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Focus Area 3
Securing investment
• Identify and monitor the current level of
investment in research evaluation and
associated audit activity.
• Secure Departmental Commitment
to support the implementation of this
strategy.
• Support the sharing of information, skills
and opportunities in securing access to
and responding to funding sources and
bids.
• Support and improve the quality
of research applications through
collaborative partnerships with academia
and other researchers to secure funding
for social work and social care research.
• Lobby funders to influence decisions
about investment in high quality research
evidence related to Northern Ireland.
What we will do
Information
Skills
Lobbying
Collaborative
Working