Public Policy and Governance Group (PPGG)

Welcome to the webpages of the Public Policy and Governance Group (PPGG) based in the University of Exeter’s Politics Department.

Members of the PPGG have expertise across a wide range of public policy theories, issues and methodologies. We publish in high impact generalist and specialist journals and in practitioner-oriented publications. Many of our members are also members of the Centre for European Governance and collaborate in networks both within and beyond the cluster on a range of research themes.

Key areas of research interest for the PPGG include behavioural policy and experimental methods, deliberative policymaking and citizen governance, the interface between politics and policymaking, environmental policy, European governance, gender and public policy, implementation, health policy, regulatory governance, the organisation of public services, the regulation of the digital economy, global governance and global public policy. We approach these topics from a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Research projects

Teaching

Members of the Group deliver:

We also teach a variety of related PGT and UG modules. We supervise PhD students from around the world on the whole range of public policy and public administration research for more information see Research students.

Members of the Group include:

Member	Interests
Rebecca Baker	Politics and International Relations
Dr Sarah Cooper	Gender and public policy, health policy, criminal justice, law & public policy
Professor Claire Dunlop	Evidence-based policy, impact assessment, policy learning, regulatory governance, theories of the policy process
Professor Isabelle Engeli	Agenda setting and the policy process; gender+/sexual+ equality policy; morality politics and policy; comparative methods
Dr Athanassios Gouglas	Political elites; comparative parliaments; special advisers; global governance
Dr Stephen Greasley	Delegation, government outsourcing, economic governance
Professor Alison Harcourt	Regulatory competition, internet governance, standard developing organisations
Dr Mike Melidis
Professor Oliver James	Behavioural public policy and administration, political participation, evidence in politics and policy
Dr Nick Kirsop-Taylor	Public Policy and Administration
Dr Sandra Kröger	European integration, Brexit, democracy, the politics of the digital, smartphones
Dr Alice Moseley	Behavioural public policy and administration, political and civic engagement, environmental policy, democratic innovations
Dr Lesley Rowan
Professor Duncan Russel	Environmental policy, science-policy interactions, policy appraisal
Dr Maya Vachkova

Affiliated Group Members:

Member	Interests
Professor Matt Lobley	Rural sociology, Geography, farm households
Dr Angela Cassidy	Science-policy interactions; governance and the public sphere; environment, agricultural and health policy

Doctoral Researchers:

Name	Working with	Interests and projects
Ibrahim Bornoma	David Benson, Nick Kirsop-Taylor and Duncan Russel	Energy Transitions, Nigeria, Energy Politics
Mehmet Metin Uzun	Oliver James and Ana Bedushi	Regulatory governance, science and technology policy, AI governance and regulation.
Sophie Stenson	Oliver James and Lewis Elliott	RENEW Project in Sustainable Governance and Environmental Volunteering
Sen Lin	Oliver James and Andrei Zhirnov	Behavioral public administration, coproduction of public service and trust in government