Freeman R : Sturdy S | Richard Freeman

Doing comparison: producing authority in an international organization

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...

Knowledge, policy and coordinated action: mental health in Europe

2015 | chapter in book, Freeman R : Sturdy S

As a knowledge-based international agency, WHO offers a useful opportunity to explore the nature of knowledge in policy making.

Knowledge and policy in research and practice

2015 | chapter in book, Freeman R : Sturdy S

We sum up this volume by restating our initial ambition, which was to develop a framework for investigation rather than to formulate any specific theory.

Introduction: knowledge in policy – embodied, inscribed, enacted

2015 | chapter in book, 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.

Knowledge in policy: embodied, inscribed, enacted

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.