Enhancing the Impact of Research on Policy making
12/03/09
Public Lecture: “Enhancing the Impact of Research on Policy making”
Time: 18:30
Location: CRRC-Azerbaijan, Khazar University, 122 Bashir Safaroglu Street, Baku
Overview: While public policy aims to resolve social issues such as poverty, welfare and care provision, social exclusion and crime, often the full value of social science research into these and other social issues has not been properly recognized by policy makers. This presentation will consider the challenges facing the academic and research community of providing better evidence for policy makers. It will look at what kind of evidence governments and policy makers need and at how best to get governments to use research evidence. There will be some discussion of the tensions and contradictions that can occur as politicians attempt to balance ‘research evidence’ with ideological influences and public and media perceptions.
Lecturer Bio: Dr Ann Marie Gray is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Administration at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. She is also Policy Director of ARK (Access to Research and Knowledge in Northern Ireland). ARK’s goal is to carry out high quality research and make information on social issues available to the widest possible audience. In doing so it seeks to inform and stimulate policy debate and contribute to more effective policy making. Dr Gray’s research interests include the relationship between lone parenthood and poverty and social exclusion, Youth policy and social attitudes. She is currently an Open Society Institute International Scholar at Baku State University where she is working on the development of the Social Work Programmes.
Language: The lecture will be conducted in English.
Registration: To attend the lecture, please confirm your participation by December 2, 2009 writing to the following e-mail address: yulia@crrccenters.org