Auckland Policy Commons

There is an accepted need to bridge the gap between academic research and public policy. Knowledge brokers, individuals or organisations sympathetic to both research and policymaking cultures and able to mediate between the two, represent one way of doing so. Sarah Quarmby takes a look inside a knowledge broker organisation, the Wales Centre for Public Policy, to see how its day-to-day workings tally with the body of knowledge about evidence use in policymaking.

In less than a decade the impact agenda has evolved from being a controversial idea to an...

Being able to demonstrate the impacts of research outside of academia has become a standard...