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{"title":"The uses of (mis)information in education policy: introduction to the special issue.","authors":"Joel R Malin, Christopher Lubienski","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000112","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This special issue of Evidence & Policy focuses on growing concerns around misinformation, disinformation and research misuse in education policy. This introduction to the issue shows how education policy is a unique and particularly vulnerable information ecosystem because it is deeply contested, highly politicized, often structurally decentralized and susceptible to intermediaries who frame problems, package evidence and influence policy discourse. Drawing on scholarship across multiple fields - including misinformation studies, policy studies and education research - our introduction highlights how misinformation in education is not only a question of false claims, but also of strategic framing and the selective use of 'evidence' in service of ideological agendas. The introduction summarizes the six articles in the issue, which examine topics including civics teachers' information use, anti-LGBTQIA+ advocacy campaigns, countermeasures to misinformation, authoritarian discourse in Hungary, research misuse in knowledge brokering, and shifting claims about evidence-based education in Australia. Several themes emerge within and across these articles: the centrality of systemic and contextual factors, the importance of intermediaries, the role of language and norms, and the imperative for interdisciplinary, comparative and critically informed approaches to this increasingly critical issue. We conclude by discussing how researchers and practitioners can combine efforts around media literacy, institutional reform, accountability for knowledge brokers, with a more rigorous interrogation of what counts as evidence in education policy.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149148724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Institutionalizing mathematical modelling for public health decision-making: moving from ad hoc collaboration to a sustainable system in Thailand.","authors":"Warittakorn Kategeaw, Thipsukhon Sathapanasiri, Phayom Sookaneknun Olson, Damon Toth, Matthew H Samore, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000111","DOIUrl":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000111","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149118302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making space for research: lessons from a research-practice partnership in adult social care.","authors":"Jennifer Lynch, Lida Efstathopoulou, Krystal Warmoth, John Woolham, Eneida Mioshi, Marina Buswell, Leisha O'Brien, Kathryn Almack","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000110","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Research-practice partnerships (RPPs) are increasingly recognised for their potential to build research capacity in adult social care (ASC), yet the mechanisms enabling or constraining their impact remain under-explored. This article reports on the SCRiPT study, a National Institute for Health and Care Research-funded RPP in England that utilised a Communities of Practice (CoP) approach.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To operationalise an RPP by establishing Research in Practice Teams (RiPTs) - comprising social care professionals, lived experience contributors and academics - and to evaluate the mobilisation of research learning and identify transferable lessons for embedding collaborative RPPs.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using a convergent multi-method design across four RiPTs, the intervention included bespoke training and support for small-scale projects. Data from interviews, focus groups, observations and questionnaires were analysed using Normalisation Process Theory and informed by CoP principles.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>RiPTs achieved strong organisational buy-in through senior leadership support and collaborative priority-setting. However, sustained engagement was hindered by systemic infrastructure gaps, operational pressures and complex governance. While lived experience contributions enhanced research relevance, RiPTs functioned more as traditional research teams than CoPs, highlighting tensions between collaborative ideals and organisational realities.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>RPPs can catalyse research engagement in ASC, but sustainability requires structural investment, protected time and context-relevant academic support. SCRiPT highlights that embedding RPPs in complex service environments depends on equitable collaboration, adaptability and multi-level organisational commitment.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149065961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How can critical actors be incentivised to take a systems approach to pursue preventative public health?","authors":"Andrew Barnfield, Geoff Bates, Sarah Ayres, Nick Pearce, Alistair Hunt, Eleanor Eaton","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000107","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>In this article we explore how critical actors can be incentivised to take a systems approach to pursue preventative public health. More specifically, we focus on the link between urban environments and their effect on non-communicable diseases (NCDs), such as obesity, cancers, cardiovascular and respiratory disease. Improving urban environments as a route to preventative public health is well known but it is complicated and requires multi-actor decision-making. For example, reducing cardiovascular disease through better urban design will require global investment companies, central government, local planners, public health teams, private house builders and local residents to find ways to develop joint solutions.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We draw on 167 qualitative interviews with key actors from across the urban development system in England to explore how an innovative economic valuation tool - the Health Appraisal for Urban Systems (HAUS) tool - could support multi-actor decision-making.</p><p><strong>Analytic plan: </strong>We analyse the data using a multi-stage, transdisciplinary thematic analysis. Coding involved a collaborative deductive and inductive process.