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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
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Wescott, Stephanie – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2022
A trend towards evidence-based practice has developed in policy and practice in the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia in recent years, evolving to become a powerful hegemonic force. This paper considers this latest impetus to teach according to the mandates of a narrow evidence base as a symptom of the post-truth condition, one that…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Trend Analysis, Foreign Countries, Educational Trends
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Spowart, Lucy; Winter, Jennie; Turner, Rebecca; Muneer, Reema; McKenna, Colleen; Kneale, Pauline – International Journal for Academic Development, 2017
In this paper we report the outcomes of a national survey of academic development staff in a range of UK HE Institutions to consider the approaches adopted to evaluate teaching-related continual professional development (CPD). Despite the increasing drive towards accountability, the majority of respondents undertook no benchmarking to establish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Professional Continuing Education, Faculty Development