The Knowledge and Policy Summer School

Brussels, 21-23 September 2011, Invitation to apply (May 20th )

Are you researching in social or public policy? Governments everywhere claim that they are making policy based on evidence.

Our research project has been scrutinising the policy-knowledge relationship and we have developed resources that you may find helpful.

The “knowledge and policy” summer school will provide support to PhD students wishing to study the relationship between knowledge and policy across Europe.

This is a competitive call. Successful applicants will be awarded a grant to cover their travel and accommodation costs.

Applications should include a brief CV, the preferred sessions (selected from the list below) and a one to two page argument explaining the relationship between the applicant’s research interests and the summer school’s objectives as reflected in the description of the sessions below.

The summer school offers young researchers a forum to deepen their academic skills and extend their networking. The methodology for the summer school requires each participant to act as a discussant for one session: each participant will be assigned a specific paper that he/she will present and discuss, in relation to his/her own work.

Program overview

The summer school will address the following key questions and issues :

* What is knowledge?

* Forms of knowledge: embodied, encoded, enacted?

* Researching the powerful, interviewing the elite

* Does experience-based knowledge matter?

* Knowledge and knowledge regimes

* Knowledge, policy and the problem of comparison

* Trends and changes in the knowledge – policy relationship

* Knowledge based regulation tools

* Public action, or the analysis of complexity

See the detailed programme

Applications should be sent by May 20th by email to bernard.delvaux@uclouvain.be, eric.mangez@uclouvain.be and F.Schoenaers@ulg.ac.be (address to all three)

Applications (in Word doc attachment) should contain the following information:

* name, surname, postal address, email address

* name of the university/institution

* name of thesis director (when possible)

* a brief CV (one page), including publications (if any)

* the title and subject of the PhD project

* a one-page argument emphasizing relationships between the applicant’s research interests and the summer school’s objectives

* the 3 preferred sessions (in order of preference 1 to 3)

* expected costs for travelling to Brussels

* number of nights (a maximum of 4 nights will be funded by the summer school)

Practical details

The summer school will be held in Brussels, at the Fondation Universitaire, Rue d’Egmont 11, 1000 Brussels. It will start at 10 am on Wednesday 21 September and will end at 5 pm on Friday 23 September. Information about possible accommodation will be sent to successful applicants in good time. The summer school will be held in English

The organizing committee

Bernard Delvaux, Eric Mangez, Université catholique de Louvain

Frederic Schoenaers, Université de Liège

The scientific committee

Iván Bajomi, Eötvos Lórand University, Hungary

João Barroso, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Bernard Delvaux, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Gábor Eross, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Richard Freeman, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Adel Kiss, University of Transylvania – Sapientia, Romania

Eric Mangez, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

Christian Maroy, Université de Montréal, Canada

Philippe Mossé, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Armin Nassehi, Ludwig-Maximilian Universität, Germany

Jenny Ozga, University of Oxford, UK

Helge Ramsdal, Østfold University College, Norway

Frederic Schoenaers, Université de Liège, Belgium

Agnès van Zanten, SciencesPo, CNRS, France

More information on the website

www.knowandpol.eu Project n°0288848-2 funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Program