Description
This roundtable brings together academics from different institutions and stages of career to discuss how they and their institutions engage defence and security policy makers and implementers. The intent of this roundtable is to demonstrate how academics at different career stages can and do engage with government in different ways. We will cover traditional pathways such as direct secondments and sponsored research, but also more emergent partnerships such as direct involvement with government activity by academics outside of funded participation, ad hoc relationships that have spun out of more organised efforts and how all of these provide different opportunities for academics to engage policy figures. The members of this round table are drawn from a variety of backgrounds and will show the myriad different ways engagement can take place.
**** note for organisers - One of our participants (DB) has security concerns so would prefer to remain unlisted on the final programme. They have also requested that their participation be concentrated on the last day. The roundtable can progress without them but it would benefit if these concerns could be addressed.
