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SUMMARY:PSI seminar series: Kathryn Oliver\, 'What makes evidence credible
  in policymaking?’
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DESCRIPTION:About the speaker \nProfessor Kathryn Oliver is a social scien
 tist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is interes
 ted in how we make\, mobilise and use evidence in policy and practice.  \n
 \nProfessor Oliver co-directs the research collaboration 'Transforming Evi
 dence'\, which brings together funders\, decision-makers\, practitioners a
 nd researchers from a range of disciplines and sectors. This collaboration
  aims to both do research on evidence production and use\, and to ensure t
 hat the research scientists do is used by policymakers. \n\nSeminar outlin
 e \nDebates about the role of evidence in policymaking have tended to focu
 s primarily on how to increase the influence of academic research evidence
  on policy. This approach to the role of knowledge in policy sidesteps the
  question of what types of knowledge are used and valued in policymaking\,
  and how different forms of knowledge may interact with policy. \n\nDrawin
 g on 55 interviews with policymakers and academics\, Professor Oliver will
  explore how personal/institutional characteristics and processes confer c
 redibility to knowledge for policy in informal and formal contexts.  \n\nU
 sing the generation of credibility as a lens to understand the effects of 
 these values on scientific and policy processes allows us to understand th
 e broader strengths and limitations of different forms of knowledge within
  the policy arena.  \n\nProfessor Oliver will close with some reflections 
 on transparency in policymaking\, and the implications of this for public 
 health.
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LOCATION:Big Data Institute\, Big Data Institute Old Road Campus  Oxford O
 xfordshire OX3 7LF United Kingdom
SPEAKER:Professor Kathryn Oliver (Professor of Evidence and Policy\, Londo
 n School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)
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