Significant steps have been made in the establishment of the National Disability Research Partnership, an ambitious and complex undertaking. This independent evaluation of the NDRP Establishment Phase provides feedback on achievements and suggestions for the NDRP's development.

The Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) Program is designed to foster collaboration between industry and research. This evaluation sought to assess the Program's success in meeting its stated policy objectives by reviewing the Program’s high-level design and short- and long-term outcomes. It finds that the Program is working well, delivering on its objectives and meeting an...

Responding to calls for increased evidence-informed public health and increased impacts from research, the aims of this policy evidence brief are to present the main barriers to research evidence translation and utilisation in public health, and explore strategies that can address these barriers.

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the nature of research – while it has increased the demand for evidence to inform decision-making, it has further disrupted both the policy-influencing and engagement activities that would usually accompany such research. This report is based on an analysis of 90 research projects supported by the Covid Collective, COVID CIRCLE...

The OECD has launched the 'Strengthening the Impact of Education Research' project. This publication reports on the first phase of the project. It maps the various structures, processes, actors and relationships that reinforce the quality, production and use of education research in policy and practice.