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⏰ CALL FOR PAPERS Scottish politics conference co-organised by the SES, @ccc-research.bsky.social and hosted at @edinburghpir.bsky.social 12-13 May 2025 We look forward to welcoming researchers working on anything and everything related to Scottish politics a year out from the 2026 election 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🗳️

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"By joining forces, knowledge brokers can turn existing barriers into enablers, enhancing effectiveness at all levels" ✍🏼 @chriscvitanovic.bsky.social & @paulcairney.bsky.social say the time is right for a new Knowledge Brokering Community of Practice transforming-evidence.org/blog/the-inv...

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📣 New: The 'invisible work' of knowledge brokers - new study explores aims, roles and impacts. ✍️ @chriscvitanovic.bsky.social and @paulcairney.bsky.social discuss implications for practice transforming-evidence.org/blog/the-inv...

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The next UK Association for Public Administration conference will be at Ulster University on 11-12 September www.ukapa.org.uk/conference/u...

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I 'read' all of those articles. The 1st draft is 35k words (plus bibliography), which I need to fit into 20k. The bibliography is an extra 25k (good luck opening the file if you are curious - osf.io/hrbm2/files/... ). It is officially the length of a book, but not one you'd buy or enjoy.

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New Practically Speaking Article on PAR: The evolving practice of UK Government ministers by Leighton Andrews, Sarah Gilmore: https://buff.ly/4g62WpI

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"What is Qualitative Interviewing?" by Rosalind Edwards and Janet Holland, is available #Free2DownloadAndRead from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... #RPVQual #RPVMethods

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This is a good reason to revisit @sarahobolt.bsky.social's legendary "The Brexit vote: a divided nation, a divided continent" Brexit was popular among less-educated, poorer and older voters, and those with concerns about immigration and multi-culturalism #eusky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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What is public policy and why does it matter? Examples from education I’ve taken the old Policy in 500 Words: what is public policy and why does it matter? then mentioned AI and changed the examples from tobacco to (mostly Scottish) education policy (to accompany a lecture for EDUU9E2). The…

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Out tomorrow…..

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Our new book has a web page! @profbambra.bsky.social @profkatsmith.bsky.social

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PSA Prize nominations close tomorow - why not nominate someone (or put yourself forward)? Prizes research, teaching and overall contribution at a range of career stages. www.psa.ac.uk/academic-pri...

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Out now! @paulcairney.bsky.social, @allegrafullerton.bsky.social, E. St. Denny & C. Weible explore U.S. policy theories in Europe, proposing new trends and a research agenda in the new SI, guest edited by C. Weible. #PolicyStudies #WileyPolitics #STEP_APSA onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Policy process theories in Europe: A survey of who uses them, where, and why onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Colleagues fascinating work on the stone of destiny fragments! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Stealing rare animals and making them fight each other or get me candy

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Trying to do a literature review of 750+ texts (almost half-way through). I reckon that the act of citation alone will produce 3000 words (author et al date * 750). It has become an endurance test for me, I resent the concepts I'm studying, and I pity the eventual reader of this thing. Enjoy!

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Another really cool article out today. @profkatsmith.bsky.social and Ellen Stewart on what lay people think about the political causes of health inequalities in Scotland. Beautiful use of systematic review to say something new. journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...

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Sarah Ayres (Bristol), @jacknewman.bsky.social, @geoffbates.bsky.social, Anna Le Gouais (Bristol), Rachael McClathey (Bristol) & @iprnickp.bsky.social have recently published ‘Are we any closer to tackling health inequalities in England?’ in Contemporary Social Science! 📖: https://buff.ly/3Pw3GZo

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Want to gain some editorial experience? Join @evidencepolicy.bsky.social as an Associate Editor! The call for AEs is here: evidenceandpolicyblog.co.uk/2025/01/10/e.... A brief application is due Feb 7. This was a good opportunity for me three years ago to get my feet wet at a great journal.

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3-stage review of research on collaboration: 1. Collaborative policymaking - published open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/4-204 2. Systems leadership - awaiting review open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-6... 3. Whole-of-government, policy integration & coherence - pit of despair

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Systems Leadership: a qualitative systematic review of advice for policymakers By Paul Cairney and Claire Toomey, University of Stirling. This post summarises our pre-print in Open Research Europe. It is the second of a three-part series of articles on collaborative policymaking. Abstract ‘Systems…

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A new story of Kingdon and the Multiple Streams Framework The following short story of the Multiple Streams Framework is one part of a forthcoming article – ‘Kingdon’s multiple streams framework: what happens next?’ - in an IRPP Symposium on Kingdon and the MSF. The idea is to narrate an updated…

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🧵 Some standout quotes from this paper, which uses the Prison Service as an example of how centralised political control can impoverish us when it annihilates the autonomy of people directly responsible for delivering public services: bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

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Well done Tom Stoltman for winning World's Strongest Man for Scotland... for a third time. 💪

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Finishing 2024 by watching a programme about a goblin who needs to get married so that his wife-to-be (Cinderella Potter) can remove a centuries old sword (that no-one else can see) from his midriff while he wears designer clothes and looks handsome in slow-mo and shares a house with a grim reaper.

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Thanks to the protein bar company that sent me a Christmas email. What a lovely touch.

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ICYMI, here's the starter pack on democratic innovations I created a few weeks ago: go.bsky.app/LX11yEA Gift them a follower this Christmas 🎄

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It needed to be said (and I'm hardly the first person to say any of this!!!) www.vox.com/future-perfe...

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Me, as author: I really want to get this paper sent to a journal before shutting down for the holidays. Me, as journal associate editor: I wish that authors would stop sending manuscripts until January 2. Reviewers aren't going to accept invitations.

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That's the first time I've been asked by a journal not to use chatGPT when reviewing an article. Not sure it occurred to me as an option - has anyone given it a go to see how good is the review?

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👏 Thank you to all our authors, reviewers, board members, readers and friends of Policy & Politics for another great year! 🥳To celebrate, we have made our top 10 most highly cited articles in 2024 free to access until 31 Jan 2025. Happy holiday reading! policyandpoliticsblog.com/2024/12/11/t...

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📣🆕Early View❗️ Assessing the concept of #StrategicState after 3⃣0⃣ years❓ @ianelliott.bsky.social & @alasdairroberts.bsky.social summarise lessons from reform experiments & discuss new societal trends which have reinforced the need for strategic capacity 👇 doi.org/10.1111/1467...

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✨Our article with @jekantol.bsky.social on Feminist institutional responses to antigender politics in parliamentary contexts is now published in the last issue of this year in International Feminist Journal of Politics ✨ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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I'm now firmly part of the concept inflation race: your problem is wicked, theirs is super-wicked, mine is ultra-wicked; your thing is a system, theirs is a system-of-systems, mine is a system-of-systems-of-systems. Please see my project on the system-of-systems-of-systems-of-ultra-wicked problems

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