There has been a flare-up in interest in science policy and a
key factor in this is the increased interest in analysing the role
that research can play in informing policy making.
A pioneering venture in this field was Government and Research:
The Rothschild Experiment in a Government Department (1983)
Heinemann. No other work had penetrated the deepest recesses of
government to observe at first hand the attempts of a major
department to determine its research agenda through collaboration
with leading scientists in a wide range of fields, to observe how
research was commissioned, and then evaluated by scientific teams,
and how it began to enter the policy blood streams of the
departments.
This revised and augmented version updates the original text for
current policy concerns and takes account of changes in science
policy studies, whilst preserving its essential themes. It contains
a succinct account of where matters now stand as well as an
extended analysis of the themes that continue to dominate research
and science policy.
"Finally, the rest of the world has caught up with Kogan and
Henkel. Twenty-five years ago their ground-breaking study of the
UK's Department of Health led them to conclude that sustained
interaction between scientists and bureaucrats was the key to
unleashing the value of science for the policy process. I found the
first edition of this book the single most compelling and
comprehensive treatment of this complex interaction. They may have
felt like voices in the wilderness then; today, however, they can
take their rightful place as pre-cursors and leaders of what has
become a mass-movement for 'evidence-based policy'. This re-issued
and significantly updated edition, includes many recent initiatives
that they and colleague Steve Hanney might rightfully claim as
their offspring. The timeliness of the current edition only serves
to highlight just how far ahead of their time they really
were."
Dr Jonathan Lomas, Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian
Health Services Research Foundation.
Bryony Soper:
"This thoughtful and thoroughly researched book was an important
theoretical and practical guide for those establishing the NHS
R&D Programme in the early 1990s. Some of the details of the
multi-faceted relationships between science and government have
necessarily changed over the years, but the complexities described
in this book are still all too evident, and it remains as relevant
today as it was originally."
Bryony Soper, former Assistant Secretary in the R&D Division
of the Department of Health.
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