Opportunities for the Arts and Humanities research community to engage with Parliament (compiled 22 May 2025)

These are highlights from the opportunities compiled by UK Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange Unit (KEU) in their 22 May roundup with reference to Arts and Humanities disciplines. 

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All Arts and Humanities Researchers

  • Reminder: Join a new Community of Practice  (EOI deadline: 28 May 2025). If you currently set assessments related to policy-making, or otherwise train students in the skills necessary for communicating research to policy (or would like to!) then you might be interested in the Community of Practice which has been set up by POST, the KEU and UPEN, focussed on how research communication for policy can be used within assessments and curricula in Higher Education. At the moment, this involves filling in a short EOI. 

Archaeology

  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). Archaeology may give insight into multifunctional land-use in the past. If you are interested, please contribute via this form. 

Architecture and Design

  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). This POSTnote may be of interest, given possible insight from architecture and design for past, current and potential future multifunctional land-use, and how architecture and design might help meet the challenges posed by the competing demand for housing, infrastructure, food, energy and nature recovery, climate mitigation and adaptation. Contribute via this form. 

Classics

  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). This POSTnote may be of interest, given possible insight from Classics of multifunctional land-use in the past, and how ancient communities governed land-use. If you are interested, you can contribute via this form.  

Cultural Museum Studies

  • NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Contribute to a POSTnote on Violence Against Women and Girls in schools and among children and young people (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). This POSTnote will assess evidence on existing interventions, including whole-school approaches, multi-agency partnerships, consent education, teacher training, and safeguarding protocols. It is limited in remit to research evidence on violence against young women and girls/gender-based violence among children and young people. It does not cover evidence relating to forced marriages, trafficking, exploitation, child labour or FGM.  The POSTnote may be of interest to people working in cultural studies and gender and sexuality studies where that work relates to children and young people. Information on how to submit your contribution can be found in the main round up.   
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Winter mortality (Deadline to contribute: 4 June 2025). This POSTnote will summarise the factors that affect winter mortality and outline evidence for policies to prevent excess winter deaths. This might involve prescribing engagement with arts as a means of overcoming social isolation, and so research on that practice (and its effectiveness) might be relevant. Relatedly, you might have insight into the provision of “warm spaces” by cultural institutions, and the impact of this on winter mortality. Contributions can be made via this form.
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Misogyny: The Manosphere and Online Content, Women and Equalities Committee (Deadline for evidence submission: 6 June 2025). This inquiry may be of interest to researchers in cultural studies and pop culture as well as gender and sexuality studies. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline for evidence submission: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest to researchers in cultural studies and pop culture as well as (potentially) gender and sexuality studies. 
  • Reminder: signal your expertise in our call on behalf of Parliament’s Restoration and Renewal Programme for Cultural, Heritage and/or Tourism research and expertise (Deadline to contribute: 5 June 2025). Parliament’s Restoration and Renewal Programme is calling for researchers and experts with relevant research and expertise to make themselves known to the programme via this form. The programme seeks to tap into emerging research on the value of cultural and heritage institutions. The research will be used to contextualise and enrich the decision-making process undertaken by Members of both Houses as different options for restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster are considered.

Creative and Performing Arts, Drama, Theatre, Film, Music, Visual Arts, Digital Art and Design, Life- and/or Creative Writing and Arts Policy Management

