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Tricia Corrin; Paul Cairney; Eric B. Kennedy – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2025
Background: COVID-19 accentuated an evergreen dilemma in evidence-informed policy making--the imperative to synthesise the best available evidence with limited time to produce high quality synthesis. The pandemic prompted the adaptation of evidence synthesis practices to match the urgency of the crisis, and heightened demand by policy makers,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Synthesis, COVID-19, Pandemics
Johanna Kallo; Jussi Välimaa – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2025
In response to uncertain times, liberal democracies aspire to develop anticipatory practices that usher in changes in policies and governance. These practices include creating visions and implementing roadmaps, which seek to address, and ultimately preempt, future challenges (Anderson, 2010). While such practices are increasingly implemented today…
Descriptors: Governance, Higher Education, Futures (of Society), Educational Policy
Constantinides, Michalis – Educational Review, 2023
The systemic changes in the education policy landscape in England under the academies reform movement have nurtured a growing prevalence of educational organisations such as Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) operating as meso-level institutional actors that shape the implementation of policies and mediate between social structures and individual…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Policy, Instructional Leadership, Foreign Countries
Chris Percy; Tristram Hooley – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2024
Return on investment (ROI) has become part of the policymaking toolkit, particularly pertinent for activities like school-based career guidance deemed optional by some policymakers. There are institutions supporting ideal ROI methods alongside an academic critique, but little research on how ROI has been applied in practice in a guidance setting.…
Descriptors: Career Guidance, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, Outcomes of Education
Louise Shaxson; Rick Hood; Annette Boaz; Brian Head – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2025
Background: Knowledge brokering plays an important role in the evidence-to-policy system, but little is known about whether and how it occurs within government departments. Aims and objectives: Using empirical evidence from one UK government department, this article analyses how knowledge brokering takes place inside the policy making process and…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Public Policy, Policy Formation, Evidence
Kapil Dev Regmi – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
In the countries that receive aid from donor agencies, the educational policymaking process is not straightforward because the power and interest of donors contradict with national contexts. This qualitative study aims to investigate how educational policy decisions in Nepal, a country that receives foreign aid for its educational projects, are…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Policy, Policy Formation, International Organizations
Matthew Falconer – Written Communication, 2024
Governments the world over require scientific knowledge to inform policy makers' decision-making processes. The recontextualization of this information for nonscientific audiences has received much attention, though it has primarily focused on publicly available texts. Little is known about the discursive nature of how science is transformed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Newson, Robyn S.; Rychetnik, Lucie; King, Lesley; Milat, Andrew J.; Bauman, Adrian E. – Research Evaluation, 2021
Current assessments of research impact have been criticized for capturing what can be easily counted not what actually counts. To empirically examine this issue, we approached measuring research impact from two directions, tracing forwards from research and backwards from policy, within a defined research-policy system (childhood obesity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evaluation Research, Research Projects, Research Utilization
Munatsi, Ronald – Journal of Information Literacy, 2023
This paper explored the link between information literacy (IL) and other factors that enable or inhibit the utilisation of research evidence in policymaking in Zimbabwe. The study assumes that if policymakers possess appropriate IL skills to access, assess, synthesise, and apply research evidence, they will naturally use the evidence to inform…
Descriptors: Information Literacy, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries, Decision Making
Anna Jobér – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
As the privatisation of the public sector has grown rapidly in Sweden in the last decade, private companies have become an imperative part of education. Private companies sell and deliver consultancy, hardware, software, services, etc. to schools and municipalities. This study examines a growing rate of activities from companies and businesses…
Descriptors: Privatization, Public Sector, Foreign Countries, Public Education
Gerblinger, Christiane – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2023
Background: Seeing how governments formulate decisions on our behalf is a crucial component of their ability to claim democratic legitimacy. This includes being seen to draw on the knowledge and evidence produced by their civil service policy advisers. Yet much of the advice provided to governments is being increasingly withdrawn from public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Policy Formation, Decision Making
Sofia Marques da Silva; Nicolas Martins Silva; Sara Arezes; Paulo Sérgio Martins; Sara Faria; Vitor Dias; Ana Milheiro Silva – Journal of Social Science Education, 2023
Purpose: This article aims to assess constraints on and facilitators of youth participation in rural border regions. Knowledge about regional participation of young people is useful for developing territorialised policies. Methodology: Using a mixed method approach designed in line with theories of civic and political participation and youth…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Foreign Countries, Citizen Participation, Decision Making
Verity Jones; Tessa Podpadec – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Young people are key stakeholders in the future, but their stake is rarely considered in decision making and policy development. In this paper we explore how climate change education can allow the voices of young people to be listened to and help young people imagine desirable futures and develop agency to address the steps, both personal and…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Adolescents, Preadolescents, Youth
Gita Steiner-Khamsi; Kerstin Martens; Christian Ydesen – Comparative Education, 2024
The article investigates how and when the two first movers in knowledge-based regulation -- the OECD and the World Bank -- developed policy brokerage as an instrument of global governance in the education sector. We also examine how their target clientele -- national governments -- responds to this instrument. Given the surplus of research…
Descriptors: Governance, Knowledge Economy, International Organizations, Policy Formation
Sellar, Sam; Gulson, Kalervo N. – Journal of Education Policy, 2021
New cognitive infrastructures are emerging as digital platforms and artificial intelligence enable new forms of automated thinking that shape human decision-making. This paper (a) offers a new theoretical perspective on automated thinking in education policy and (b) illustrates how automated thinking is emerging in one specific policy context. We…
Descriptors: Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Policy, Decision Making