2017 | home, journal paper, Leigh D : Freeman R, teaching
The ‘practice turn’ and its associated ontology, epistemology and methodology are now well established in political research. In this article, we identify and explore a corollary pedagogy. After outlining the principal components of practice theory, we compare case-...
2017 | book, engagement, Freeman R : McHardy F : Murphy D (eds), home
Equality is a hugely important topic for most Scots and many of us want to see a more equal society. But what kind of equality do we want, and how, in practice, might we achieve it? This book brings together a group of experienced practitioners from across the country...
2017 | teaching
leads the teaching component of the Doing Politics project, and was taught for the first time as an undergraduate option in 2014-2015…
2017 | teaching
You’ve just joined a government department with responsibility for a key policy domain. There’s an election due in a couple of months, and your team has been asked to supply a briefing for the incoming minister…
2017 | home, journal paper, research
served as postscript to Vicky Singleton, Claire Waterton and Natalie Gill’s new Sociological Review Monograph on Care and Policy Practices…
2017 | chapter in book, Freeman R : Sturdy S, home, research
Comparison is crucial to the way that policy organizations know the world, and nowhere more so than in the work of international organizations, which inevitably find themselves comparing policies and practices in different national settings. But how should we...
2017 | Freeman R : Griggs S : Anderson D : Leigh D : Barnett N, research report
What is it that local councillors do when they go about their work? How do officers understand their role and engage within and beyond the council? How do communities connect with local councils and interact with councillors and officers? A better understanding of...
2017 | engagement, home, research report, Simpkin M : Freeman R
This paper reports a project undertaken by the Academy of Government, in collaboration with Oxfam Scotland, on the work of commissions. Its purpose was to inform a report by Oxfam Scotland responding to the Scottish Government’s announcement, in the Fairer Scotland...
2016 | former doctoral students
worked previously at the Equality Challenge Unit in London, and came to Edinburgh to research and write about the development of intersectionality in practice.
2016 | former doctoral students
studied the working out of health care reform on the ground, at an HIV clinic in Atlanta. She teaches global health at Emory University.
