The panel held a series of meetings over the course of 24 and 25 October, including the following: • (ESRI) – the chair and members of the ESRI Council, the director and heads of division, the research area co-ordinators of each research area, and a group of junior researchers, representative of a range of research areas; • (External) – representatives of key external stakeholders, including many. [...] In addition, although the number of research areas was determined by the Research Strategy, the emergence of a range of issues since its publication (including the pandemic, the housing crisis, the energy crisis and the Shared Island initiative) have all had significant impact on the activity of the divisions and their output over the last two years. [...] There was mention of the fact that there was now a wealth of administrative data in the area and the capacity of some of the stakeholders has improved, providing the prospect of a different relationship in the future. [...] General observations of the panel | 29 SECTION 6 General Observations of the Panel The following observations of the review team respond directly to the key requirements of the terms of reference and summarise the team’s reflections on the overall performance of the Institute in light of the ambitions set out in its Research Strategy 2019–2023. [...] In light of this, and of the cost to the state and the Institute, of the current complex multi-stream funding structure, it would be desirable for the ESRI and Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to clarify the desired role of the Institute in this regard and match it to an appropriate, perhaps more coherent, state funding structure.
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