  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Misogyny: The Manosphere and Online Content, Women and Equalities Committee (Deadline for evidence submission: 6 June 2025). This inquiry might benefit from insights from people working in, and researching, the creative and performing arts, as it asks “How prevalent are misogynistic views, attitudes and behaviour among young people today, particularly in educational settings? What examples are there of these views, attitudes and behaviours? In what other settings are such behaviours prevalent?”, for which knowledge about misogynistic content in art, music, film, TV etc. may be relevant. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Defending UK Airspace (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). This POSTnote may benefit from insight from people studying creative imaginings of airspace defence (e.g. in video games or films) and the impact this has on real-world defence design and expectations.
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Winter mortality (Deadline to contribute: 4 June 2025).This POSTnote will summarise the factors that affect winter mortality and outline evidence for policies to prevent excess winter deaths. This might involve prescribing engagement with arts as a means of overcoming social isolation, and so research on that practice (and its effectiveness) might be relevant. Relatedly, you might have insight into the provision of “warm spaces” by cultural institutions, and the impact of this on winter mortality. Contributions can be made via this form.
  • Reminder: signal your expertise in our call on behalf of Parliament’s Restoration and Renewal Programme for Cultural, Heritage and/or Tourism research and expertise (Deadline to contribute: 5 June 2025). Parliament’s Restoration and Renewal Programme is calling for researchers and experts with relevant research and expertise to make themselves known to the programme via this form. The programme seeks to tap into emerging research on the value of cultural and heritage institutions. The research will be used to contextualise and enrich the decision-making process undertaken by Members of both Houses as different options for restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster are considered.

Development Studies (and Area Studies)

  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Defending UK Airspace (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). Some Area Studies experts may have useful insight for this POSTnote from the experience, policy or practice of other countries. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Winter mortality (Deadline to contribute: 4 June 2025).This POSTnote will summarise the factors that affect winter mortality and outline evidence for policies to prevent excess winter deaths. Research from Area Studies about the cultural reasons for lower rates of winter mortality in colder European countries might make a useful contribution (via this form). 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). The POSTnote may also be of interest, given possible insight from area and development studies of multifunctional land-use, and its governance, in other countries, and how this is impacted by cultural, religious and/or historic factors. Contributevia this form.

Diplomacy, International Relations and War Studies

  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry on AUKUS, Defence Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 30 May 2025). This inquiry asks how far changes in the geopolitical situation have affected the assumptions which underpinned the partnership when it was announced in 2021, and whether these now present a threat to the success of AUKUS. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry on Cost of Maintaining the FCDO’s overseas estate, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 2 June 2025). This inquiry may be of relevance to scholars in diplomacy, especially questions of cost-efficiency. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry on Preventing Waste and Enabling a Circular Economy, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry is asking questions around why the INC-5 talks in November 2024 failed to reach an agreement on the Global Plastics Treaty, areas of agreement and disagreement between parties, and whether these can be overcome. Researchers in relevant areas of diplomacy and IR may have useful insight for the committee on these issues. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Defending UK Airspace (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). This POSTnote may benefit from insight from War Studies/IR scholars working from an Arts and Humanities perspective/discipline, for example on the history of policy and practice around this issue.

Gender Studies

  • NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Contribute to a POSTnote on Violence Against Women and Girls in schools and among children and young people (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). This POSTnote will assess evidence on existing interventions, including whole-school approaches, multi-agency partnerships, consent education, teacher training, and safeguarding protocols. It is limited in remit to research evidence on violence against young women and girls/gender-based violence among children and young people. It does not cover evidence relating to forced marriages, trafficking, exploitation, child labour or FGM.  The POSTnote may be of interest to people working in gender studies where that work relates to children and young people. Information on how to submit your contribution can be found in the main round up.   
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Misogyny: The Manosphere and Online Content, Women and Equalities Committee (Deadline for evidence submission: 6 June 2025). Researchers approaching gender studies from within an Arts and Humanities  perspective and/or with Arts and Humanities methodologies may be interested in this inquiry. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest. 

Geography (especially cultural and/or historical geography)

  • NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Contribute to a POSTnote on Violence Against Women and Girls in schools and among children and young people (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). This POSTnote will assess evidence on existing interventions, including whole-school approaches, multi-agency partnerships, consent education, teacher training, and safeguarding protocols. It is limited in remit to research evidence on violence against young women and girls/gender-based violence among children and young people. It does not cover evidence relating to forced marriages, trafficking, exploitation, child labour or FGM.  The POSTnote may be of interest to people working in cultural geography, where that work relates to children and young people and/or schools. Information on how to submit your contribution can be found in the main round up.   
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Addressing the risks from Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), Environmental Audit Committee (Deadline for submission: 26 May 2025). This inquiry asks specifically about the current understanding of the geographical and socioeconomic distribution of PFAs. This may be something cultural geographers have insight into which might inform the Committee’s line of questioning. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Misogyny: The Manosphere and Online Content, Women and Equalities Committee (Deadline for evidence submission: 6 June 2025).This inquiry may be of interest to cultural geographers.
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest to cultural geographers. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Winter mortality (Deadline to contribute: 4 June 2025).This POSTnote will summarise the factors that affect winter mortality. It will outline evidence for policies to prevent excess winter deaths. Some key factors in winter mortality (e.g. social isolation) may be of relevance to cultural geographers.Contribute via this form.

Heritage and Heritage Management

  • Reminder: signal your expertise in our call on behalf of Parliament’s Restoration and Renewal Programme for Cultural, Heritage and/or Tourism research and expertise (Deadline to contribute: 5 June 2025). Parliament’s Restoration and Renewal Programme is calling for researchers and experts with relevant research and expertise to make themselves known to the programme via this form. The programme seeks to tap into emerging research on the value of cultural and heritage institutions. The research will be used to contextualise and enrich the decision-making process undertaken by Members of both Houses as different options for restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster are considered.

History

  • NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Contribute to a POSTnote on Violence Against Women and Girls in schools and among children and young people (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). This POSTnote will assess evidence on existing interventions, including whole-school approaches, multi-agency partnerships, consent education, teacher training, and safeguarding protocols. It is limited in remit to research evidence on violence against young women and girls/gender-based violence among children and young people. It does not cover evidence relating to forced marriages, trafficking, exploitation, child labour or FGM.   It may be of interest to historians of education and/or social history whose work in this field relates to children and young people or schools.  Information on how to submit your contribution can be found in the main round up.   
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Misogyny: The Manosphere and Online Content, Women and Equalities Committee (Deadline for evidence submission: 6 June 2025). This inquiry may be of interest to cultural historians. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Governance and decision-making on major projects, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 10 June 2025). This inquiry may benefit from historical research into delivery (or non-delivery) of UK Government “mega-projects” to understand how information has fed into key decisions on projects, and lessons learned.
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into Call Lists, Procedure Committee (No deadline advertised). This inquiry may be of interest to political historians.
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Defending UK Airspace (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). This POSTnote may be of interest to historians looking at the history of defence. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Winter mortality (Deadline to contribute: 4 June 2025). This POSTnote will summarise the factors that affect winter mortality and outline evidence for policies to prevent excess winter deaths. Research from historians might help contextualise this issue, and/or raise awareness of long-standing causes (e.g. poor housing or underlying health conditions) in specific areas. Contribute via this form.
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). This POSTnote may also be of interest, given possible insight from history of multifunctional land-use, and the governance of land-use, in the past. Contribute via this form. 

Law

  • NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Contribute to a POSTnote on Violence Against Women and Girls in schools and among children and young people (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). This POSTnote will assess evidence on existing interventions, including whole-school approaches, multi-agency partnerships, consent education, teacher training, and safeguarding protocols. It is limited in remit to research evidence on violence against young women and girls/gender-based violence among children and young people. It does not cover evidence relating to forced marriages, trafficking, exploitation, child labour or FGM.  The POSTnote may be of interest to lawyers working on legal issues relating to violence against young women/girls and/or gender-based violence among children and young people. Information on how to submit your contribution can be found in the main round up.   

There are a number of Select Committee inquiries currently calling for evidence where specialists in specific areas of law (e.g. planning, transport, regulation, tax, water, and discrimination) may have expertise which is relevant. In addition, there are inquiries into the Global Plastics Treaty; government fees; the Autism Act; and Improving Family Court Services for Children which may also be of interest to lawyers and legal scholars. (More details below.)

