These opportunities and resources have been compiled by UK Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange Unit (KEU) to help you understand how to engage with Parliament as a researcher.

Take a look at the KEU’s webhub of information and resources for researchers. 

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Select committees currently accepting written evidence (compiled 22 October 2025)

Please click the title of any inquiry listed below to be taken to a summary of that inquiry and the full call for evidence. Remember that you don’t have to answer every question posed in each call for evidence.

New calls for evidence:

All other inquiries currently accepting written evidence:

Why should I engage? Submitting evidence to a select committee can lead to further engagement, such as an invitation to give oral evidence. Your submission will be published on the Committee webpage. Your insights may inform the Committee’s conclusions or recommendations it makes to the Government. Find out more about why to engage with Parliament here. And find more on engagement for impact here.  

What should I expect? All evidence will be read and taken into consideration, but you may not receive a direct response from us or the Committee. To stay informed, we encourage you to follow the progress on the respective committee / inquiry webpages.

More information: all inquiries currently accepting evidence are found here  
Guidance on submitting evidence to Commons select committees
Guidance on submitting evidence to Lords select committees

Policy communication training: the POSTnote

POSTnotes are comprehensive, trusted, and impartial briefings on new and emerging research areas from across science and the social sciences. They inform parliamentary debate, support decision-making, and help parliamentarians scrutinise government policy. 

The recording of our recent training on POSTnotes, and how they can be used as a policy communication exercise is now available. Watch the session on YouTube to hear the Lord Mair CBE (Member of the House of Lords), Oliver Bennett MBE (Head of POST), and the KEU’s own Sarah Carter-Bell (Knowledge Exchange Manager introduce POST’s flagship briefing.

The session explains how POSTnotes are prepared and the techniques they use to communicate complex scientific topics to non-specialist audiences. It will help course leaders understand what POSTnotes are, how they are researched and written, and suggest considerations when assessing students’ mock POSTnotes.

You can also find further training videos for the research community on a range of topics on the Parliament website.

Why should I engage? Our training sessions for the research community offer a unique opportunity to learn more about the UK Parliament and how it uses research from the perspective of Parliamentarians and parliamentary staff. The sessions also contain practical information and advice on how to engage with Parliament as a researcher.

More information: You can find our full list of  recordings of previous training sessions here.

Parry on Parliament: the Budget, Pt. I

On  26th November, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, will deliver her second autumn budget to parliament. This is one of the key fiscal events in the parliamentary calendar, which provides a statement of the Government’s fiscal and economic policy for the year ahead and how these relate to key tax and spending decisions. After she has presented her budget to the House of Commons, it moves into a stage of scrutiny. The independent watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, will provide a detailed costing of the budget, including an analysis of how it will affect the economy and public finances.

So what? The Treasury Committee will have taken evidence from expert witnesses in the weeks ahead of the Budget, including from academics. Given the fast turnaround of a government’s budget, the opportunities for academic engagement are pretty tight. Interested commentators should have their analysis (ideally a blog) ready to go as soon as possible, which they can point committee staff towards. The Autumn budget reaction parliamentary briefing paper also picks up on stakeholders’ analysis, so having an opinion piece available online can feed into this.

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Thanks to Parliament’s Thematic Research Lead on Business, Economics and Trade, Dr Jane Parry, and our excellent colleagues in the Commons Library for lending their wisdom to today’s fact.