Here is a brief talk that I gave at the University of Queensland in Brisbane (25 October 2018). It accompanies a blog post  Evidence-based policymaking and the new policy sciences [and powerpoint ppt]: "In the ‘new policy sciences’, Chris Weible and I advocate: a return to Lasswell’s vision of combining policy analysis (to recommend policy change) and policy theory (to explain policy change), but focusing on a far larger collection of actors (beyond a small group at the centre), ...

This is a short talk at the University of Queensland in Brisbane (24 October 2018) called Theory and Practice: How to Communicate Policy Research beyond the Academy  The blog post - Theory and Practice: How to Communicate Policy Research beyond the Academy - should be written in a way that allows you to read along (or at least see the pictures/ powerpoint slides I mention). It begins: 'Here is the powerpoint that I tend to use to inform discussions with civil servants (CS). I first used it...

Based on the blog post Policy Concepts in 1000 Words: the intersection between evidence and policy transfer This post is a way into many publications that compare different models of 'evidence based policymaking', including: Paul Cairney and Kathryn Oliver (2017) ‘Evidence-based policymaking is not like evidence-based medicine, so how far should you go to bridge the divide between evidence and policy?’ Health Research Policy and Systems (HARPS), DOI: 10.1186/s12961-017-0192-x PDF Paul...

Recorded in front of a live studio audience (of undergraduate social policy students). This lecture ties well to the short explainer Policy Concepts in 1000 Words: ‘Evidence Based Policymaking’ but I also wrote a separate post to accompany this talk ‘Evidence-based Policymaking’ and the Study of Public Policy: 'This post accompanies a 40 minute lecture which considers ‘evidence-based policymaking’ (EBPM) through the lens of policy theory. The theory is important, to give us a language with...

Evidence-based policymaking: lecture and Q&A Here is my talk (2 parts) on EBPM at the School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver 24.2.16. I was discussing The Politics of Evidence-Based Policymaking, and you can read more here: EBPM | Paul Cairney: Politics & Public Policy (wordpress.com)

Speaker: Dr Paul Cairney, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK Description of series: This podcast includes a series of guest lectures to discuss the book The Politics of Evidence-Based Policymaking. I wrote the book in 2016 then wrote a very large number of blog posts to explore different aspects: EBPM | Paul Cairney: Politics & Public Policy (wordpress.com). Some of my talks were recorded as videos (or podcasts stored on external sites), and...