Paul Simmonds
Paul has been involved in policy consulting since the late 1980s and is specialised in studies related to research and innovation policy, predominantly carried out for clients in the UK, ranging from the AHRC to the Southwest Regional Development Agency, but also for public bodies in Brussels, the Hague, Stockholm and several further afield.
Notable studies include evaluations of the UK civil space programme for the former Department of Trade and Industry, the impact of the EU Framework Programmes (FP4, FP5 & FP6) in the UK for the former Office of Science and Technology (OST), an evaluation of the Cambridge MIT Institute (CMI) for DIUS and the Strategic Review of the Knowledge Transfer Networks for the Technology Strategy Board.
Recent evaluations are increasingly involving formal economic impact assessments, and studies here might include the recent economic impact assessment of the Department of Business and Enterprise's (BERR) automotive supply chains programme or One NorthEast's Strategy for Success scheme in the North East of England or the South West Regional Development Agency's Business Support programmes.
Paul has done a good deal of work on research in the HE sector too, including a recent evaluation of the Science Research Infrastructure Fund (SRIF2) for the UK research funding bodies. He is presently carrying out a lesson-learned review of the Research Excellence Framework (REF) Bibliometrics Pilot, for the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).
Paul also has a strong interest in the links between policy and research and is involved in a study for the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs exploring the links between is sustainability research and policy. Similarly, he is involved in a study exploring the impact of socio-economic research related to energy on European energy policy and directives. This work has encompassed many policy areas, from occupational health and safety to umbilical cord blood.
Paul has also led a succession of studies exploring international research cooperation, including a review of UK universities' strategic management of international research collaboration, for Universities UK, mapping international bilateral S&T collaboration between the UK and Japan, for the British Embassy in Tokyo, and an international review of the drivers of UK international engagement in science and innovation, for the Global Science and Innovation Forum (GSIF).
He originally trained as a marine engineer, he changed track rather dramatically in the early 1980s moving into the science policy domain by way of a BA and Masters from SPRU at the University of Sussex.
Paul is married with three teenage children and lives in Brighton. His hobbies include cycling and sailing.
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