Dancing in the Dark: The Relationship between Policy Research and Policy Making in Dutch Higher Education

2001 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Klemperer ◽  
Theisens ◽  
Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research And Policy

Dancing in the Dark: The Relationship between Policy Research and Policy Making in Dutch Higher Education

2001 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Klemperer ◽  
Henno Theisens ◽  
Frans Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research And Policy

scholarly journals Aligning the times: Exploring the convergence of researchers, policy makers and research evidence in higher education policy making

2020 ◽  
pp. 003452372092067
Author(s):  
Karen Smith ◽  
Scott Fernie ◽  
Nick Pilcher
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Higher Education Policy ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Policy Networks ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Times ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Research And Policy

The complexity of contemporary higher education policy making and the multitude of evidences and actors in policy networks mean that relationships between higher education researchers, policy makers and research evidence are not straightforward. In this article, we use a theoretical lens of time, Adams’ Timescapes, to explore this relationship and better understand why the research and policy worlds are frequently described as divided. Drawing on in-depth interviews with higher education researchers, policy makers and research funders, we show how research and policy have different interpretations of time. We discuss the Timeframes, or lengths, of work and career, the Temporality, or complexity, of ‘evidence’, of networks and relationships, and the importance of elements such as Timing, or synchronisation, and Tempo, or pace. We conclude that policy makers and higher education researchers may be better able to make sense of the problematic nature of aligning their concerns, interests and actions through understanding different Timescapes.

The urban historian and the political will

Urban History ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. G. Checkland
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban History ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Will ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Research And Policy ◽  
General Perspective

At the Leicester urban history conference in 1966 there was very little discussion of the relationship between public policy and urban history. There were some points at which linkages were implied, but these arose merely incidentally. There was no attempt to adopt public policy as a general perspective on urban development. Reciprocally, the planners paid no attention to the historians: Jim Dyos remarked that the largest part of ‘research and policy making is taking place without reference to the historians’. The picture has not greatly changed over the past 14 years. There have indeed been studies in which policy, its formation and limitations, have been implicit, but few in which they have played a central part.

Approaches to Analyzing the Outcomes of International Scholarship Programs for Higher Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 230-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Mawer
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
International Development ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
International Scholarship ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Evaluation Approaches ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Scholarship Programs

International scholarship programs for higher education attract a substantial body of funding each year from national governments, supranational bodies, large charitable foundations, higher education institutions, and many smaller organizations. With aims variously shaped by international development and public diplomacy considerations, international scholarships fund students at higher education institutions worldwide. As the investment in, and scope of, scholarship programs has expanded, concurrent commitment to analysis and evaluation of their outcomes—both to improve policy making and justify further funding—has increased. This article explores several of the key methodological and conceptual challenges in the evaluation of international scholarship outcomes, focusing on the relationship between aims and outcomes, difficulties with “attribution” and “contribution,” and scholarship programs in comparison with their alternatives. The relationship between evidence gathering and policy making is considered in context of international scholarship programs, and several potentially useful future developments in evaluation approaches are suggested.

scholarly journals Research–Policy Dialogues on Migrant Integration in Europe

2019 ◽  
pp. 34-49
Author(s):  
Han Entzinger ◽  
Peter Scholten
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Immigrant Integration ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
Migrant Integration ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Research And Policy

This chapter analyses the relationship between research and policy-making on integration. Drawing on a large, cross-country, empirical research project conducted during 2011–2014 (the DIAMINT project), the chapter considers how research and policy-making in the field of migrant integration have developed over time, and how their relationship functions under the present conditions of strong politicization of the issue in Europe. The authors propose a theoretical framework that distinguishes between three aspects of research–policy dialogues in the domain of immigrant integration: dialogue structures—including the formal and informal arrangements created for the exchange and communication of knowledge and research; knowledge utilization—the cultures and practices of knowledge utilization in policy processes; and taking the perspective of researchers, knowledge production. The chapter considers—first theoretically and then empirically—how the increasing politicization of the issue of integration in Europe can affect the various dimensions of research–policy dialogues in different countries.

scholarly journals Investigating Immigration and the Sustainability of the Norwegian Welfare State

2019 ◽  
pp. 98-110
Author(s):  
Grete Brochmann
Keyword(s):  
Policy Making ◽  
The Political ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
Labour Immigration ◽  
National Welfare ◽  
Reform Processes ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Specific Part ◽  
Welfare Model ◽  
Research And Policy

This chapter deals with a specific part of research-based policy-making in the Norwegian context—the institution of Norwegian Official Commissions (Norges Offentlige Utredninger—NOU). This institution, which is a significant element of the consensual Norwegian governance, has since the 1970s increasingly been dominated by academics. The NOU tradition, with its high legitimacy within the polity, thus serves as a bridge between research and policy-making. The chapter uses two Commissions on the relationship between international migration and the sustainability of the national welfare model as cases, the first one with an emphasis on labour immigration, the second one on refugees. The chapter describes and discusses the political context in which they were commissioned as well as how they have impacted on public discussion and concrete reform processes in the aftermath. The two commissions can serve as examples of how research can contribute constructively in relation to policy-making on a particularly contentious issue.

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