How Universities can Organise themselves to Unlock Research for Policy
The Geary Institute for Public Policy would like to invite you to join us for the seminar ‘How Universities can Organise themselves to Unlock Research for Policy’ which will take place on Thursday 25th April 2024 from 12.00pm to 1.00pm at the Newman Building, room NEWM B109 ALE.
Professor Mark Boyle and Seán Ó Foghlú are working in Maynooth University to support the enhancement of the links between research undertaken there and policy-making. They have undertaken a widespread consultative process in Maynooth University and reviewed some of the supporting organisational arrangements in place in universities in Ireland and internationally and research on these arrangements.
The consideration of these issues is timely in the context of the consultation underway by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science on a National Framework for Engagement which is to be established this year. While there is a lot of discussion underway about what either policy-makers or researchers should do, there has not been the same discussion about how universities should organise themselves internally and collectively to do so. This seminar aims to set this emerging discussion in context and to support its continuation with a view to assisting universities in realising their potential for input into policy-making.
There is no need to register in advance for this event.
About the speakers
Prof. Mark Boyle works in the Geography Department and is also part of the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute. He headed up the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place in the University of Liverpool from 2017-2021.
Seán Ó Foghlú is working in the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute. He is on secondment from the civil service, following 10 years as Secretary General of the Department of Education from 2012 to 2022.