  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Water Sector Regulation, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence:  26 May 2025). This inquiry is interested in understanding the effectiveness of current regulation. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Collecting the right tax from wealthy individuals, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 29 May 2025). This inquiry may benefit from insight from lawyers whose specialism is tax law. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Autism Act 2009, Autism Act 2009 Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 2 June 2025). This inquiry asks for input from researchers exploring how to support autistic people, particularly around questions relating to criminal and youth justice.
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Improving Family Court Services for Children, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 9 June 2025. This inquiry will ask questions relating to capacity to meet demand; a “whole systems approach”; and how to deliver an effective and efficient service.
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Improving local areas through developer funding, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 16 June 2025). This inquiry might be of interest to experts in planning law. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest to experts on extremism, Prevent, and online regulation. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Preventing Waste and Enabling a Circular Economy – Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). International lawyers may have valuable insight for the committee as it looks to understand what were the main reasons for the INC-5 talks in November 2024 failing to reach an agreement on a Global Plastics Treaty; what the main areas of agreement and disagreement are between parties; how these might be overcome; and what a successful outcome might look like.  
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Reducing NHS Waiting times for elective care, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 19 June 2025). This inquiry will hear from senior officials and NHSE and DHSC on governance and oversight of elective care transformation programmes. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Civil Service Pensions, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence:  23 June 2025). This inquiry in looking at the impact of the McCloud judgement and issues of age discrimination. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Government fees, charges and levies, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 26 June 2025). This inquiry is interested in how effectively government adheres to HM Treasury’s Managing Public Money guidelines in implementing changes; the legal authority of charging fees; and transparency. Case studies are likely to focus on charges around passports, visas, Companies House fees, driving licence fees, data protection fees, court fees, and gambling licenses. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Local Bus Services in England, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 3 July 2025). This inquiry is interested in risks and barriers to improvement of local bus services. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Resilience to threats from animal disease, Public Accounts Committee  (Deadline to submit evidence: 7 July 2025). This inquiry will question senior officials from Defra and representatives from other relevant bodies on Defra’s ability to establish and manage the structures, systems and governance processes needed to ensure England’s resilience to animal diseases, and whether England is prepared to respond to animal disease outbreaks and could effectively recover. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Defending UK Airspace (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). This POSTnote may be of interest, given potential links to human rights, international law and jurisprudence/philosophy of war. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). This POSTnote may also be of interest, given possible insight from lawyers on land-use governance. Contribute via this form.
  • Reminder: Devolved Legislature engagement opportunity: Promoting and Facilitating the use of British Sign Language (BSL) Area of Research Interest, Senedd Cymru (No deadline). This ARI specifically mentions the question of how effective the existing legislative framework is at recognising and protecting the rights of d/Deaf people and BSL users. Academics at all career stages, research institutions, and experts are encouraged to register their interest in this ARI, add their existing research and any planned research in this topic area to the ARI repository, and suggest questions that the Committee could be asking the Welsh Government in the short, medium, and long-term.

Library Studies

  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Winter mortality (Deadline to contribute: 4 June 2025). This POSTnote will summarise the factors that affect winter mortality and outline evidence for policies to prevent excess winter deaths. Insight into the provision of “warm spaces” by libraries and similar institutions, and the impact of this on winter mortality, may be of relevance. Contributevia this form. 

Languages and Literature

  • NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Contribute to a POSTnote on Violence Against Women and Girls in schools and among children and young people (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). TThis POSTnote will assess evidence on existing interventions, including whole-school approaches, multi-agency partnerships, consent education, teacher training, and safeguarding protocols. It is limited in remit to research evidence on violence against young women and girls/gender-based violence among children and young people. It does not cover evidence relating to forced marriages, trafficking, exploitation, child labour or FGM.  The POSTnote  may be of interest to people working in language and literature on issues around violence against women and girls, where that work relates to children and young people and/or to schools. Information on how to submit your contribution can be found in the main round up.   
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Misogyny: The Manosphere and Online Content, Women and Equalities Committee (Deadline for evidence submission: 6 June 2025). This inquiry may be of interest, particularly to researchers in gender and sexuality (and gendered language). 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology including AI, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest to people studying gender and sexuality, and/or extremist language, the framing of extremism, AI-generated communications, and online communication networks. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Defending UK Airspace (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). This POSTnote may benefit from insight from literature studies on how imaginings of airspace defence (e.g. in science fiction) affect real-world design and expectations. 

