Doctoral Research Seminar: Knowledge in the Public Arena
11.800 · Urban Studies and Planning · Graduate · Spring 2007
Prof. Frank Levy, Prof. Martin Rein, Prof. Xavier de Souza Briggs
<p>This is a course about how research knowledge and other types of knowledge come to be actionable and influential in the world — or not. The course explores ways to make research knowledge more accessible, credible, and useful in the realm of public policy and practice, a project in which the course faculty collectively bring decades of professional experience, in both academic and non-academic roles.</p> <p>The course addresses the politics of the policymaking process, the power of framing a…
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