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings reveal that actors from state, market and civil society could see the value of this tool, which evidences the link between different features of the urban environment, health outcomes and their economic valuation. Indeed, actors confirmed that the tool offered something new to incentivise joint decision-making and there was an appetite for its use.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We conclude by arguing that the HAUS tool offers an important source of evidence to encourage cross-system collaboration for promoting preventative public health.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148946118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Capturing the classroom: disinformation as discursive reconstruction of education in Orbán's Hungary.","authors":"Zea Szebeni","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000108","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Debates on educational disinformation typically target false content in curricula or online. This study reconceptualizes the phenomenon as the discursive reconstruction of education's purpose, the strategic redefinition of its values and social functions that becomes naturalized as common sense. Existing scholarship documents Hungary's institutional capture but neglects the discursive mechanisms transforming political rhetoric into educational meaning. The study asks how Viktor Orbán's speeches construct education's societal role and how these representations become embedded in curricular content.</p><p><strong>Methods/data: </strong>The primary corpus comprises Orbán's official speeches (2022-2025) from the Hungarian government website; an education-keyword search yielded 110 speeches, from which 236 relevant segments were retained. Purposively sampled grade 5-12 textbooks (civics, history, literature) and selected 2015-2021 speeches provide illustrative, intertextual triangulation.</p><p><strong>Analytic plan: </strong>The study applies Fairclough's three-dimensional Critical Discourse Analysis, examining discourse as text, discursive practice and social practice. Through iterative open and focused coding of speech segments, three discursive representations were derived inductively and analysed across all three dimensions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Orbán constructs education through three interlocking representations: national preservation (schools as guardians of Christian-national identity), economic engine (vocational training as sovereignty), and ideological resistance (schools as fortresses against liberal 'contamination'). Together they achieve hegemonic closure, rendering pluralism unthinkable; textbook content materializes this rhetoric as pedagogical fact.</p><p><strong>Conclusion/implications: </strong>Educational disinformation operates through meaning reconstruction, 'epistemic engineering', not only factual falsehood, making fact-checking insufficient in itself. Monitoring democratic backsliding should track discursive shifts in institutions' self-described purposes, since classroom meanings shape future citizens' political imaginations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148851887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How we embraced methodological and ethical challenges in our community-academic partnered research about equity in organizational leadership.","authors":"Marlene Janzen Le Ber, Karen Fryday-Field, Logan van Roessel, Jesse Cram, Jaismeen Dhaliwal, Ali El-Ayoubi, Anita Kothari, Roula Kteily-Hawa, Lissette Ochoa, Shahin Pardhan, Massah Tarawalley","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148801351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strengthening international evidence-informed policy making: lessons from the Global South.","authors":"Jessica Espey, Zhengli Huang, Giada Casarin, Aisha Jore Ali, Anton Cartwright, Ivor Chipkin, Achan Ramlat, Frejus Thoto","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000105","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Evidence-informed policy making (EIP) has generated substantial scholarship, but its contribution to the practicalities of policy making in international organisations is limited by the focus on a discreet and generally local level of governance. Furthermore, there is an acute bias in existing EIP literature, with the majority of studies derived from Global North countries.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>To partially redress this geographic imbalance, the study produces four national case studies drawn from Sub-Saharan Africa, each reflecting on current, live policy processes within those national contexts, which are comparatively summarised within this article.</p><p><strong>Analytic plan: </strong>Case studies are examined through an analytical framework based on Langer et al (2020) to identify replicable practices that may inform decision-making across multiple scales of governance, operating under the assumption that policy processes are transboundary and that lessons from national contexts can be translated to the international level.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings emphasise integrating diverse stakeholders through inclusive approaches that enable meaningful participation of underrepresented knowledge. The centrality of political economy in shaping evidence use is highlighted, the need for structured evidence-demand and communication practices, and the value of clear guidelines around evidence categories to strengthen how diverse evidence types are interpreted across governance levels.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This article extends EIP's analytical reach beyond local and Global North contexts, offering a framework applicable to international policy-making institutions. Findings carry implications for designing inclusive and structured EIP mechanisms at national and international levels, and point to the need for future research that continues to diversify the geographic and institutional scope of EIP scholarship.