Areas of Research Interest (ARI) are public expressions of research priorities and evidence needs. Since 2020 Policy Fellows from Capabilities in Academic-Policy Engagement (CAPE), a multi-partner project led by UCL, have been piloting ARIs in policy organisations where they were not used previously, from Parliament to combined authorities. Here, they talk about the the value of ARIs and the difference they have made in increasing the diversity of researchers that policy organisations engage with.
