Session Information
23 SES 10 B, Researching the Powerful: Seeking Knowledge about Policy
Symposium
Contribution
This paper looks at issues arising from collecting data from policy makers, with attention to the processes of negotiation involved, including negotiation of the ‘role’ being enacted by the informant (ie both source and expert).Critical incidents in the negotiation of access will be reviewed, before turning to consideration of the extent to which, in interviews with policy makers, there is always an ongoing negotiation of the roles and competences between the interviewee and the interviewer, that also has to be taken into account through the analysis of the interview. This negotiation may be very complex indeed if the informant wishes to maintain a positioning as a researcher as well as a policy-maker, something that is increasingly common as evidence-informed policy-making brings research and policy into closer relationship
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