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Report
Making Sense of Pathogen Surveillance
Pathogen surveillance—collecting and sharing data about infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance—informs key public health decisions. What pathogen surveillance initiatives exist currently? And what are the main challenges they face?
Commentary
Nations Must Collaborate on AI and Biotech—or Be Left Behind
As two revolutionary technologies—machine learning and gene editing—converge, forward-looking policy is essential to both mitigate risks and leverage opportunities.
Commentary
Counting LGBTQ+ Lives in England and Wales: A critical reflection on emerging findings from the 2021 census
A RAND Europe analysis of the census data in England and Wales identified inequalities among LGBTQ+ people in relation to their general health, daily activities, highest qualifications and employment.
Commentary
Realising the promise of the Defence and Security Industrial Strategy
Drawing on a body of RAND research on the UK defence industrial base, R&D and technology, researchers reflect on areas of emerging challenges to implementing the Defence and Security Industrial Strategy (DSIS) published in March 2021.
Commentary
Science and technology as a tool of power: An appraisal
In the 2021 Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy, the UK Government expressed an ambition to use science and technology (S&T) as a tool of power and an integral part of its national security strategy. Researchers highlight the critical enablers for a successful realisation of this ambition, including conceptual, practical and financial levers.
Commentary
'Truth Decay' in Europe Is Real, but Its Advance Can Be Slowed
Though present in Europe, the evidence suggests that trends of Truth Decay are not as widespread or as pronounced as they are in the United States. There is still time for policymakers to intervene and limit their growth.
Project
Future uses of space out to 2050
To support the UK's National Space Strategy and ensure that it is more ‘future proof’, researchers recommend the UK work more closely with allies, foster innovation, and more.
Project
Realising the ambitions of the UK’s Defence Space Strategy
Researchers examined the factors influencing the implementation of the Defence Space Strategy to 2030 as well as the unique attributes of the UK space enterprise—including its strengths and weaknesses. They include a decision support tool to help decision makers navigate capability management choices along the 'own-collaborate-access' framework articulated in the Defence and Security Industrial Strategy.
Project
Integrating channels of communication to achieve influence
Researchers are identifying strategies, approaches, methods and tools that UK Defence can implement to design multi-channel influence campaigns aimed at overseas audiences, comprising both online and offline forms of communication, and developing ways to monitor and measure the campaigns' effectiveness..
Project
Innovative technologies shaping the 2040 battlefield
Technological change alone is unlikely to fundamentally alter the nature of the future battlefield but will continue to shape the character of warfare. The full effect of technological advances may only materialise in conjunction with enabling infrastructure or other technologies and, in Europe, may be shaped by EU-specific enablers and barriers.

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