Hessa Al Khalifa
is Director of Strategy Management and Institutional Excellence in the Ministry of Housing, Bahrain, and is writing about the origins of New Town planning there.Emily Cameron-Blake
holds an MSc, an MPP and a World Championship medal, and is working on the need for a duty of care for elite athletes.Mike Bennett
is completing his PhD by publication, drawing on both Hegel and a career in consultancy to rethink leadership in local government.Writing Politics
We need to talk about writing. Doing politics differently must mean writing politics differently, and ‘writing politics’ is a collective exploration of how that might work… Most of us work in policy, politics, sociology, law or IR, and we’re...Doing Politics
is now free to access at doingpolitics.space. I want to write about politics as something people do, to describe a politics grounded in human action and interaction – in the gathering and meeting, talking and writing of embodied and situated human beings…
Seeing Politics
takes up the idea that one of the principal characteristics of action is its visibility, and uses photographs to explore aspects of ‘doing politics’. It was given online as a keynote presentation to the Critical and Interpretive Public Administration...The role of the councillor and the work of meeting
This paper picks up a theme from the recent literature on the councillor, that of time spent in meeting, and suggests that if we are to understand the role of the councillor we must understand the work the meeting does. The discussion is based in a series of...Lianne Visser
visited from Radboud University in Nijmegen, studying experimentalist governance among child welfare practitioners.Mirja Sjöblom
is a Senior Economist with the World Bank’s Global Practice on Health, Nutrition and Population and worked on the governance of primary health care markets in Sweden.Øyunn Høydal
visited the SKAPE centre in 2017, while completing her PhD on evaluation research. She now has a postdoctoral position at Oslo Metropolitan University.What do policy makers really do?
The question is important because making policy engages a great number of people one way or another, and what they do they might do well or badly. Our standard answers are rather hazy, not least because policy making entails such great numbers of people doing a great...Meeting, talk and text: policy and politics in practice
Our prevailing accounts of the policy process are challenged by studies of practice as well as by practitioners themselves. This paper sets out an alternative, grounded in politics and sociology and informed by recent work in related disciplines. Drawing on the...Doing Politics: research, teaching and practice
For a meeting of the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, 19 November 2018… The aim of this presentation is simply to set out a framework for studying ‘doing politics’, and to discuss ways of using it in teaching as well as...Policy and politics in practice: the work of meeting, talk and text
Public lecture, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, University of Vienna, 13 December 2018… What are policy and politics, in practice? When we do politics and make policy, what are we doing? In this lecture, I want to set out a framework for...Gastprofessur in Vienna
Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics, University of Vienna, 2018-2019, teaching courses in Making Policy, Doing Comparison and Doing Politics and Making Policy at Bachelor’s and Master’s levels respectively… BAK 13: Making policy,...Good Vibrations
Nice citations, at least, if not ex-citations. Like lots of us, I guess, most of what I’ve written appears again (if it appears at all) as a name and number, person and date inserted in someone else’s argument, to be read as simple ciphers for the complex...So what are you working on right now?
I have this disparate set of things I’m calling ‘doing politics’. I’ve become fascinated by what politics and policy making look like in practice, on the ground, as a set of human actions and interactions. What do we actually do in order to...Local politics in Scotland: the work of the councillor
Three reports for APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence), part of continuing work with Professor Steve Griggs at De Montfort University, Leicester, explore the work entailed in local politics, focusing on the role of the councillor: Anderson, D, Barnett, N,...Europe in translation: governance, integration and the project form
Policy makers and commentators refer readily to ‘the European project’, as though Europe itself were a project. But what would it mean to take this term seriously, to develop the account of European governance it seems to suggest? This chapter begins on the ground, in the everyday understanding of the project as an organizational form…