May 23, 2019 | Policy Commons Blog
By Susan St John – The media continues to miss the 19th century morality behind an out of control punitive culture at MSD. It’s time to step up, writes Susan St John. A mentally ill beneficiary whose malicious neighbour dobbed her in for so-called...
May 15, 2019 | Policy Commons Blog
By M. Claire Dale – *These are some of the key findings from the University of Auckland Summer Scholar research paper written by Nancy Chen, co-supervised by M. Claire Dale and the Public Policy Institute. For our cities to be smart, they’ll have to cater...
May 3, 2019 | Policy Commons Blog
By Suzi Kerr, Steffen Lippert and Edmund Lou – International agreements addressing climate change must overcome the difficulties implied by the absence of an institution with the power to ensure compliance. They have to be self-enforcing: the threat of future...
May 3, 2019 | Policy Commons Blog
What do you do with research that produces potentially harmful results? In this post Andrew Crane, explores how research can produce negative as well as positive impacts on society and discusses how his own research group has approached dealing with the complex issue...
May 3, 2019 | Policy Commons Blog, Policy Pod
* Delivered on Tuesday 30 April for the Public Policy Institute, as part of the Global Speakers Series Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of Australia maintained knowledge traditions with their own philosophies and epistemologies that originated in ancient...
May 3, 2019 | Policy Commons Blog, Policy Pod
Hosted jointly by the Public Policy Institute and Compass, on 24 January 2019. Following nearly two decades of applied text analytics for social science and ten years actively developing analytic software for text analysis, this talk represents my top ten list of “If...
