Discussant: Anna Pravdica

Mathilde Alain, 'Writing, translating, rearranging: the traveller’s self and Italian scholars in Álvares’ account of Ethiopia (c.1540)'

IPPO Event: Translating Lived Experience into Policy

• Thursday 22 February
• 15:30-16:30
• Online
• Free
• Register on Eventbrite at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/translating-lived-experience-to-policy-tickets-801256468667Link opens in a new window

Researchers are increasingly looking to bring ‘lived experience’ - knowledge from people with first-hand experience of a social issue or issues - into their analysis of how policy can solve socio-economic problems.

There is growing acknowledgment of the unique perspectives lived experience can provide, and the importance of including lived experience evidence to build trust between policymakers and the groups their decisions will affect. Yet doing lived experience research meaningfully requires significant resource, and translating experiences into policy isn't always straightforward. As part of our Innovations in Evidence series, this discussion will focus specifically on the process of translating qualitative research and lived experience evidence into policymaking, and the process of influencing decision-makers with this kind of evidence.

How much do we know and understand about using lived experience as evidence to influence policy? What are the benefits and challenges of a ‘lived experience’ approach? And how exactly do you translate the stories of those with lived experiences into concrete recommendations for policy?

This event will be chaired by Urte Macikene, Policy Evidence Lead at the International Public Policy Observatory, with contributions from Dr Debbie Foster, Professor of Employment Relations and Diversity at Cardiff University, Emily Morrison, Director of Sustainability and JUST Transition and Interim Director for the Institute for Community Studies and Rebecca Curtayne, External Affairs Manager at Healthwatch England.

Tom Crewe

who will be speaking with Dr Ross Forman about

The New Life

Winner the 2023 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction and the 2023 Southbank Sky Arts Award for Literature

The New Life

After a lifetime spent navigating his desires, John Addington, married to Catherine, has met Frank, a working-class printer.

Meanwhile Henry Ellis's wife Edith has fallen in love with Angelica - and Angelica wants Edith all to herself.

When in 1894 John and Henry decide to write a revolutionary book together, intended to challenge convention and the law, they are both caught in relationships stalked by guilt and shame. Yet they share a vision of a better world, one that will expand possibilities for men and women everywhere.

Their daring book threatens to throw John and Henry, and all those around them, into danger. How far should they go to win personal freedoms? And how high a price are they willing to pay for a new way of living?

‘Filled with nuance and tenderness... charting the lives of men and women who inspired not only political progress but an entire new way of living and loving’ Colm Tóibín

Co-sponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies and the Writing Programme