2011 | chapter in book
What is policy? How do we do or make policy? Where and who with? What is it for, anyway, and what difference does it make? Good questions, though you wouldn’t be asking them if you didn’t already know that answering them isn’t easy.
2011 | journal paper, Smith-Merry J : Freeman R : Sturdy S
Background: Over the past ten years the promotion of recovery has become a stated aim of mental health policies within a number of English speaking countries, including Scotland. Implementation of a recovery approach involves a significant reorientation of mental health services and practices, which often poses significant challenges for reformers.
2011 | former doctoral students
drawing on both public policy and political geography, used the concept of scale to think about the formation and development of Academy Schools in England. She went on to work on a Horizon 2020 project comparing youth smoking prevention policies in 7 European...
2011 | former doctoral students
explored the possibilities of a post-liberal agency among participants in higher education projects in the Canadian Arctic, and now teaches at the University of Sussex.
2011 | Bissell K : Lee K : Freeman R, journal paper
Policy transfer occurs regularly. In essence, a strategy developed elsewhere is taken up and applied in another policy context. Yet what precisely is policy transfer and, more importantly, under what conditions does it occur? This paper describes policy transfer and addresses three main questions, exploring what perspectives of policy transfer might contribute to operational research (OR) efforts.
2011 | journal paper, Smith-Merry J : Freeman R : Sturdy S
System transformation in mental health is of immediate concern across countries throughout Europe and beyond. In this paper we describe a paradigm shift in Scottish policy from the control of psychiatric disorder to mental health governance and explore the means by which it has been supported and sustained
2011 | draft paper
System transformation in mental health is of immediate concern across countries throughout Europe and beyond.
2011 | draft paper, Freeman R : Sturdy S
The literature on the role of knowledge in policy making encompasses a striking diversity of views on just what knowledge is, what different types of knowledge there may be and how they are to be observed empirically.
2011 | book, Freeman R : Griggs S (eds)
The papers in this special issue began life as contributions to an ESRC-funded seminar series Policy as Practice: Understanding theWork of Policy Makers. The series promoted and facilitated exchange and debate of ideas about the practice of policy making. Seeing...
2010 | former doctoral students
wrote about the construction of space in peace-building, drawing on fieldwork at the UN and in Timor-Leste. She is now Strategic Assessment Architect at the Scottish Government.
2010 | former doctoral students
wrote about the changing conception of wilderness in Canadian identity, using material from pre- and post-war school books.
2010 | former doctoral students
studied the work of professional ‘engagers’ in public participation processes, and now teaches public policy at the University of Edinburgh.
2010 | former doctoral students
completed her thesis on creating, implementing and resisting the National Care Homes Contract in Scotland and is now Head of Impact and Engagement at IRISS.
