Library guides: Research Impact: Engaging with Parliament and the media

Engaging with parliament

As a researcher, you may want to engage with Parliament in order to gain greater impact for your work.

You can access resources about engaging with Parliament as a researcher on the Knowledge Exchange Unit webhub.
Contact the Knowledge Exchange Unit at keu@parliament.uk with queries about researcher engagement with Parliament or email a short introduction to your research and the Knowledge Exchange Unit (KEU) will pass it on to the relevant subject specialist in the House of Commons Library.

The UK Parliament has produced a guide entitled 'Research Impact at the UK Parliament', explaining:

There is also a webpage on Parliament and the Research Excellence Framework

The POST website includes upcoming briefings, newsletter sign-up and the contact details for specialists.

If you would like to find out how your work has been used in Parliament, there are many sources of Government and official publications which you can look at. For example:

Hansard
The official report of all parliamentary debates.
UK Parliament
Contains details of work by Select Committees, and written statements made to Parliament.
Government publications
This webpage is a good source of Government publications, which you can browse by topic, publication type and department.
Parliamentary Search
Track engagement of the school or faculty you support by searching through all indexed parliamentary material using Parliamentary Search.

City St George's Communications Team collates mentions of City St George's and its academics in parliamentary reports. They also have access to a database of contacts in Westminster and details of business being conducted there, including Select Committees, All Party Parliamentary Groups and Calls for Evidence to these. Details of City St George's Communications Team can be found in the section below.

Communicating your research to a wider audience

The Press Office works with academics at City St George's to help to promote their research and expertise to a variety of key audiences. The team works with academics to help translate research findings into accessible stories, press releases and features for use by the media and in City St George's communication channels.

More information is available to City St George's staff via the Communication Team's pages on the Staff Hub.

There is also a dedicated Senior Communications Officer for each School. Academics at City St George's are welcome to get in touch with them to ask about support with the dissemination of their work via the media or other channels and about the collation of media coverage already achieved.