Innovation Caucus

About us

The Innovation Caucus supports sustainable innovation-led growth by promoting engagement between the social sciences and the innovation ecosystem.

Our members are leading academics from across the social science community, who are engaged in different aspects of innovation research.

We connect the social sciences, Innovate UK and the ESRC, by providing research insights to inform innovation policy and practice.

We champion the role of social science in innovation and enhance its impact. This project is funded and co-developed by Innovate UK and the ESRC.

To ensure that social science insights support sustainable, innovation-led economic growth.

To ensure innovation programmes are informed by social science research findings
To enhance the impact of social science by connecting academics with strategists, analysts and technologists at Innovate UK
To support the ESRC to embed innovation more deeply into its activities
To facilitate closer collaboration between Innovate UK and the ESRC
To promote engagement across UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

We work collaboratively to share knowledge and expertise, strengthen relationships and build a community of practice.

We do this in 5 key ways:

We recruit new members periodically.
Benefits for members include:

Academic Lead

Project Manager

Deputy Director – Strategy,
Innovate UK

Senior Portfolio Manager,
ESRC

Innovate UK

Deputy Director – Innovation and Impact,
ESRC

Applications are invited from highly motivated PhD students to undertake a three month, full time internship (or up to 6 […]

Opening keynote: ISCF & the Social Sciences in Wave 3 – Dan Hodges, Deputy Director, Strategy – Innovate UK After […]

24th Aug 2019 09:51 Another #ISCF announcement - this time on the #FutureOfFlight with lots opportunity for #SocialScience https://t.co/oZMCXEjxy0
20th Aug 2019 20:59 RT @Mel_Knetsch: Only a few days left to apply for this @InnovCaucus research assistant post.... https://t.co/VjTyd9zswj