Linguistics

  • NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Contribute to a POSTnote on Violence Against Women and Girls in schools and among children and young people (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). This POSTnote will assess evidence on existing interventions, including whole-school approaches, multi-agency partnerships, consent education, teacher training, and safeguarding protocols. It is limited in remit to research evidence on violence against young women and girls/gender-based violence among children and young people. It does not cover evidence relating to forced marriages, trafficking, exploitation, child labour or FGM.  The POSTnote  may be of interest to people working in language and literature on issues around violence against women and girls, where that work relates to children and young people and/or to schools. Information on how to submit your contribution can be found in the main round up.   
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Misogyny: The Manosphere and Online Content, Women and Equalities Committee (Deadline for evidence submission: 6 June 2025). This inquiry may be of interest, particularly to researchers gendered language. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology including AI, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest to linguists. 
  • Reminder: Devolved Legislature engagement opportunity: Promoting and Facilitating the use of British Sign Language (BSL) Area of Research Interest, Senedd Cymru (No deadline). Academics at all career stages, research institutions, and experts are encouraged to register their interest in this ARI, add their existing research and any planned research in this topic area to the ARI repository, and suggest questions that the Committee could be asking the Welsh Government in the short, medium, and long-term.

Media and Communication Studies, and Journalism

  • NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Contribute to a POSTnote on Violence Against Women and Girls in schools and among children and young people (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). This POSTnote will assess evidence on existing interventions, including whole-school approaches, multi-agency partnerships, consent education, teacher training, and safeguarding protocols. It is limited in remit to research evidence on violence against young women and girls/gender-based violence among children and young people. It does not cover evidence relating to forced marriages, trafficking, exploitation, child labour or FGM.  The POSTnote may be of interest to researchers in media or communication studies whose work in this field relates to children and young people (e.g. violence girls experience via social media). Information on how to submit your contribution can be found in the main round up. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Misogyny: The Manosphere and Online Content, Women and Equalities Committee (Deadline for evidence submission: 6 June 2025). This inquiry into may of be interest, especially given its focus on social media, influencers, and online platforms. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology including AI, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Defending UK Airspace (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). This POSTnote may benefit from insight into how threats to UK airspace, and expectations of how they might be thwarted, are expressed, constructed and affected by media discourse.

Philosophy

  • NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Contribute to a POSTnote on Violence Against Women and Girls in schools and among children and young people (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). This POSTnote will assess evidence on existing interventions, including whole-school approaches, multi-agency partnerships, consent education, teacher training, and safeguarding protocols. It is limited in remit to research evidence on violence against young women and girls/gender-based violence among children and young people. It does not cover evidence relating to forced marriages, trafficking, exploitation, child labour or FGM.  The POSTnote may be of interest to philosophers whose work in this field relates to children and young people. Information on how to submit your contribution can be found in the main round up. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Misogyny: The Manosphere and Online Content, Women and Equalities Committee (Deadline for evidence submission: 6 June 2025). This inquiry may be of interest to philosophers studying misogyny and/or the impact of pornography on people’s views, attitudes and behaviour. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology including AI, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest to philosophers (including philosophers of language and political philosophers). 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Winter mortality (Deadline to contribute: 4 June 2025).This POSTnote will summarise the factors that affect winter mortality and outline evidence for policies to prevent excess winter deaths. This might be of interest to researchers working on the philosophy of death and/or dying (and the impact of related views on policy and people’s actions, both in England and elsewhere, particularly in colder countries). Contribute via this form.
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). This POSTnote may be of interest to philosophers given it is interested in how co-production may involve different types of knowledge and expertise. Contribute via this form.
  • Reminder: signal your expertise in our call on behalf of Parliament’s Restoration and Renewal Programme for Cultural, Heritage and/or Tourism research and expertise (Deadline to contribute: 5 June 2025). Parliament’s Restoration and Renewal Programme is calling for researchers and experts with relevant research and expertise to make themselves known to the programme via this form. The programme seeks to tap into emerging research on the value of cultural and heritage institutions. The research will be used to contextualise and enrich the decision-making process undertaken by Members of both Houses as different options for restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster are considered. Philosophers who work on ideas around value may have something useful to contribute. 

