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Gareth Giles

Programmes Co-Lead (People) UPEN Vice Chair He/Him

Giles has worked in the nexus of policy making and academic research for 20 years. As Head of Public Policy | Southampton, the University of Southampton’s public policy knowledge exchange unit, he is responsible for ensuring the delivery of its mission to ‘enhance the national and international public policy impact of research conducted at the University of Southampton’.

Within UPEN Programmes he is Co-I for workstream 1 with responsibility for developing and piloting the Policy Engagement Readiness Index (PERI). If you would like to learn more about how you might participate in the development of PERI please reach out for a briefing.