Oct 31, 2017 | Policy Commons Blog
By Kieran Booluck – Previous posts in our series on the Impact of LSE Blogs project examined the effects of blogging on the academic sphere, looking more closely at citations to the original research outputs and also to the blog posts themselves. But what about...
Oct 31, 2017 | Policy Pod
Refugee quota campaigner Murdoch Stephens talks to Luke Goode about the Doing Our Bit campaign and its impact on policy. Murdoch Stephens (Massey University) has written on refugee issues for Fair Borders? (edited by David Hall, Bridget Williams Books) and...
Oct 27, 2017 | Policy Commons Blog
With Kevin Jenkins – Space has suddenly become big in New Zealand. Rocket Lab is just one example of what is starting to look like exponential growth in commercial activity, research is following a similar path, and the Government is active in policy and...
Oct 26, 2017 | Policy Commons Blog
By Tom Warshawski and Mary Lewis – Proposed restrictions on food and beverage advertising to kids should include youth up to age 16 We shield our children and young teenagers (16 and under) from many things: overt portrayals of sex and violence on TV and in...
Oct 26, 2017 | Policy Pod
* UPDATE: The incoming government have committed to double the refugee quota to 1500 a year by 2020 (‘Red Cross urges action on commitment to double refugee quota’ – Scoop, 25 October 2017)) Murdoch Stephens started the ‘Doing Our Bit’ campaign...
Oct 26, 2017 | Policy Commons Blog
By Len Cook – Some thoughts on what we need from our social services sector, the limitations imposed upon it and how using evidence and improving numeracy can help Managing the limitations of service delivery Sector level leadership is very difficult because of...
