Add to ORKGGiven the field of evidence-informed policymaking has existed for some time, experts’ confusion, knowledge gaps, and inconsistencies around the fundamentals is bewildering. Reporting on a recent Ontario case study, Jacqueline Sohn considers how evidence-informed policymaking works in practice, likening the swift and abrupt movements that eventually lead to policies being developed to a perpetual tango, and reveals how research producers looking to successfully influence the process might use politics to their advantage
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The problems behind the recent exam results chaos illustrate a more general need to rethink which fa...
There is no doubt that good communications and framing research and evidence for your audience is im...
There is an accepted need to bridge the gap between academic research and public policy. Knowledge b...
This paper discusses an emerging context in which design expertise is being applied – the making of ...
Superficially connecting evidence to policy might seem like singular process that brings together di...
The journey from evidence to policy is inevitably complex and frequently becomes divisive as argumen...
Since the term was popularised by Rittel and Webber in their seminal article, Dilemmas in a general ...
The call for evidence-based policy is often accompanied by rather uncritical references to the succe...
Kate Summers argues that while scholars often engage in descriptively identifying social security pr...
Effective communication of research is often cited as being most important to gaining the attention ...
An underlying assumption of modern political states is that they are rational systems that ‘follow t...
Achieving tangible impacts on policy and practice is not easy. But it's made even harder by starting...
As the value of research with impact increases, so too does the importance of first gaining access t...
Funding bids, blogs, academic papers, and policy briefs are awash with references to the "policymake...
Not all crises are met with proportionate policies: there can sometimes be a lack of balance between...
The problems behind the recent exam results chaos illustrate a more general need to rethink which fa...
There is no doubt that good communications and framing research and evidence for your audience is im...
There is an accepted need to bridge the gap between academic research and public policy. Knowledge b...
This paper discusses an emerging context in which design expertise is being applied – the making of ...
Superficially connecting evidence to policy might seem like singular process that brings together di...
The journey from evidence to policy is inevitably complex and frequently becomes divisive as argumen...
Since the term was popularised by Rittel and Webber in their seminal article, Dilemmas in a general ...
The call for evidence-based policy is often accompanied by rather uncritical references to the succe...
Kate Summers argues that while scholars often engage in descriptively identifying social security pr...
Effective communication of research is often cited as being most important to gaining the attention ...
An underlying assumption of modern political states is that they are rational systems that ‘follow t...
Achieving tangible impacts on policy and practice is not easy. But it's made even harder by starting...
As the value of research with impact increases, so too does the importance of first gaining access t...
Funding bids, blogs, academic papers, and policy briefs are awash with references to the "policymake...
Not all crises are met with proportionate policies: there can sometimes be a lack of balance between...
The problems behind the recent exam results chaos illustrate a more general need to rethink which fa...
There is no doubt that good communications and framing research and evidence for your audience is im...