Our focus
Our Public Policy Research Group investigates the interplay between academic research and policy making. The Research Group examines various modes of interaction at the interface between scientific knowledge production and political decision-making with emphasis on their impact on the policy process. We address a broad range of environmental policy domains by means of well-established as well as innovative methods of empirical social research. In addition to advancing scholarship in this area, our work aims to produce practice-oriented insights intended to inform and strengthen the Museum’s policy engagement activities.
Research questions
We specialise in exploring and analysing the possibilities and constraints of evidence-based policy design in complex problem settings at the intersection between society and nature. Our work follows three sets of research questions:
- Experimenting: which are innovative approaches to facilitating interactions between science and policy? And what are their effects on policy processes?
- Validating: which are the current models of science-policy interaction, and what are their comparative effects on policy processes?
- Transformation: what constitutes policy-relevant knowledge for nature? How can this knowledge be effectively translated into political practice?