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Evidence and Policy
Seminar Series
(NORFACE)
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The University
of Edinburgh (Scotland) organised a seminar series on
Evidence and Policy
with the University of Iceland, National University of
Ireland, University of Oslo and Erasmus
University (Rotterdam). The seminars aimed to advance
international and comparative understanding of the use
of different forms of knowledge and evidence in the policy
process through a process of sharing of ideas and discussion
across these jurisdictions.
The latest theme issue of the Evidence and Policy journal
is dedicated to the papers that arose
from the seminar series. You can access this theme issue
by
clicking here.
The editorial provides an overview of the main lessons
to emerge from the seminar series
and this is available to download free of change.
Three seminars and a final workshop details below:
• exploring the role of different forms of evidence
in the policy process and assess the
relative weight attached to each of these by policy makers
(Edinburgh, November 2007)
• considering the impact of the social sciences
on policy and the impact of evidence-based
policy on the social sciences (Rotterdam,
April 2008)
• documenting the strategies and interventions employed
in a range of countries to improve
the use of evidence in the policy process and consider
any evidence on their effectiveness
(Oslo,
September 2008)
• drawing out overall conclusions and seek to initiate
new comparative research on the role
and use of different types of evidence in the policy processes
of different countries (Dublin,
March 2009). |
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