The Australian Universities Accord highlights the need for strong community-university partnerships to advance research. This article stresses the role of social sciences and humanities in underpinning such collaborations and calls for secure employment for academic and professional staff, ensuring universities can sustain meaningful engagement and fulfill broader societal responsibilities.

How can research and initial teacher education institutions become active drivers of evidence-informed policy and practice? Drawing on data from the OECD’s 2023 Survey of Knowledge Mobilisation and international research, this paper offers considerations and examples on how to strengthen the role of research and initial teacher education institutions in knowledge mobilisation.

This global study shows how leading philanthropic foundations are harnessing monitoring, evaluation and learning activities to drive strategic decision-making and support efforts to drive systemic change. The findings are instructive in documenting key lessons from real-world practice and in providing a sense of trends and benchmarks. Ten key themes emerge from the study.

This policy brief examines how Research Infrastructures (RIs) can move beyond serving specialist scientific communities to play a broader role in addressing major societal challenges. Drawing on lessons from the COVID-19 response, it highlights the untapped potential of RI ecosystems to foster interdisciplinary collaboration, support innovation and inform public policy.

Proceedings of an event that brought together people with disability, advocates, policymakers, researchers, and leaders from the sector. The event, comprising short talks and group discussions, built on ideas from earlier events that focus on research led by people with disability, based on real experiences, and aimed at making a difference in policy and practice.