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.
Upgrading our homes – why the UK needs new institutions to support the net zero transition, mobilising intelligence as much as money Download the report in PDF format Professor Sir Geoff Mulgan and Jeremy Williams All over the world countries are trying to shift their homes to more efficient, less carbon intensive sources – an essential part of strategies to get to Net Zero – and campaigners regularly take direct action to prompt more decisive action. But shifting homes to become more energy efficient is not easy, with barriers of finance, skill...
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.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the current cost-of-living crisis are sharp examples of how societal inequalities in the UK impact and effect policy responses by governments, and they also impress upon us the need to create more sophisticated evidence-based options.
