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Senior Lecturer at @EdinburghUni and Research Fellow at @i_parl. This account is not active - follow me on Bluesky.

Joined June 2009
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First: the idea of ‘lived experience’ has become much more important than before. It was rarely mentioned during my PhD in the 2010 parliament (link: manchesteruniversitypress.co…). These days, I’m surprised if it doesn’t come up. (3/8)
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Second: diversity of witnesses is an important, but also contested, issue. For many, this is not just about political diversity, but the representativeness of the evidence base. (4/8)
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🔎 I focus on select committees, which are the principal mechanisms for accountability, and information-gathering tools, in the House of Commons. I ask, quite simply: what does 'evidence' mean to MPs and officials? (3/8)
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📗 The starting point for answering this question comes from Erskine May, which defines evidence in a procedural and legalistic way. MPs and officials view evidence through this framework (4/8)
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And this is the main finding: we identify key traits for an engaged parliament and an engaged university, based on extensive analysis of barriers and facilitators discussed in our report /13
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Some of the factors that affect the take-up of research, again based on academic literature and our interviews, are shown in this table from the report /14
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