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M Doyle

M Doyle has written 281 posts for Essex CAJI

Evidence-based policy – Problem 2: Should academics be expected to change policy? Six reasons why it is unrealistic for research to drive policy change

This is the second piece in our theme this week on how academic researchers can influence policy. The first piece, by Nick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, is available here. This piece, by James Lloyd, Director of the Strategic Society Centre, originally appeared on the LSE Impact Blog and is reposted under … Continue reading

Evidence-based policy – Problem 1: Getting academic research to government policy makers

This week UKAJI focuses on research impact and in particular how academic researchers can influence policy. This issue has been highlighted in a recent inquiry by Sir Stephen Sedley, who considered the scale and significance of non-publication of government-commissioned research. His report, Missing Evidence,  found that only 4 out of 24 government departments maintain a database of … Continue reading

Call for abstracts: Public Law Reform Now

If you could change just one thing about the judicial control of administration, what would it be? Abstracts considering this question are invited for a conference to be held at the University of Sussex on 20 September 2016. Note: The deadline for abstracts is Friday 24 June 2016. Public Law Reform Now forms part of the … Continue reading

Ombuds and national human rights institutions: Still learning to speak the same language?

By Dr Nick O’Brien, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Liverpool Some reflections on an international conference in Belfast, 26-27 May 2016, on Human Rights: A 21st Century Approach to the Work of Ombudsmen The ombuds institution in the UK, ever since its reception in 1967, has been associated chiefly, in its public-sector form at least, … Continue reading

Seminar on initial decision-making, internal review and administrative justice

Mandatory reconsideration is something of a hybrid feature of administrative justice. In terms of design, this is obvious. It is a form of redress in one sense, but it is also a form of primary decision-making in another. By Robert Thomas and Joseph Tomlinson, School of Law, University of Manchester We recently held a joint UKAJI/University … Continue reading