Writing Policy Briefs - CPSY 715 - Life Span Development - Research and Course Guides at University of St. Thomas

Sage Research Methods Online

Tons of information about research, both gathering research and disseminating it. Here are some books that speak to disseminating research for policy purposes.

The SAGE Handbook of Research Management by Robert Dingwall (Editor); Mary Byrne McDonnell
Publication Date: 2015-10-29
Sections on:
Planning for Impact and Delivering Impact.

Guides to Writing Policy Briefs

Public Health Policy by Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharya
Publication Date: 2013
Part 3, Chapter 19: The Research Policy Brief: A Primer
The National Origins of Policy Ideas by John L. Campbell; Ove K. Pedersen
Publication Date: 2014-04-27
The National Origins of Policy Ideas provides the first comparative analysis of how "knowledge regimes"--communities of policy research organizations like think tanks, political party foundations, ad hoc commissions, and state research offices, and the institutions that govern them--generate ideas and communicate them to policymakers.