Social Science and Public Policy
Richard Freeman
A new paper in Environment and Planning A explores how we might think of policy as something that moves...
Evidence, policy - and practice
Richard Freeman, Steven Griggs and Annette Boaz edited a recent special issue of Evidence and Policy on the practice of policy making...
Classics of Community Psychiatry
has just been published by Oxford. Introduced by Richard Freeman and Michael Rowe, it is an innovative collection of written material on mental health work outside the hospital...
KNOWandPOL reports
Empirical work on the KNOWandPOL project is now complete. Reports on aspects of mental health policy in Scotland and in Europe are free to download...
Mental Health Conversations
The Public Policy Network's Mental Health Conversations are about the way we experience and respond to mental health and illness, both as individuals and as a society...
Richard Freeman teaches theory and method in the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, where he is also Director of the University's Public Policy Network. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and Jean Monnet Fellow, and has held visiting positions at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Bremen, the Institut d'Études Politiques ('Sciences Po'), Paris and at Yale University, New Haven.
His work is now concerned with what policy makers know, with what they do and with the relationship between the two. It is drawn to the uncertainties of policy making, especially as they emerge and are addressed in international interaction. It combines comparative social and public policy with the sociology of knowledge, and is expressed in a range of research projects, fellowships and consultancies in health and mental health policy in Scotland, Europe and the US.
Richard Freeman is author of The Politics of Health in Europe (Manchester UP, 2000) and co-editor of Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care (Yale UP, 2009), Social Policy in Germany (Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994) and Welfare and Culture in Europe (Jessica Kingsley, 1999), as well as more than fifty other journal articles and chapters in books.
Dr Richard Freeman
School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
21 George Square, Edinburgh
EH8 9LD
+44 131 650 4680