In this rapidly evolving situation, Parliament needs quick access to researchers who can provide expert insights relating to both coronavirus and its impacts.

Parliament and Parliamentarians use these insights to help carry out their function effectively; to represent the people, scrutinise the Government, debate important and pressing issues and pass legislation.

To speed up the process of Parliament accessing relevant research expertise, Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange Unit (KEU) are creating a COVID-19 Outbreak Expert Database.

If you feel you have any expertise* relating to the COVID-19 outbreak or its impacts, the KEU would be very grateful if you would sign up to the database. Signing up does not commit you to contributing in any way, it’s simply so that Parliament has your details to hand and can contact you very rapidly; if they contact you and you aren’t able to respond, they will fully understand.

While individuals need to complete the sign-up form themselves for GDPR compliance, they are asked to please inform Kristy Diaz, Stakeholder Communications Officer on K.Diaz@lboro.ac.uk that they are doing so. This is to ensure connectivity with any future communications and engagement opportunities.

The sign-up form can be accessed here.

*Staff in Parliament have identified a number of areas where they may need to be able to access research expertise – a full list can be found on the sign-up page. If you identify an area that has not been listed, please do feel free to give detail on the sign-up form in ‘other’.