Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to potentially interested parties.
On the 23rd and 24th of April 2009 the LSE and the National Centre for
Social Research (NatCen) are hosting a conference entitled 'Informing Public
Policy: New Agendas for Social Research'. The conference examines the
evolving relationship between social research and policy. Questions
considered include:
Q: How has the relationship between social research and public policy evolved?
Q: How successfully has social research influenced policy making?
Q: How can we adapt to meet the needs of policy makers in a changing
political landscape?
Q: Where do we go from here? What are the challenges that lay ahead?
Speakers include:
• Paul Wiles (Chief Scientific Advisor to the Home Office and Director of
Research, Development and Statistics), • Howard Glennerster (Professor
Emeritus of Social Administration at the LSE and Co-Director of the Centre
for the Analysis of Social Exclusion), • Robert Walker (Professor of Social
Policy, University of Oxford) and • Colm o’Muircheartaigh (Professor in the
Harris School, University of Chicago, and Vice President for statistics and
methodology in the National Opinion Research Center).
In addition to key-note speakers there are six parallel sessions, each of
which focuses on specific substantive areas of empirical enquiry. The
website conference is: http://www.promarta.co.uk/ipp/.
I am contacting you because one session is on 'crime and criminal justice'.
This session considers the intersection of social research and public policy
in the area of crime and criminal justice. We welcome papers that cover,
variously but not exclusively, experience of conducting research that seeks
to inform policy, experience of using/guiding research to shed light on
policy (for example, evaluation of interventions), and studies into
policy-relevant criminological areas of enquiry. Please bear in mind the
broad objective of the conference, which is to illuminate the dynamics and
pragmatics at play in policy-relevant social research. We are especially
keen to receive papers from a broad consistuency, and we encourage
submissions from academics, civil servants, criminal justice practitioners,
think-tank researchers, and so forth.
Submissions should be sent to me at: [log in to unmask] I should stress
that deadline for abstracts is 13th February, with decisions communicated on
28th February.
With best regards,
Jon
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Dr Jonathan Jackson
Lecturer in Research Methodology
Methodology Institute
London School of Economics tel +44 (0)20 7955 7652
Houghton Street fax +44 (0)20 7955 7005
London WC2A 2AE, UK e-mail [log in to unmask]
Website:
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