Political Theory

  • NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Contribute to a POSTnote on Violence Against Women and Girls in schools and among children and young people (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). This POSTnote will assess evidence on existing interventions, including whole-school approaches, multi-agency partnerships, consent education, teacher training, and safeguarding protocols. It is limited in remit to research evidence on violence against young women and girls/gender-based violence among children and young people. It does not cover evidence relating to forced marriages, trafficking, exploitation, child labour or FGM.  The POSTnote may be of interest to philosophers whose work in this field relates to children and young people. Information on how to submit your contribution can be found in the main round up. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Misogyny: The Manosphere and Online Content, Women and Equalities Committee (Deadline for evidence submission: 6 June 2025). This inquiry may be of interest to political philosophers studying misogyny, “the manosphere”, and/or the impact of pornography on people’s views, attitudes and behaviour. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest to political theorists working on extremism, online harm, and/or “mixed, unclear and unstable ideologies”. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). This POSTnote may be of interest to political theorists, given its interest in collaborative decision-making models (e.g. scholars who work on democracy, citizens assemblies, and forms of deliberative democracy), and also normative questions about land and land-use and the benefits of different uses and decision-making processes. Researchers in the history of political thought may consider insights from how land-use decisions have been made in the past (or forms of decision-making or collaborative use that have been suggested in the past). Contributevia this form.

Theology, Divinity and Religion

  • NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Contribute to a POSTnote on Violence Against Women and Girls in schools and among children and young people (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025).  This POSTnote will assess evidence on existing interventions, including whole-school approaches, multi-agency partnerships, consent education, teacher training, and safeguarding protocols. It is limited in remit to research evidence on violence against young women and girls/gender-based violence among children and young people. It does not cover evidence relating to forced marriages, trafficking, exploitation, child labour or FGM. The POSTnote may be of interest to theologians and/or researchers in religious studies whose work in this field relates to children and young people, including people who work on religious schooling/faith schools,  and/or religious’ groups involvement in the safeguarding of young people. Information on how to submit your contribution can be found in the main round up. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Winter mortality (Deadline to contribute: 4 June 2025).This POSTnote will summarise the factors that affect winter mortality and outline evidence for policies to prevent excess winter deaths. This might be of interest to researchers working on religious attitudes to, or understanding of, death and/or dying (and the impact of related views on policy and people’s actions, both in England and elsewhere, particularly in colder countries). Relatedly, insight into the provision of “warm spaces” by religious institutions, and the impact of this on winter mortality, may be of relevance. Contribute via this form. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). This POSTnote may be of interest, given possible insight from researchers into different religious systems about both collaborative decision-making, and land-use. Contributevia this form.

Science and Technology Studies

  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). Science and Technology studies experts working from an Arts and Humanities perspective or disciplinary background may have useful insights for this inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology including AI, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent.
  • Reminder: Contribute to a select committee inquiry into: Preventing Waste and Enabling a Circular Economy, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). Science and Technology studies experts working from an Arts and Humanities perspective may have valuable insight for the committee as it looks to understand what were the main reasons for the INC-5 talks in November 2024 failing to reach an agreement on a Global Plastics Treaty; what the main areas of agreement and disagreement are between parties; how these might be overcome; and what a successful outcome might look like. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Defending UK Airspace (Deadline to contribute: 30 May 2025). Some Science and Technology studies experts working from an Arts and Humanities perspective or disciplinary background (e.g. history, law or philosophy) may have useful insight for this POSTnote.