Roundtable:
Leading Innovation: A New Framework That Links Academic Research and Expertise to the Policymaking Process
(The Impacts of Politics on the Policy Process)
Friday, November 4, 2016: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Northwest (Washington Hilton)
*Names in bold indicate Presenter
Roundtable Organizers: Angela M Evans, University of Texas, Austin
Moderators: Neil Kleiman, New York University
Speakers: Angela M Evans, University of Texas, Austin, Jonathan Koppell, Arizona State University, Eric Schwartz, University of Minnesota and David Birdsell, Baruch College - CUNY
Roundtable participants will discuss new impact-focused approaches that vastly increases the relevance of research activities and graduate level training to address policy problems. Participants will be deans of public policy schools who have been working together around such efforts and have been on the leading edge of establishing formal partnerships with national and local policymakers. There will also be a discussion of successful initiatives in this area including large-scale efforts with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, National Science Foundation, U.S. Census Bureau and numerous mayors around the U.S. The examples will be pieced together into a working framework that will demonstrate ways that schools of public policy and public administration are positively informing policy throughout the country. This panel will also offer conference attendees the opportunity to participate in, and contribute to, this growing movement and set of activities. The session will: Identify the opportunities and challenges, incentives and disincentives, that exist within the research-academic-policy nexus; Describe how such efforts help break down internal silos and traditional disciplinary boundaries; Engage audience participants in how best to expand such efforts.
