What’s in public policy engagement for humanities researchers?

Research evidence and expertise from the humanities can benefit public policy decision making in myriad ways. However, as a researcher it can be a challenge to know how to engage with policymakers, what kind of impact your research might have, and importantly, how engaging with public policy can benefit your research. This workshop explores the rewards and challenges of public policy engagement from the perspective of humanities researchers at different career stages and considers practical ways to plan for policy engagement as a pathway to research impact. Speakers include Helen Small, Merton Professor of English Language and Literature; Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Classics; Rana Mitter, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China; and Charlotte Medland, the Innovation, Impact & Evaluation Facilitator for the Humanities Division.

Hosted by the Oxford Policy Engagement Network (OPEN) and TORCH, the session will be chaired by Dr Jennifer Crane, a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Faculty of History and member of the OPEN Steering Group. She has research interests in childhood, health, welfare, and activism. Her book is Childhood Protection in England, 1960-2000: Expertise, Experience, and Emotion.

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Please note, this event is only open to Oxford researchers.

You can contact Jessie Simkiss, Humanities and Public Policy Officer, at jessica.simkiss@theology.ox.ac.uk

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Policy engagement as a pathway to impact