The House of Commons International Development Committee has updated its Areas of Research Interest to support the Committee’s scrutiny of the UK’s international development strategy and funding.

Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) are lists of policy issues or questions. They are a way for select committees to express interest in seeing more research evidence in certain topics.

This ARI comes with several specific areas of interest aiming to further break down the broad area. These include:

• evaluating the impact of UK aid spending, as well as the UK spending through development finance institutions,

• the availability and quality of data on the UK Government’s contribution to international development,

• the impact of in-country refugee costs on wider UK Official Development Assistance (ODA) effectiveness.

This updates the Area of Research Interest published by the International Development Committee in 2021, on changes to the UK aid budget. The information provided by academics and other experts on existing and forthcoming research, and suggested scrutiny questions, helped to inform the Committee’s work and subsequent inquiries.

Academics at all career stages, research institutions, and experts are encouraged to register their interest in these ARIs, add their existing research in the topic areas to the ARI repository, provide their insights, and suggest questions that the Committee could be asking the Government.

Register your expertise and research insights on UK International development funding

There is one Area of Research Interest (ARIs) open for contributions to help to support select committees' scrutiny of government. You can register your interest and expertise in the following topic:

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Areas of Research Interest (ARIs) are lists of policy issues or questions. They are a way for select committees to express interest in seeing more research evidence in certain topics.

Academics at all career stages, research institutions, and experts are encouraged to register their interest in the ARI, add their existing research in the topic areas to the ARI repository, provide their insights, and suggest questions that the Committee could be asking the Government.

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DHSC Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22 | Public Accounts Committee | Deadline for evidence submissions: 6pm on Monday 13 February 2023

The Committee will question senior officials at the Department for Health and Social Care about its overall spending and priorities in 2021 to 2022, the second year of the pandemic in the UK.

The Committee has previously looked at issues including:

- the Government response to the pandemic, particularly the issues in procurement of test and trace services and personal protective equipment that continue to emerge; and

- the ongoing post-pandemic crisis in the NHS with lengthy wait times for elective, cancer and emergency care and strikes across the sector.

If you have evidence on these or other issues related to the Department’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2021-22 please submit by 6pm Monday 20 February.

Please have a look at the requirements for written evidence submissions and note the Committee cannot accept material as evidence that has been published elsewhere.

Building on the success of the 2021 cohort, UKRI is pleased to announce further funding for up to 50 UKRI Policy Fellowships. Embedded in a UK or devolved government host organisation or What Works Network member, affiliate member or associate member, these 18-month opportunities will see fellows co-design research with their host organisation to produce analysis informing government decision-making across a range of policy priorities.

For further details please see: Pre-announcement: UKRI policy fellowships 2023 - UKRI