Our study aims to identify and understand the cognitive and intellectual roots of public policy decision making, to explore the ways of thinking which inform government. We are interested in three aspects of the relationship between knowledge and policy:
Our work is part of the bigger, integrated European project KNOWandPOL, which covers health and education policy in eight countries and at local, national and international levels. In Scotland, our partners are Jenny Ozga, Martin Lawn and Sotiria Grek of the Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh. You can find out more about their work here.
The project is funded by the European Commission and directed by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Solidarity and Social Innovation at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium. It is scheduled to last 5 years, from October 2006 to September 2011.
Dr Jennifer Smith-Merry, KNOWandPOL Research Fellow
School of Social and Political Science, Chrystal Macmillan Building,This page was published on 8 June 2010