Immigration is one of the most important public policy issues in the UK. It has, over the past ten years, consistently ranked among the top issues of concern to the British public. The current Government has embarked on a series of significant immigration policy changes which have generated heated public and policy debates as well as extensive media coverage. Public debates and media coverage of migration, both in the UK and the EU, are often highly polarised and based on assertions and opinions rather than facts and evidence. There is widespread confusion about what we know and don't know about the scale and impacts of migration in the UK. More transparent and accessible data and analysis are needed to help generate a more evidence-based debate and strengthen policy-making. Different people and organisations will always legitimately disagree about the goals of immigration policy - but it is clearly desirable to aim for more clarity, transparency and agreement in the evidence base underlying the discussions. COMPAS has a successful track record at engaging users of its research and is constantly seeking to strengthen its user engagement and impact on public and policy debates. With its record for high quality academic research and policy expertise, the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) is well placed to play a more significant role within the UK's migration debate. Recognising the importance of this we recently established The Migration Observatory, a new flagship project specifically aimed at informing public debate and policy on international migration in the UK. The proposed project would further develop and strengthen the impact of the user engagement activities of the Migration Observatory and COMPAS. The proposed activities will make data and analysis more accessible to key users, such as Government officials, private business and non-governmental organisations, as well as the general public. The project will inform and engage with media and public debates on migration and public policy; strengthen policy-making by providing more transparency and clarity about the evidence base; enable a wide range of users, particularly government officials and the private sector, to easily access and use our charts, maps and analysis for more evidence-based contributions to the UK's migration debate; and help us to establish enduring partnerships with key migration data providers and users. To achieve these aims, the project includes a range of user engagement activities: - Web functionality: enhanced functionality of interactive charts and maps (including Census 2010 data available next year); and increased numbers of new videos and podcasts on key migration issues; - Policy and User Events: policy briefings and user workshops (again based on the upcoming Census results); the extension of COMPAS Breakfast Briefings series; and a high level symposium on Migration Impacts over the last 10 years. - Media monitoring: this will enhance our ability to track and understand public discourse around migration, with a view to extending the impact we have in this field; - Knowledge Exchange visits: between staff at COMPAS, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and the Home Office This portfolio of activities is designed to maximise the impact of COMPAS' existing research, as well as position us as a focal point for analysis of the forthcoming Census 2011 results on migration.