Kate Williams

Credibility in Policy Expertise: The Function of Boundaries Between Research and Policy

Kate Williams

Journal article  |  2021  |  POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL

As science becomes an increasingly crucial resource for addressing complex challenges in society, extensive demands are placed upo..

Understanding, measuring, and encouraging public policy research impact

Kate Williams, Jenny M Lewis

Journal article  |  2021  |  Australian Journal of Public Administration

Academics undertaking public policy research are committed to tackling interesting questions driven by curiosity, but they general..

Playing the fields: Theorizing research impact and its assessment

Kate Williams

Journal article  |  2020  |  RESEARCH EVALUATION

How research is assessed affects what types of knowledge are valued, incentivized, and rewarded. An increasingly important element..

Strategic positioning: How policy research actors situate their intellectual labour to gain symbolic resources from multiple fields

Kate Williams

Journal article  |  2020  |  SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW

The process of knowledge production involves negotiating several social worlds, whereby actors engage in positioning and repositio..

An evaluation of the impact component of the Australian Research Council’s 2018 Engagement and Impact Assessment

Katherine Williams, Alexandra Pollitt, Jonathan Grant, Terry Nolan

Report  |  2020

Organisations and Policy-Relevant Knowledge Production

Kate Williams, Marcos Gonzalez Hernando

Journal article  |  2018  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLITICS CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Examining the Link Between Funding and Intellectual Interventions Across Universities and Think Tanks: a Theoretical Framework

Marcos Gonzalez Hernando, Kate Williams

Journal article  |  2018  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLITICS CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Policy-oriented expert knowledge is increasingly applied, collaborative and socially accountable, created in a variety of organisa..

A comparative review of how the policy and procedures to assess research impact evolved in Australia and the UK

Kate Williams, Jonathan Grant

Journal article  |  2018  |  RESEARCH EVALUATION

This article offers a systematic review of the evolution of research impact assessment in Australia and the UK. We consider its in..

Three strategies for attaining legitimacy in policy knowledge: Coherence in identity, process and outcome

Kate Williams

Journal article  |  2018  |  PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

At a time when truth and facts are highly contested, understanding how knowledge gains legitimacy is crucial. Creating valuable po..