Social Science and Public Policy
Richard Freeman
The Policy Impact and Knowledge Exchange Network (PIKEN) brought together early career researchers from local and national government, the third sector and universities across Scotland in a series of meetings in 2009-2010 to explore the relationship between research and policy: for more, click on the header above.
The Public Policy Network
The Public Policy Network aims to promote communication and collaboration among researchers, policymakers and practitioners in Edinburgh, across Scotland and beyond: for more, click on the header above.
Mental health policy: 'learning what we know'
Our work in the KNOWandPOL project describes the process by which the mental health policy community in Scotland and in Europe comes to 'know what it knows'...
Research into policy
Richard Freeman is Director of the University of Edinburgh's Public Policy Network (PPN), which works to promote communication and collaboration among researchers, policy makers and practitioners in Edinburgh, across Scotland and beyond. He was co-director of PIKEN (the Policy Impact and Knowledge Exchange Network), which brought together early-career policy researchers from central and local government, universities and the voluntary sector in Scotland.
He was formerly Director of Knowledge Transfer in the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh (2007-2009), and contributes regularly to seminars and workshops on knowledge transfer and exchange.
Advice
His research expertise is used in a range of settings, notably in mental health policy and practice. He was a member of the Scottish Government's National Reference Group which informed its strategy document Towards a Mentally Flourishing Scotland. He is a member of a WHO Europe Working Group on mental health policy indicators and consulted to the recent Pittsburgh Conference on Social Inclusion and the Transformation of Mental Health Services. He is on the Board of the Scottish Development Centre for Mental Health.
Consultancy
He has also worked as consultant to the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, the US federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma.
Dr Richard Freeman
School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
21 George Square, Edinburgh
EH8 9LD
+44 131 650 4680