richard@freeman10X | Richard Freeman

Introduction: governing Europe’s spaces: European Union re-imagined

2015 | Carter C : Freeman R : Lawn M, chapter in book

What do we imagine when we imagine Europe and the European Union? What unacknowledged assumptions do we hold? This Introduction argues that, for a long time, EU studies has been dominated by discussions in which ‘the EU’ is consistently treated as an object: supranational, intergovernmental, multi-level, monotopia.

‘Doing Politics’

2015 | research

was given as an inaugural lecture on 4 February 2015… How does politics happen? When we do politics, what are we doing? In this lecture, I want to show how we might understand politics as action, as a mode of doing. Drawing on the sociology of interaction, I...

Renske Vos

2014 | former doctoral students

is now at the University of Amsterdam, working on the way bureaucrats in Brussels hold the worlds of law and politics together in negotiating European military interventions.

A New Politics of Knowledge

2014 | research

announced Palgrave Studies in Science, Knowledge and Policy on the LSE’s Impact blog… Kat Smith and Richard Freeman argue it’s time to start bringing together the diverse and innovative thinking around the complex relationships between science, knowledge...

Knowledge in Policy: embodied, inscribed, enacted

2014 | research

edited with Steve Sturdy, has now been published by Policy Press… This important collection presents a radical reconception of the place of knowledge in contemporary policymaking in Europe, based not on assumptions about evidence, expertise or experience but on...

Where do you get your clothes?

2014 | faqs

Corniche, Edinburgh and the Artwear Emporium

Ann-Charlotte Nedlund

2014 | postdoctoral

came to the School for a few weeks in early 2014 to develop ideas about disability and citizenship. She works at the Centre for Dementia Research (CEDER) in the National Centre for Priority-Setting in Health Care at Linköping University.

Europe’s spaces of action

2014 | home, research

What do we imagine when we imagine Europe and the European Union? What unacknowledged assumptions do we hold? In Governing Europe’s Spaces, we re-imagine Europe as a space of action. We elaborate our concept of space – physical, symbolic, peopled, bordered, multiple...

Political Work (IHS Vienna)

2013 | teaching

Political Work was first taught as a short course for the doctoral programme in Sociology at the Institut für höhere Studien in Vienna in 2013. It investigates the practices of politics, concentrating on the specific form of politics which is policy making…

Reciprocal instrumentalism: Scotland, WHO Europe, and mental health

2013 | journal paper, Smith-Merry J : Freeman R : Sturdy S

This paper explores the relationship between the World Health Organization’s Regional Office for Europe (WHO Europe) and Scotland in the context of mental health

Ellen Grootegoed

2013 | postdoctoral

was a Chrystal Macmillan Fellow in Social Policy 2013-2014, conducting a study of emotional labour in the administration of austerity.

Olga Dimova

2013 | former doctoral students

worked on the sociology and politics of mental health care for young people in the justice system in Russia.

Making knowledge for international policy: WHO Europe and mental health policy, 1970-2008

2013 | journal paper, Sturdy S : Freeman R : Smith-Merry J

It is widely agreed that the effectiveness of the World Health Organization (WHO) as a policy body derives chiefly from its reputation as a source of authoritative knowledge. However, little has been done to show just how WHO mobilises knowledge for policy purposes.

Thesis prizes

2013 | Uncategorised

Rosalind Cavaghan and Alistair Hunter have won prestigious awards for their doctoral theses… Rosalind Cavaghan was awarded the ECPR’s Gender and Politics PhD prize for her dissertation on gender mainstreaming as a knowledge process. Alistair Hunter won...

Michal Sedlacko

2013 | former doctoral students

was on the doctoral programme in Sociology at the Institut für höhere Studien, Vienna, working on the knowledge practices of public servants in sustainable food consumption policy.

Critical Comparison

2013 | research

‘For a (self-)critical comparison’, written with Eric Mangez, appeared in Critical Policy Studies in summer 2013… This paper reflects on the design and organization of cross-national comparative research in social and public policy, based in our own...

For a (self-)critical comparison

2013 | Freeman R : Mangez E, journal paper

This paper reflects on the design and organization of cross-national comparative research in social and public policy, based in our own experience of leading and taking part in projects of this kind.

Why these faqs?

2013 | faqs

The short answer is because I thought you’d read them. I originally wanted to write something like an artist’s statement, but that’s a really difficult thing to do (and even most artists do it badly). And it would probably look really pretentious,...

Representing Practice

2013 | research

is the title of a panel at the conference on Interpretive Policy Analysis in Vienna in July 2013… A sense of practice has always been central to critical and interpretive policy studies, both as a theoretical construct and as an object of inquiry. Much work has...

nef’s Prevention Papers

2013 | research

cite Richard Freeman’s early work in seeking to renew an agenda for prevention in social and public policy… Ian Gough’s ‘Understanding prevention policy’, written for the new economics foundation, begins by noting the relative absence of...