There are many global challenges that we face. These include meeting net zero targets and building a workforce for the future. For example, having appropriate skills and talent pipelines in place to support a green transition. The same is in the health and social care sector, especially in the face of an aging population.
How can research help to tackle these global challenges? The UN’s Higher Education Sustainability Initiative sees a clear link between research and scholarship and building a workforce for the future. Its Education for Green Jobs initiative brings together researchers, industry and educators to outline workforce needs and support curricula to build the workforce needed for the future.
As an academic publisher, Taylor & Francis is particularly interested in exploring what role research and scholarship can play in helping improve the UK’s skills base. Do we need to think differently about how we do, communicate, and incentivise research? Is there also a role for the arts, humanities, and social sciences (AHSS) to play in meeting future skills and workforce needs?
We publish both basic and applied research across the disciplinary spectrum and are creating more avenues for interdisciplinary research. We believe that research does – or will – provide answers to many of the challenges that we’re facing globally. So, what have we been doing to help realise the full potential of research?
