Public Policy Analysis Methods

What:

This hybrid condensed workshop will help participants to quickly grasp public policy analysis methods that are commonly used and to become familiar with how to write policy analysis findings. You will gain an overview of the methods and also have an opportunity to analyse sample data and discuss your thinking on the methods for your own research.

The facilitator: Dr Tae-Hee Choi

Dr Tae-Hee Choi has completed Research Grants Council Hong Kong funded research investigating the formation, implementation and impact of a new education privatisation policy, and published articles adopting various policy research methods journals including Compare and Journal of Education Policy. She is a co-convenor of the Policy Studies and Politics of Education network of the European Educational Research Association (EERA) and an editor of the Policy Research Methods section for the Handbook of Education Policy to be published by Bloomsbury.

Who:

This training is suitable for students across the Doctoral Training Partnership network including those moving from masters to doctoral studies or in the early stages of their doctorates. Where space is available it will be opened to other PGRs.

The detail:

This workshop combines lecture and hands-on analysis. It will start with conceptualising policy and an overview of policy research types. Then policy analysis methods that are commonly used for each type of policy research as well as recently (re)emerging methods will be introduced. You will then analyse sample data by adopting diverse methods to capture different phases of the policy process, e.g., discursive institutionalist analysis (policy agenda setting), and genre chain analysis (policy formulation). You will then share your own research projects and explore the methods that will best suit your purposes.