How to win friends and influence policy: a guide for new researchers

Katy Jones

Chapter 24 in How to Engage Policy Makers with Your Research, 2022, pp 249-258 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Informing and impacting policy is an important, but difficult, skill for researchers to develop. Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in particular can struggle to identify how they can engage with policymakers, despite often not possessing the profile and networks held by senior colleagues, or the backing of large scale funding. Drawing on an example of a small-scale, ECR-led project funded by the ESRC's Productivity Insights Network, this chapter shows how policy engagement is possible regardless of the scale of a research project, and how continued engagement has the potential to lead to bigger and better things. The chapter gives advice on making research findings accessible to a wide audience, engaging with the policymaking process in a variety of ways, and developing good relationships with policymakers. It also emphasises the importance of supportive colleagues and frameworks for ECR development in policy engagement.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Education; Geography; Innovations and Technology; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy; General Academic Interest; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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