Science for policy: the need for a Commission for Science

Authors

  • Shaun C Hendy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/pq.v12i3.4608

Keywords:

scientific research, Randomised controlled trials (RCT), Integrated Data Infrastructure (IDI), socio-economic data, Parliamentary Commission for Science

Abstract

There is growing interest in the use of scientific research for informing public policy (Gluckman, 2011). Science has shown itself increasingly able to make predictions of catastrophic harms many decades in advance, as well as suggesting ways in which these harms may be avoided. Scientific methodologies are now also being drawn on in many other areas of policy. Randomised controlled trials (RCT) and related statistical and experimental techniques are starting to be used to evaluate the effectiveness of existing policy and to experiment with the development of new policies, for instance (Pearce and Raman, 2014).

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Published

2016-08-01