Home Office research development and innovation strategy: one year on

Home Office research development and innovation strategy: one year on – event round-up

One year on from the launch of the Home Office’s Research, Development and Innovation (RDI) Strategy, this session highlighted the progress made in putting RDI at the centre of the Department’s policy and operational work.

The Home Office team provided an update on how RDI is supporting key national security, border security and public safety priorities, including real-world examples of successful research and technology interventions over the past year.

Attendees heard how the Home Office is strengthening its scientific and analytical capability, improving the way it evaluates research impact and reforming the governance of research, development and innovation across the Department.

The session outlined next steps for Strategy implementation, including workforce capability, evidence culture and new opportunities for industry engagement. This included the announcement of a new challenge portal, allowing industry to directly engage with where the Home Office sees the greatest opportunities for partnership across research, technology, data and innovation to support national security and public safety outcomes.

With the Strategy in place until 2030, we are looking forward to hosting further collaborative sessions in the future.

A recording of the session can be found below:

Raya Tsolova

Senior Programme Manager, techUK

Raya Tsolova is a Programme Manager at techUK.

Prior to joining techUK, Raya worked in Business Development for an expert network firm within the institutional investment space. Before this Raya spent a year in industry working for a tech start-up in London as part of their Growth team which included the formation and development of a 'Let's Talk Tech' podcast and involvement in London Tech Week.

Raya has a degree in Politics and International Relations (Bsc Hons) from the University of Bath where she focused primarily on national security and counter-terrorism policies, centreing research on female-led terrorism and specific approaches to justice there.

Outside of work, Raya's interests include baking, spin classes and true-crime Netflix shows!

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