EGIPP cultivates an active research culture and supports high quality research through four main roles:

• Providing a forum to debate and refine new research ideas at an early stage of development through regular lunchtime staff research seminars
• Fostering individual staff development by research mentoring and by appraisal
• Organizing a flexible process of internal peer review of book proposals and grant applications to disseminate best practice with reference to academic quality criteria, presentation, fit to funding schemes, and track record
• Undertaking research student training, appraisal and progression.
• Informing public debate on topical issues through roundtables.