Large language models and generative AI are offering an alternative to Google and again appear to have the potential to dramatically improve evidence synthesis, in an instant bringing together large bodies of knowledge and making it available to policy-makers, members of parliament or indeed the public.
The design and structure of remote and hybrid working strategies should work for the entirety of a workforce rather than for only non-disabled workers.
The UK's housing challenge involves the retrofit of around 28 million homes before the year 2050 – roughly equating to one retrofit every two minutes. Without a doubt, the most significant factor to this challenge is cost.
Are policy makers making the most of the wealth of available scientific knowledge? In this blog, we describe the application of data science methods on the bibliometric database of Elsevier’s International Centre for the Study of Research (ICSR) to analyse how scholarly research is being used by policy makers.
