saw PPS' Tiffany Withers join MPs and researchers in Parliament with Prof. Ugwudike and Dr. Middleton, sharing insights from Harmful Sharenting in the UK. 👶

Watch this space for updates from Westminster 👀

Training sessions 👉 buff.ly/uXe5Csk

A quiet bombshell in AI governance 💣🤖

Anthropic, AISI & the Turing Institute show you can poison a 13B model with just 250 docs, 0.00016% of its data.

If AI safety starts with clean data, the UK needs data provenance as infrastructure. 🔒🏛️

New from Alistair Sackley ↓

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📣 New Parliamentary Inquiry Response!
♀️ 'University of Southampton response on Reproductive Health in Girls and Young Women', using evidence from two UoS research projects!

👉 Read the full response here: buff.ly/4bSCT4z