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Report: International trends and reforms in pension policy and delivery: comparative models for accumulation and decumulation

By Jennifer Curtin and Yanshu Huang A research report prepared for the Commission for Financial Capability’s Review of Retirement Income Policy, July 2019. The Public Policy Institute (PPI) was commissioned by the Commission for Financial Capability to deliver with...

Jan 20, 2020

Report: A Review of Gender Differences in Retirement Income

Jan 20, 2020

By Jennifer Curtin and Yanshu Huang (2019) A research report prepared for the Commission for Financial Capability’s Review of Retirement Income Policy, July 2019. This review seeks to answer the following questions: How wide is the Gender Pension Gap in New...

Jan 20, 2020

Report: ‘Relationship Status’ and the Welfare System in Aotearoa New Zealand

By Jennifer Curtin and Olivia Healey (2019) This report is designed to provide a contextual...

Nov 26, 2019

Watch Helen Clark on The Sustainable Development Goals and their Relevance to New Zealand

'The Sustainable Development Goals and their Relevance to New Zealand’ Where did we get to with...

Nov 26, 2019

Policy Pod: Enough of experts: does Brexit spell the slow death of British science and evidence-informed decision-making?

Professor James Wilsdon (Professor of Research Policy, University of Sheffield) Recorded:...

Oct 28, 2019

Evidence-informed policymaking: does knowledge brokering work?

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.

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Public Lecture: Enough of experts: does Brexit spell the slow death of British science and evidence-informed decision-making?

Professor James Wilsdon (Professor of Research Policy, University of Sheffield) Date: Tuesday 12 November Time: 12-1pm Venue: Pat Hannan Room (207-501) Enough of experts: does Brexit spell the slow death of British science and evidence-informed decision-making? The...

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Watch Helen Clark on The Sustainable Development Goals and their Relevance to New Zealand

Nov 26, 2019

'The Sustainable Development Goals and their Relevance to New Zealand’ Where did we get to with the Millennium Development Goals? Why should we care about the SDGs? What is their significance, globally, and for NZ? How much impact could they have on policy...

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Policy Pod: Enough of experts: does Brexit spell the slow death of British science and evidence-informed decision-making?

Nov 26, 2019

Professor James Wilsdon (Professor of Research Policy, University of Sheffield) Recorded: Tuesday 12 November at the University of Auckland Enough of experts: does Brexit spell the slow death of British science and evidence-informed decision-making? The UK is...