Policy Pod
The Policy Pod is a series of thought-provoking informal conversations about policy design, advocacy, and critical analysis that explore key policy issues affecting New Zealand, the Asia Pacific, and the global community.
We talk to expert policy researchers and practitioners from a wide range of fields about the ways in which their work can contribute to evidence-informed policy-making.
Climate Change: The Carbon Challenge – Prof Myles Allen
This lecture was delivered for the Public Policy Institute at the University of Auckland on Tuesday 19 March 2019, as part of the Global Speakers Series. Leading the World to Net Zero: The opportunities and challenges of New Zealand’s Zero Carbon Act New Zealand's...
Professor Paul Cairney: Why don’t policymakers listen to my evidence, and how should I respond?
* Recorded with the University of Auckland Public Policy Institute, 11 October 2018 Since 2016, my most common academic presentation to interdisciplinary scientist/researcher audiences is a variant of the question, ‘why don’t policymakers listen to your evidence?’...
Accessibility Legislation: Legal and Policy Insights for New Zealand
By DAVID LEPOFSKY Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Toronto Visiting Professor of Legal Ethics and Public Interest Advocacy, Osgoode Hall Law School Canadian experience with accessibility legislation - what has Ontario done right or wrong on accessibility?...
Alasdair Jones: Mixed methods policy evaluation, bus fare concessions and public health impact
Alasdair Jones is an Assistant Professor in Qualitative Research Methodology at the London School of Economics, and an Associate at LSE Cities. In this episode of the Policy Pod he talks about ways of conceptualising the integration of qualitative methodologies and...
Professor Susan Himmelweit: ‘Holding Government to Account on Gender Equality’ ▶️
‘Holding Government to Account on Gender Equality: The experience of the UK Women’s Budget Group’ Since 1989, the UK Women’s Budget Group (WBG), a group of academics, activists and trade unionists, has tried to hold successive UK governments to account for the...
Magreet Frieling: The Community for Policy Research and the Living Standards Framework
Dr Margreet Frieling from the Office of the Chief Economic Advisor, talking about the Community for Policy Research and the Living Standards Framework. [video width="1280" height="960"...
Brenda O’Neill: Policy termination and the case study of water fluoridation in Calgary
What factors lead governments to terminate policy? Although interest in policy termination has grown in recent years, it remains understudied relative to other parts of the policy cycle. This lack of attention is due in part to the relative infrequency of policy...
DAVID STEWART & BRENDA O’NEILL: ‘Should I Stay or Should I Go Now: Party Leader Exits’
The selection of party leaders in Canada, and internationally, has garnered an incredible amount of scholarly attention (Cross and Blais, 2012; O’Brien, 2015; Pilet and Cross, 2014). Much less attention has been paid to the ways in which party leaders leave their...
ALLAN GYNGELL: ‘The Uncertainty Principle: New Zealand and Australia in a Changing World’
Allan Gyngell is one of Australia’s leading public intellectuals, with expertise in Australia’s foreign policy and diplomatic history. He is a founder of the Lowy Institute (Australia’s leading foreign policy think tank), and currently serves as Director of the...
John Hewson: The Most Risky and Unpredictable Global Outlook in My Lifetime
The overlapping economic challenges and geo-political changes and tensions make the global economic scene riskier and more unpredictable than at any time since the late 1960s. Many of the key economic relationships that economists tended to take for granted seem to...
