Information Sharing in policy and practice. What needs to be shared (and not shared) when we share information? ESRC Seminar Series Seminar 2: Information sharing and Places 2nd July 2015, University of East Anglia #informationsharing Aims of the seminar series • Foster the exchange of information and ideas by bringing together academic researchers around the theme of information sharing in the delivery of public services and policy making. • Facilitate mutual understanding, knowledge exchange and establish a community between academic researchers and non-academic users from the public, private and third sectors, especially individuals/organisations or affected by, challenges of governance of information and information sharing • Contribute to capacity building within the research community (both academic, policy-maker and practice based) by including established experts, early career researchers and postgraduate students Aims of the seminar series • Initiate new ways of articulating and representing information sharing in the public service that lead to collaborative research projects. • To inform policy and practice through reporting of seminar proceedings (live commentary via tweets and subsequent reports/presentations on the website/blog) in order to provide insight to wider practitioner and policy-making communities. This work will be led by the Centre of Excellence for Information Sharing who have an established website, Blog and Twitter feed devoted to the topic. • To engage with the academic community through the dissemination of ideas that make significant contributions to shaping debates and discussions about the multi-disciplinary aspects of information sharing in a range of contexts. This will take the form of published outputs in international journals. First year of the series • 12 seminars over 3 years – Information and Integrating Health and Social Care 25th Nov 2014, Newcastle – 5th March, 2015, Families and Information Sharing, Bradford – Smart Cities and Information Sharing 2ndJuly 2015, UEA, Norwich – Policy Makers Knowledge Exchange Seminar September, 2015, London – Fire and Rescue Services Seminar on 7th November part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science Keeping the information sharing going... • Rob Wilson @wilsorob • Sue Baines @SMBaines • Centre of Excellence for Information Sharing @InfoShareCoE • Supported by @kiteresearch • Tweeting please use #informationsharing • ...and if you really are enjoying it @esrc (our sponsors)