Public Policy and Governance Group (PPGG)

Welcome to the webpages of the Public Policy and Governance Group (PPGG) based in the University of 番茄视频’s Politics Department.

Members of the PPGG have expertise across a wide range of public policy theories, issues and methodologies. We publish in high impact generalist and specialist journals and in practitioner-oriented publications. Many of our members are also members of the and collaborate in networks both within and beyond the cluster on a range of .

Key areas of research interest for the PPGG include behavioural policy and experimental methods, deliberative policymaking and citizen governance, the interface between politics and policymaking, environmental policy, European governance, gender and public policy, implementation, health policy, regulatory governance, the organisation of public services, the regulation of the digital economy, global governance and global public policy. We approach these topics from a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Research projects

Teaching

Members of the Group deliver:

We also teach a variety of related PGT and UG modules. We supervise PhD students from around the world on the whole range of public policy and public administration research for more information see .

Members of the Group include:

Member	Interests
	Politics and International Relations
	Gender and public policy, health policy, criminal justice, law & public policy
	Evidence-based policy, impact assessment, policy learning, regulatory governance, theories of the policy process
	Agenda setting and the policy process; gender+/sexual+ equality policy; morality politics and policy; comparative methods
	Political elites; comparative parliaments; special advisers; global governance
	Delegation, government outsourcing, economic governance
	Regulatory competition, internet governance, standard developing organisations

	Behavioural public policy and administration, political participation, evidence in politics and policy
	Public Policy and Administration
	European integration, Brexit, democracy, the politics of the digital, smartphones
	Behavioural public policy and administration, political and civic engagement, environmental policy, democratic innovations

	Environmental policy, science-policy interactions, policy appraisal

Affiliated Group Members:

Member	Interests
	Rural sociology, Geography, farm households
	Science-policy interactions; governance and the public sphere; environment, agricultural and health policy

Doctoral Researchers:

Name	Working with	Interests and projects
Ibrahim Bornoma	David Benson, Nick Kirsop-Taylor and Duncan Russel	Energy Transitions, Nigeria, Energy Politics
Mehmet Metin Uzun	Oliver James and Ana Bedushi	Regulatory governance, science and technology policy, AI governance and regulation.
Sophie Stenson	Oliver James and Lewis Elliott	RENEW Project in Sustainable Governance and Environmental Volunteering
Sen Lin	Oliver James and Andrei Zhirnov	Behavioral public administration, coproduction of public service and trust in government

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