Research Agenda.

Research is a promise – spend money today, make tomorrow better, and discover some brilliant things along the way. Everything else – the acronyms, the institutions, the processes – is machinery for keeping that promise. Research Agenda covers whether it is being kept.

Too much coverage stops at whose income is up or down. The interesting debate is not only what was decided, but its political context, its impacts and its long-term effect on the country – the questions that fade as the news cycle moves on. So we look at the parts and the whole alike: reported first, analysed properly, remembered when everyone else has moved on. Speed, depth and memory.

Research Agenda is built by the team behind Wonkhe so that government and arm's-length bodies are held to account, the community can take part in the debate – and change in the system happens in daylight.

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