Social Science Advisory Committee

Research, Policy & Practice

This presentation was held on 3 July at the Law Faculty, Victoria University, Wellington. Guest speakers included Professor Lois Bryson, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and University of Newcastle, Australia, Dr Sandra Nutley, Public Policy and Management University of St Andrews, Scotland, Professor Meredith Edwards, Director of the National Institute for Governance, University of Canberra, and Bob Stephens, School of Government, Victoria University of Wellington.

• Sandra Nutley: Evidence Based Policy and Practice: Cross Sector Lessons from the UK. Keynote Paper for the Social Policy Research and Evaluation Conference, Wellington, NZ (PDF, 140K); the slides from her presentation (PDF, 638KB)
• Meredith Edwards: Evidence from International Literature and Practice (PDF, 210KB)
• Lois Bryson: Women's Health Australia: Methods, Selected Results and Implications from The Australian Longitudinal Study of Women’s Health (PDF, 1.6MB)