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Engaging with Public Policy: AHRC Workshop
1. Engaging with public policy
AHRC Workshop
12 July 2013
Hugh Whittall
Director
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
2. Policy and academic expertise
• In-house expertise
• External expertise
• Matching policy needs with academic
expertise
• Policy is messy!
3. Routes into policy involvement
• As an individual expert
• Delivering research
• Committee membership
4. The academic’s contribution
• The value of their research
• Analytical abilities
• Translation of research into practice
• Wider communication and networks
5. Some examples
• Retained Organs Commission
Human Tissue legislation
• Organ Donation Task Force
• Nuffield Council on Bioethics
• Neonatal Critical Care
• Forensic Bioinformation
• Public Health
• Emerging Biotechnologies
6. Some thoughts.....
• Policy is everywhere
• Initiate contact and stay in view
• Step outside your zone
• Don’t be purist
• Be flexible
• Look outside your discipline (talk to practitioners
and social scientists!)
• Don’t expect many clear causal links between
research and policy outcomes