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Deliberative Research for Deliberative Policy Making: Creating and Recreating Evidence in Transport Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2011

Lesley Murray
Lesley Murray*
Affiliation:
School of Applied Social Science, University of Brighton E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Despite promotion of evidence-based policy responses, there remains a knowledge gap between policy-makers and academia particularly in transport policy making, which is steeped in positivist traditions. A number of social policy academics have conceptualised research utilisation in relation to particular elements of social policy, but less attention has been paid to the integration of deliberative and interpretative research into transport policy. This article explores this through a study of the journey to school that used mobile and visual methods in an in-depth exploration of this element of everyday life.

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Social Policy and Society , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 459 - 470
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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