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Separation of microplastics from water using superhydrophobic silane-coupling-agent-modified geopolymer foam
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Coronavirus anxiety, COVID anxiety syndrome and mental health : a test among six countries during March 2021
Get PDFHow do policy officials allocate their resources to support evidence-informed policymaking? Towards a research agenda
Get PDFBackground: Studies from a range of countries and from different bodies of public policy scholarship have improved our understanding of evidence-informed policymaking as a complex political process. It is shaped by relations between policy officials and evidence providers, by relations between different groups of policy officials, and by organisational and administrative mechanisms.
Aims and objectives: There has been little analysis of the resource implications of this complexity: how officials in government departments manage their human, financial and other resources to improve how they use evidence to inform policy decisions. Our study investigates this apparent gap in the literature.
Methods: A three-stage ‘hourglass’ review was used to search for empirical research on how policy officials allocate their resources to support evidence use. Stage 1 mapped contributing literatures, Stage 2 used the PRISMA protocol to search seven databases and Stage 3 reviewed a wider range of studies.
Findings: The Stage 2 review found no studies which used empirical data to analyse how effectively resources are managed to support evidence use in policymaking. However, the Stage 3 review, which relaxed two of the PRISMA criteria, identified sixteen studies that contributed to an iterative, reflexive exploration of the research question.
Discussion and conclusion: The issue of how policy officials allocate their resources to support evidence-informed policymaking appears to have been overlooked, but the Stage 3 review uncovered a set of interlinked issues worth of further study. We propose four themes that could shape a research agenda to deepen our understanding of how evidence-informed policymaking is practised inside government departments
Transformational leadership and employability among support staff workers with long tenure
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Learning from failure in ‘an integral part’ of EU Law : interpretation of international treaties in the CJEU
No full textOn the Move : Mobile Phones and the Tapestry of Home
No full text‘On the Move : Mobile Phones and the Tapestry of Home’ emphasises the role of mobile phones as symbolic links connecting individuals to their origins.
A combination of docu-fiction film, photography, written and spoken word draws viewers into the intricate world of migration, memory, and the quest for belonging; underscoring the nuanced relationship between modern technology and deeply personal memories and perceptions of home.
This active exhibition is a dialogue: both story of, and testament to, a shared human experience of the journey of migration, homemaking, and integration