Share
CSaP Working Paper Series
Do policy questions match up with research questions?
The aim of this research is to examine the types of questions that policy professionals ask, and to compare this with the questions that researchers address that have policy relevance. By looking at both sets of questions, it is possible to see if there is a match between the two, and where there isn’t, where better efforts are needed to bring both into alignment.
To read the working paper, please click here
Grey Parrot Model in flight: blueprint for policy-science partnerships
The aim of this research is to develop a blueprint for academic partnerships that policy professionals can use to develop low-cost, high-risk, and high-reward research. The objective is to develop a minimum viable bureaucratic model that is repeatable, scalable and pragmatic.
To read the working paper, please click here
Using Economic Experiments to Understand the Role of Trust in Human/AI Interaction
The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) poses several challenges to legislature and policy professionals. Apart from its technical complexity, behavioural issues arise in association to its application in various domains. The objective of this paper is to argue that experimental economics might offer an important additional perspective for policy makers who seek to better understand the role of trust in human/AI interaction as well as the difference between people’s abstract opinions about AI and their
actual behaviour in varying contexts.
To read the working paper, please click here
From me to we: policy making in the era of collective behaviour
The objective of this report is less to provide very specific and tangible ‘how-to’ guidance but instead to inspire and provoke. Our recommendation is to consider how to take collective design principles and apply them to the difficult work of policy making and execution.
To read the working paper, please click here
Public understanding of digital immortalisation
This project was designed around a recent staging of a new play, A Dead Body in Taos, which explores legal, ethical, moral and psychological themes concerning the digitisation of the self. The public engagement component of this project was to support three activities designed to inform, as well as investigate, the public’s views on topics associated with the digitisation of the self.
To read the working paper, please click here
Policy Fellowship schemes as a vehicle for co-production – insights from Welsh Government Fellowships
Engagement between academic researchers and policy makers is becoming increasingly common. Although approaches to the so-called Science-Policy Interface (SPI) can vary substantially – based on disciplines, different degrees of engagement and focus on research co-production – there are some common challenges and opportunities, which this paper discusses.
To read the working paper, please click here
Beyond rewards: motivating effort in the age of remote working
Since early 2020, many organisations in the UK have seen a shift towards more flexible working practices, including remote and hybrid working. This poses a challenge for organisational leaders in terms of ensuring employees remain motivated when away from the office, in the absence of direct social interaction and managerial oversight. This challenge is exacerbated by mixed effectiveness of the incentives currently used to motivate effort, which highlights a broader problem with our understanding of effort-reward relationship in the workplace. This working paper proposes a new, broader approach to effort, beyond the traditional understanding of this phenomenon as an economic cost, and suggests new strategies to motivate workers regardless of where they are working from.
To read the working paper, please click here
To share or not to share, are there differences offline than online?
This research aims to investigate similarities and differences in sharing behaviour across the two contexts, so we are better able to assess the magnitude of the assumed problem of sharing inaccurate news content online. According to this research, finding differences or similarities in choices made for sharing online vs. offline depended largely on which demographic was the focus of interest.
To read the working paper, please click here