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Using People's Feelings of Happiness to Make Better Policy Decisions?
How we spend our time directly impacts how satisfied we are with our lives, and understanding the activities that bolster our wellbeing can help policymakers make better decisions when allocating resources. Research is helping them do just that.
Modern Government and Science Advice
Governments need to understand science. This is obvious when thinking about defense and security, health, or the challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, but it is true for all areas of government activity.
The Global Science Partnership: A toolkit for including policymaking for climate change
The Global Science Partnership: A toolkit for including policymaking for climate change
The toolkit walks through six steps to achieve more effective and inclusive climate policymaking, based on learnings from citizen engagement and science research pilots worldwide.
Economist group argues for scientific experimentation in environmental policymaking
Economist group argues for scientific experimentation in environmental policymaking
The economists say more frequent use of up-front experiments would result in more effective environmental policymaking in areas ranging from pollution control to timber harvesting across the world.
Analysis of COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Policy in Finland: a Transformative Policy Mix Approach
Analysis of COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Policy in Finland: a Transformative Policy Mix Approach
This paper studies the national implementation, in Finland, of the European Union (EU) programme for COVID-19 recovery, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), as an example of a cross-sectoral policy programme.
To Save Society from Digital Tech, Enable Scrutiny of How Policies Are Implemented
To Save Society from Digital Tech, Enable Scrutiny of How Policies Are Implemented
Well-designed policies alone cannot prevent social harm from new technologies. Instead, watchdogs must have tools to scrutinize how such policies are implemented, paving the road for digital accountability.
For the First Time Ever, the White House Adopts a Model Scientific Integrity Policy
Bridging the Gap Between Research and Policy: Lessons from Co-Creation in the Aid Sector
Bridging the Gap Between Research and Policy: Lessons from Co-Creation in the Aid Sector
There is an increasing focus in academic and policy circles on research-policy partnerships. These partnerships are often achieved through co-creation, whose role in international relations remains underdeveloped.
Human Embryo Science: Can the World's Regulators Keep Pace?
Concerned by the speed of research, policymakers are looking for alternative ways to establish rules on genome editing and other technologies.
All at Sea: Call for New Body to Bridge the Science - Policy Divide and Save the Oceans
All at Sea: Call for New Body to Bridge the Science - Policy Divide and Save the Oceans
An international initiative to establish a new body to protect the world's oceans is taking shape. The goal is to build a scientific consensus and shape policies to protect, conserve and restore them.
Taking Trash into Their Own Hands - Community Science to Policy
Community effort to systematically count and categorize trash in the Pinole watershed led to the prioritization of locations and trash types that informed recommendations for local government policy.
Keep Scientists in the Research Room and out of Politics
Keep Scientists in the Research Room and out of Politics
The simple messaging favoured by media advisers doesn't chime with a discipline that is messy and incomplete.
Finland Sets Sights on Higher R&D Intensity After Overhauling State Spending Policies
Biden Calls for Boosts in Science Spending to Keep US Competitive
Biden Calls for Boosts in Science Spending to Keep US Competitive
Facing a potential re-election battle next year, President Joe Biden laid out broad funding priorities for the US government on 9 March. His proposed budget for 2024 would invest new research funds into a range of programmes designed to achieve goals in scientific innovation, domestic manufacturing and clean energy, among others.
Open Science-related Policies in Europe
This study aims to review the open science (OS) policy documents, identify their subject areas, and distinguish the topics of OS support policies in seven European countries, providing a platform for practical cooperation between countries in science popularization.
G-7 Science Academies Call for Actions to Improve Climate Change Decision-Making, Protect Ocean Biodiversity, and Support Well-Being of Older People
G-7 Science Academies Call for Actions to Improve Climate Change Decision-Making, Protect Ocean Biodiversity, and Support Well-Being of Older People
Today the science academies of the G-7 countries issued three joint statements to their respective governments to inform discussions during the G-7 summit to be held in Hiroshima, Japan, in May, as well as ongoing policymaking.
Measuring Societal Impact: How to Go Beyond Standard Publication Metrics
EU Project Seeks to Improve Use of Scientific Evidence in Policy Making
A new EU project is aiming to promote the role and use of scientific knowledge in policymaking in seven participating member states, after current shortcomings came under the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Role of Science in the Swiss Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Role of Science in the Swiss Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
What role did science play in managing the Covid-19 pandemic from January to December 2020? In what way did the Swiss experience differ from selected other countries? Where is there a need for action in the future?
Researchers Engaging with Policy Should Take into Account Policymakers' Varied Perceptions of Evidence
Researchers Engaging with Policy Should Take into Account Policymakers' Varied Perceptions of Evidence
This post highlights four different approaches to evidence in policymaking and suggest how researchers and policy organisations might use these findings to engage differently with policy
Food Systems Transformation Requires Science-Policy-Society Interfaces That Integrate Existing Global Networks and New Knowledge Hubs - Nature Food
White House Releases First-of-a-Kind Indigenous Knowledge Guidance for Federal Agencies | CEQ | The White House
White House Releases First-of-a-Kind Indigenous Knowledge Guidance for Federal Agencies | CEQ | The White House
Today, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) jointly released new government-wide guidance and an accompanying implementation memorandum for Federal Agencies on recognizing and including Indigenous Knowledge in Federal research, policy, and decision making. This announcement coincides with the Biden-Harris Administration's 2022 Tribal Nations Summit and…
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