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148801373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing and implementing a large-scale summit to improve health services delivery for rural, remote and Indigenous populations.","authors":"Nelly D Oelke, Robert Woollard, Kim Williams, David Snadden, Megan Hunt, Deanne Taylor, Scott Graham, Paul Kendal, Ray Markham","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000109","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Inequities persist in health services delivery for rural, remote and Indigenous populations internationally. These populations require attention to improve health outcomes for individuals, communities, providers and the health system. Strong collaboration and trusting relationships in rural and Indigenous communities in British Columbia (BC), Canada enabled rapid health services delivery changes in rural BC in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In June 2020, the Rural Coordination Centre of BC and First Nations Health Authority co-hosted the BC Rural and First Nations Health and Wellness Summit to collaborate with community and organizational partners to identify needs and co-create actions required to address priorities in rural health services delivery. The aim of this article is to provide information on the innovative practices of the 2020 Summit as a knowledge-to-action approach for health services delivery redesign and to share these learnings with other organizations planning large events featuring dialogue among participants distributed throughout a large area. Key learnings from the Summit include: (1) the importance of building on pre-existing and current relationships to facilitate Summit discussions in a virtual environment; (2) detailed planning and technological expertise are needed to implement large events; and (3) a carefully co-created agenda are necessary to generate buy-in and participation from partner organizations.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148801416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evidence-based policy making in Japan (2016-23): institutional setting, administrative interpretation and barriers to implementation.","authors":"Zhaoyuan Liu","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>This article examines how evidence-based policy making (EBPM) has been institutionally situated and interpreted within Japan's central administrative system, and what this reveals about barriers to its implementation.</p><p><strong>Methods/data: </strong>The study uses document analysis of Policy Evaluation Expert Committee minutes from 17 central ministries and agencies from 2016 to 2023. The dataset comprises 131 meeting minutes and 374 EBPM-related statements. The study first examines the institutional setting in which EBPM has been introduced, then analyses how EBPM is interpreted, and finally identifies barriers.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Japanese EBPM is operationalised through existing policy evaluation and administrative project review arrangements. It is interpreted mainly as a reform-oriented practice aimed at improving policy rationality, reviewability and internal coordination, while policy effectiveness validation remains limited. The main barriers are primarily institutional, especially conceptual ambiguity and fragmented institutional alignment.</p><p><strong>Conclusion/implications: </strong>The study provides a systematic and empirically grounded account of how EBPM is interpreted and operationalised within Japan's central ministries. It shows that EBPM is a context-shaped practice, whose operation is shaped by administrative systems, institutional settings and evidence demand. These findings highlight the need to analyse EBPM in relation to the institutional environment in which it is embedded.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-24"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148801389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using community values and evidence to respond to homelessness together: a case for methodological flexibility.","authors":"Lilian Dart, Naomi Nichols, Mary Anne Martin","doi":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000102","DOIUrl":"10.1332/17442648Y2026D000000102","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Canada's homelessness crisis has deepened due to policy failures, structural inequities and systemic neglect. In Ontario, mid-sized cities face growing pressures with housing and homelessness responsibilities downloaded to municipalities and under-resourced community organizations. These intersecting challenges underscore the need for coordinated, community-driven and evidence-informed responses that transcend traditional policy and research silos.</p><p><strong>Aims and objectives: </strong>This article examines collaborative efforts to address homelessness within Peterborough, Ontario, and distils a local research-to-action process to inform evidence-led problem-solving in other contexts. It explores how researchers can balance academic and activist frameworks with community values to foster meaningful social change.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Aligned with institutional ethnography, the process integrated community-based participatory research, knowledge mobilization and community organizing. Two coordinated research projects culminated in a half-day community forum and a two-day community symposium, co-designed with local people with lived experience, Indigenous organizations, service providers and municipal staff. Structured facilitation supported collective problem identification, priority setting and coordinated planning.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>The forum mobilized local evidence, allowing participants to identify key policy and practice priorities. The symposium generated community actions and future directions, including a living resource hub, a coordinated advocacy committee and enhanced access to justice supports. Participants reported strengthened collaboration, mutual accountability and solidarity across sectors.</p><p><strong>Discussion and conclusion: </strong>Although the process did not directly reduce homelessness, it built local agency and collective capacity for policy advocacy and resource coordination. Grounded in local evidence and shared values, it offers an adaptable model for communities addressing complex social challenges.</p>","PeriodicalId":51652,"journal":{"name":"Evidence & Policy","volume":" ","pages":"1-29"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148649775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}