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Paul Cairney, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling,Michael Keating, Emeritus Professor, University of Aberdeen,Sean Kippin, Lecturer in Public Policy, University of Stirling,Emily St Denny, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
Paul Cairney is Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling, UK (@Cairneypaul). His research spans comparisons of policy theories (Understanding Public Policy, 2020), and co-authored accounts of methods associated with key theories (Handbook of Complexity and Public Policy, 2015), international policy processes (Global Tobacco Control, 2012), and comparisons of UK and devolved policymaking (Why Isn't Government More Preventive?, 2020). He uses these insights to explain the use of evidence in policy and policymaking, in books (The Politics of Policy Analysis, 2021; The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making, 2016), articles, and blog posts: https://paulcairney.wordpress.com/ebpm/
Michael Keating is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Aberdeen and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, British Academy, Academy of Social Sciences and European Academy. He graduated MA from the University of Oxford and PhD from what is now Glasgow Caledonian University. He has taught at universities in the United Kingdom and Canada and the European University Institute. Recent books include Rescaling the European State (OUP 2013) and State and Nation in the United Kingdom (OUP 2021).
Sean Kippin is Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Stirling. He is the author of a number of publications covering British political and policymaking institutions, the UK Labour Party, and policy areas such as education and inequalities. He has a PhD in Politics and Public Policy from the University of the West of Scotland, where he also held a succession of teaching roles. Prior to this, he worked for the London School of Economics on the Democratic Audit UK and LSE Politics and Policy Blog projects.
Emily St.Denny is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen. She has previously worked as a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Stirling, and as a Research Assistant at the Public Policy Institute for Wales (Cardiff University) and at the Center on Constitutional Change (University of Stirling). She specialises in health policy and gender, and in the politics of policymaking in France and the devolved United Kingdom.
