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Understanding Public Policy: How to Maximise the Use of Evidence

17 January 2019 10:00–11:30

IDS, Room 221 Institute of Development Studies
Library Road
Brighton
BN1 9RE

Researchers, activists, policy professionals, and practitioners across sectors and disciplines are working to tackle global challenges such as poverty, inequality and climate change through influencing policy and practice at local, national and global levels.

Yet toolkits and guidelines for getting evidence into use frequently fail to pay enough attention to policy theory.

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Professor Paul Cairney argues that in many sectors, including development, scholars’ assumptions about the value of academic research, particularly when grounded in locally generated evidence and their perceptions of flawed policy processes has left us ill-equipped to navigate the stormy waters of evidence informed policy and practice. He proposes that instead we extract key insights from policy theories and use them to inform discussions about how to promote evidence use.

About the speaker

Paul Cairney is Professor of Politics and Public Policy at the University of Stirling. He is a specialist in politics and public policy, currently focusing on the ways in which policy studies can explain the use of evidence in politics and policy, and how policymakers translate broad long-term aims into evidence informed objectives.

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