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How we work


GO-Science works collaboratively, using formal and informal networks. These include colleagues in other departments and external experts, who are involved in advising Government on or formulating policy with respect to key science and technology issues. Together, GO-Science and its network partners create and promote guidance and frameworks describing how departments can use the natural and social sciences, engineering and medicine to provide a sound evidence base for making policy. The guidance and frameworks encourage and support departments’ use and management of science, as well as challenging them to match best practice across Government and (where appropriate) outside.

GO-Science’s main networks are:

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