2021 | book, home, research
is now free to access at doingpolitics.space. I want to write about politics as something people do, to describe a politics grounded in human action and interaction – in the gathering and meeting, talking and writing of embodied and situated human beings…
2019 | home, journal paper, research
This paper picks up a theme from the recent literature on the councillor, that of time spent in meeting, and suggests that if we are to understand the role of the councillor we must understand the work the meeting does. The discussion is based in a series of...
2019 | current doctoral students
is visiting from Radboud University in Nijmegen, studying experimentalist governance among child welfare practitioners.
2019 | current doctoral students
is a Senior Economist with the World Bank’s Global Practice on Health, Nutrition and Population and is researching the governance of primary health care markets in Sweden.
2019 | former doctoral students
visited the SKAPE centre in 2017, while completing her PhD on evaluation research. She now has a postdoctoral position at Oslo Metropolitan University.
2019 | engagement, home, research
The question is important because making policy engages a great number of people one way or another, and what they do they might do well or badly. Our standard answers are rather hazy, not least because policy making entails such great numbers of people doing a great...
2019 | home, journal paper, research
Our prevailing accounts of the policy process are challenged by studies of practice as well as by practitioners themselves. This paper sets out an alternative, grounded in politics and sociology and informed by recent work in related disciplines. Drawing on the...
2018 | home, research, teaching
For a meeting of the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, 19 November 2018… The aim of this presentation is simply to set out a framework for studying ‘doing politics’, and to discuss ways of using it in teaching as well as...
2018 | chapter in book, home, research
Policy makers and commentators refer readily to ‘the European project’, as though Europe itself were a project. But what would it mean to take this term seriously, to develop the account of European governance it seems to suggest? This chapter begins on the ground, in the everyday understanding of the project as an organizational form…
2017 | home, journal paper, Leigh D : Freeman R, teaching
The ‘practice turn’ and its associated ontology, epistemology and methodology are now well established in political research. In this article, we identify and explore a corollary pedagogy. After outlining the principal components of practice theory, we compare case-...
2017 | book, engagement, Freeman R : McHardy F : Murphy D (eds), home
Equality is a hugely important topic for most Scots and many of us want to see a more equal society. But what kind of equality do we want, and how, in practice, might we achieve it? This book brings together a group of experienced practitioners from across the country...
2017 | teaching
leads the teaching component of the Doing Politics project, and was taught for the first time as an undergraduate option in 2014-2015…
2017 | teaching
You’ve just joined a government department with responsibility for a key policy domain. There’s an election due in a couple of months, and your team has been asked to supply a briefing for the incoming minister…
2017 | home, journal paper, research
served as postscript to Vicky Singleton, Claire Waterton and Natalie Gill’s new Sociological Review Monograph on Care and Policy Practices…
