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This Week’s Top Report is… Public trust in science-for-policymaking: understanding and enhancing the role of science in public policy debate in the UK ▶ apo.org.au/node/326018 To build trust, research needs to be made “more accessible, transparent & familiar to everyone, instilling a sense of shared public ‘ownership’” The British Academy Considerations for public officials and policy advisors:  1. Seek to invoke science early on in the framing process, to influence the extent to which scientific findings are part of political debate and policy development.  2. Avoid an approach that simply ‘follows the science’. Make clear how scientific evidence has been integrated with a range of other considerations.  3. Promote transparency in how evidence is used. 4. Acknowledge uncertainty and ambiguity, and if evidence is used selectively, explain why.  5. Protect and sustain scientific integrity and independence in the way that science is marshalled in policymaking. Considerations for researchers and knowledge brokers:  6. Where research addresses contested policy issues, ensure sensitivity to different perspectives in communicating your findings. 7. Play an active role in helping frame policy issues early on in the debate, clarifying the role of science in understanding and addressing policy challenges Sharaiz Asin, Chizitera Pennington, Henry Richards. Professor Christina Boswell FBA #evidenceinformed #policymaking #publicpolicy #policyimprovement #OpenAccess

Drawing on a new report, Deelan Maru and David Halpern outline the extent of under-evidenced public policy interventions and suggest how collaborative international approaches to building evidence architecture for policymaking could bridge this gap. #EvidenceBasedPolicy #Policymaking #SocialScience

The Hoover Institution, Stanford University's State and Local Governance Initiative invites submissions for its 2nd Annual Conference on Collaborative State and Local Policy Research, taking place on January 27-28, 2025. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, #workforcedevelopment, #healthpolicy, #criminaljustice, #education, #publicfinance, and more. Submit your working paper by November 1, 2024. Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eNiMDHYe #policyresearch #workingpapers #research

Delighted to see a new article from my European Research Council (ERC) project CONSULTATIONEFFECTS out in the Journal of European Public Policy! We analyse the dimensionality of the policy space of the European Commission's online public consultations. Our findings underscore the challenges and opportunities of using public consultations as instruments of information gathering and preference aggregation, and the difficulty of identifying stable majority equilibrium in bureaucratic policymaking. https://lnkd.in/dzsJV_w4

What gets in the way of research and policy working together for evidence-informed decisions? In an op-ed in the Canberra Times, colleagues Ariadne Vromen and Dr Patrick Brownlee and I reflect on our research exploring knowledge brokering, which finds "that there is a problem, driven by a lack of trusting relationships that underpin genuine influence and facilitate research impact. To facilitate translation, transfer and mobilisation of research into policy, these intermediaries must help bridge a trust gap." https://lnkd.in/gR5hYRBJ Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/g-RtzM3s

REMINDER ALERT! 📢 Haven't had the chance to check out the latest issue of the Policy Studies Journal? Don't miss out on fresh insights, research, and discussions on pressing policy issues! https://lnkd.in/gnyTQx-M #PSJ #PolicyStudiesJournal #PSJnews

Tool for the toolbox - good governance guide! (good governance = transparency + accountability + equity) Annotated Bibliography for Transparency in Policy-Making 'As part of our ongoing commitment to enhance and promote transparency in government decision-making, we have curated this annotated bibliography to serve as a comprehensive guide. This resource is designed to be a starting point for researchers exploring this research landscape, offering a nuanced understanding of different perspectives on transparency in policy-making. This annotated bibliography includes: - Academic articles, case studies, and reports from various organizations. - An exploration of the concepts of transparency and accountability and their connection to policy-making and good governance. - A selection of studies to provide a historical overview, tracing the evolution of transparency and accountability over the years. - A presentation of different interpretations of accessible information and evidence in decision-making across jurisdictions, as well as methodological frameworks for evaluating transparency across various policy niches. - A focus on specific case studies and critiques of well-established concepts.'

just published in the issue no. 1/2024 of Policy Sciences the paper I wrote with Benedetto Lepori, in which we propose a way to bridge a crucial gap between policy design and implementation. We illustrate our framework through a contrastive case study of the introduction of performance-based funding in the higher education sector in four European countries (France, Italy, Norway, and the United Kingdom) https://lnkd.in/d2JYzkJy

How can policy process research help to address policy and policymaking problems? This special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy seeks to address that question by examining the theory and practice of policy analysis. The call for papers sought state of the art articles that conceptualise the politics of policy analysis, and empirical studies that use theoretical insights to analyse and address real world problems. Contributions could draw on mainstream policy theories to explain how policymaking works, and/ or critical approaches that identify and challenge inequalities of power.