Responsible Research & Innovation and AREA
A useful way to think about Responsible Research and Innovation and plan activities for your own research, is to use the UKRI AREA approach. This approach consists of four principles of RRI, building on those developed by Stilgoe et al.
Click on a principle title below, to see supported University of Manchester activities for that principle, with links to support and resources. You can see further external resources on the RRI Resources tab on the left.
Click on the Act section for a form you can use to record your planned RRI activity under these principles and links to evaluation resources you can use at the end of your project. You can use this approach if you have already started your research, but it will give most value if used in planning stages.
Anticipate
Explore possible impacts (such as economic, social and environmental) and implications that may otherwise remain uncovered and little discussed
•Ethics Review
•Impact
•Sustainability
•Research Risk Profiler
Reflect
Reflect on the purposes of and motivations for the research, together with the associated uncertainties, areas of ignorance, and assumptions
•EDI
•Trusted Research
Engage
Open up such visions, impacts and questioning to broader deliberation, dialogue, engagement and debate in an inclusive way
•PE
•Participatory Research (page coming soon)
•PPIE
•Civic Engagement
•Open Research
Act
Use these processes to influence the direction and trajectory of the research and innovation process itself