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How Should Academics Engage in Policymaking to Achieve Impact?

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: This article reviews the advice from the academic and ‘grey’ literatures to identify a list of dos and don’ts for academics seeking ‘impact’ from their research. From ‘how to do it’ sources, we identify consistent advice on how to engage effectively, largely because it is necessarily vague, safe, and focused primarily on individuals. We then consider the wider policymaking system in which actors make political choices and have unequal access to impact opportunities. We identify the effort it takes to have actual policy impact and how far academics should be expected to go to secure and take credit for it.

Source: Political Studies Review

DOI: 10.1177/1478929918807714

Authors: Paul Cairney, Kathryn Oliver

Institutions: University of Stirling, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Language: English

Topic: Social Science and Policy Research

Subfield: General Social Sciences

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2901426330