Overview

Increasingly, academics are finding that engaging with external stakeholders can be both fruitful in undertaking research and an effective way to impact policy. With insightful and practical advice from a diverse range of contributors, including academics, policy makers, civil servants and knowledge exchange professionals, this accessible book explores How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research. With a practical focus, this book combines an array of real-life experiences and insights from the perspectives of both academics and policy makers who are experienced in informing and impacting policy. The book comprehensively illustrates how academics can more effectively engage with policy makers through a range of interdisciplinary insights and case studies. The book explores the value of research for policy, as well as modes of engagement with policy for researchers across the various stages of their career. Providing practical insights to seize the opportunity of engaging policy makers in research, this innovative book will be an excellent resource for social science academics as well as policy makers looking to benefit from academic research insights. The book provides a better understanding of how the worlds of academics and policy makers can come together to realise greater policy impact from research expertise.

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Author:   Tim Vorley ,  Syahirah Abdul Rahman ,  Lauren Tuckerman ,  Phil Wallace
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9781800378957

ISBN 10:   1800378955
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   22 July 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: PART I UNDERSTANDING THE NEED AND ARTICULATING THE OFFER 1 Introduction to How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research 2 Syahirah Abdul Rahman, Lauren Tuckerman, Tim Vorley and Phil Wallace 2 What do policymakers want from researchers? Developing better understanding of a complex landscape 10 Graeme Reid and Sarah Chaytor 3 The value of research evidence for policy 28 David Christian Rose and Chris Tyler 4 Speaking a shared language 38 Sarah Foxen and Rowena Bermingham 5 From broadcast to engagement: moving beyond traditional mechanisms 50 Anand Menon and Jill Rutter 6 Between disciplines and perspectives: ACT as a PERIpatetic researcher 61 Matjaz Vidmar 7 Co-producing policy relevant research 73 Clementine Hill O'Connor, Lucy Gavens, Dan Chedgzoy and Mary Gogarty 8 Developing and delivering university consortia 83 Annette Bramley 9 When worlds collide: the role of the funder in connecting research and policy 94 Melanie Knetsch and Lauren Tuckerman PART II MODES OF ENGAGEMENT 10 Critical friends - real time insights for shaping strategy 104 Debbie Johnson, Geeta Nathan and Syahirah Abdul Rahman 11 Designing and delivering targeted policy engagement events 113 Sarah Weakley 12 Collaborative doctoral research 124 Tim Vorley and Cristian Gherhes 13 Doing and making the most of PhD internships 136 Lauren Tuckerman 14 Enabling collaboration and building capacity through research networks 146 Phil Wallace, Heidi Hinder, Adam Luqmani and Lisa Hanselmann 15 Mission research: experiences from participation in OECD entrepreneurship policy research projects 154 Helen Lawton Smith 16 Intersectional Anti-Racist Academic Activism for Policy-making (INTARAAP) through community engagement 164 Ima Jackson and Judy Wasige 17 Commissioned research 175 Dan Hodges and Syahirah Abdul Rahman PART III EXAMPLES OF INFORMING, INFLUENCING AND IMPACTING POLICY 18 Engaging with policy makers in emerging markets 185 Ekkehard Ernst 19 The City-Region Economic Development Institute - establishing a successful place-based research institute to support regions in turbulent times and beyond 196 Rebecca Riley, Simon Collinson, Anne Green and Raquel Ortega-Argiles 20 Impacting small business policy: the Enterprise Research Centre 207 Vicki Belt 21 Impacting policy thinking through partnership: insights from Northern Ireland 217 Jen Nelles, Tim Vorley and Eoin McFadden 22 Critical engagement in diversity and entrepreneurship: lessons from the Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship 229 Monder Ram 23 Supporting policy towards sustainability 241 Alice Owen 24 How to win friends and influence policy: a guide for new researchers 249 Katy Jones Index 259

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'There is a growing interest in improving academic policy engagement in the UK and internationally. However, we still have a lot to learn about how to do this work better. This book provides a novel contribution, with authors drawn from UK government, parliament, research funders and academia. It focuses on three key areas: how academics articulate the value and relevance of research to policy, the different ways in which academic-policy engagement occur and how research impacts upon policy. The contributors bring a vast amount of experience to bear on these topics and as such help to move forward our thinking on how academic-policy engagement might help to promote the use of research to support policy making.' -- Annette Boaz and Kathryn Oliver, Transforming Evidence and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK 'All too often it seems that researchers are from Mars and policy makers from Venus. In other words, policy researchers hope for their research to be useful to policy makers, and policy makers value the insights from policy researchers, but all too often they talk past another. How to Engage Policy Makers is a long overdue book that provides a valuable handbook for researchers on how to bridge that gap and increase the odds that the results of their research will be of value to policy makers.' -- Robert D. Atkinson, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, US 'While the book is titled How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research, it is the subtitle The Art of Informing and Impacting Policy that speaks to its value. The key words being art and impact. This book assembles the experience of 41 such experts, academics, funders and policy authors, to illustrate how the nexus of research and policy is an art that can maximize the potential of your next research-policy engagement.' -- David J. Phipps, York University, Canada 'The need for the academic community to contribute to policy dialogue, and for policymakers to seek expert advice, has never been more obvious. This book is a highly relevant collection of insights and advice for all those who would like to see better policies, better evidenced, in all walks of life.' -- Phil Clare, University of Oxford, UK 'Knowledge Exchange practitioners should gain a greater sense of purpose and pride from reading this book, which recognises the particular skills set needed to build sustainable and diverse policy-research relationships. Far from a dry theory of knowledge exchange, this is insightful sharing of practice from people working on the frontlines of academic-policy engagement and who understand the challenges and opportunities such activity offers.' -- Tamsin Mann, PraxisAuril, UK

Author Information

Edited by Tim Vorley, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean, Syahirah Abdul Rahman, Lecturer in Business and Management and Lauren Tuckerman, Lecturer in Business and Management, Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford Brookes University, UK and Phil Wallace, Communications and Engagement Coordinator, Digital Futures team, University of Manchester, UK

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