Senior Research posts available at the Wales Centre for Public Policy The Wales Centre for Public Policy at Cardiff University is seeking 2 outstanding individuals to play key roles in developing and leading its work with public services including health, local government and schools: a Public Services Fellow & a Research Fellow. Public Services Fellow DEADLINE … Vacancies: Senior Research posts at the Wales Centre for Public Policy

Policy & Politics has just published a fascinating special issue which aims to translate insights from policy theories for a wider audience in order to gauge their quality and maximise their impact. The issue is free to download until the end of May at http://bit.ly/SIPracticalLessonsFromPolicyTheories so please take advantage of this great opportunity. 

Interpretive Policy Analysis Summer School: Conflict and sustainable futures  Amsterdam, 9-13 July 2018  This intensive PhD summer school (3 ECTS) will provide PhD candidates with in-depth knowledge of interpretive methodologies and theories to understand and intervene in conflicts about sustainable futures. The summerschool focuses on methodological innovations that take an integrated approach to the social, … Interpretive Policy Analysis Summer School: Conflict and sustainable futures

  The future of progressivism: Applying Follett’s thinking to contemporary issues Hosted by the John D. Rockefeller IV School of Policy and Politics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, July 12-14, 2018. Join scholars and practitioners from around the world for a multidisciplinary meeting of individuals who are passionate about Follett’s ideas from the fields of governance, conflict resolution, community development, and management and leadership. Discussion … The future of progressivism: Applying Follett’s thinking to contemporary issues

The Standing Group Theoretical Perspectives in Policy Analysis is happy to announce the following important Section at the upcoming ECPR general conference in Hamburg, August 22-25, 2018. The Section is jointly organised by the Interpretive Policy Analysis group (IPA) and ECPR Standing Group Theoretical Perspectives in Policy Analysis.  Please submit your panel and paper proposals … Call for Papers & Panels – ECPR 2018 Section – Deliberative Policy Analysis: Looking Back and Looking Forward

We would like to draw your attention to the Call for Papers on ‘Otherness and Empathy in Public Administration’ for a special issue in Administrative Theory and Praxis. The deadline is 1 November 2017. If you have any questions, please contact the guest editor Dr Dragan Stanisevski (dstanisevski@pspa.msstate.edu).

The Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna is hiring four junior researchers, namely: 2 PhD students for four years each, to work on political aspects of personalised medicine (more info here) and 2 post-doctoral fellows for six years each, to work on a) comparative health and/or technology policy (more info here) or … Vacancies at the University of Vienna

At the ECPR General Conference in Oslo we held a business meeting to discuss the development of the Standing Group. You can find the minutes under the ‘Resources’ tab. Please let us know in case you have any queries, comments or proposals. We are currently renewing our website and encourage you to submit news about … Standing Group news

The Standing Group is organising a Section at the ECPR general Conference 2017 in Oslo on ‘Relational Approaches to Policy Analysis: Knowing, Intervening and Transforming in a Precarious World’. An overview of the Section theme, panels and papers can be found here: https://ecpr.eu/Events/SectionDetails.aspx?SectionID=686&EventID=96

Has your university joined for 2013/14? Check the ECPR website here to find out whether, as a member, you could be entitled to a wide range of benefits.