Knowledge brokers

MacKillop, Eleanor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3345-7499, Downe, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0772-3183, Martin, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1883-5837 and Durrant, Hannah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0143-8931 2025. Knowledge brokers. Howlett, Michael and Mukherjee, Ishani, eds. Handbook of Policy Advice, Political Science and Public Policy 2025, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, pp. 438-451. (10.4337/9781035318087.00047)

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Abstract

Evidence-based policy-making (EBPM), and its more realistic descendant, evidence-informed policy-making (EIPM), have increasingly been advocated by both policy-makers and researchers as an important way to achieve better policies. Among a myriad of other similar concepts, knowledge brokering (KB) has been the subject of many studies and policy discussions on how to achieve EIPM. Despite the interest in KB in both worlds, how it is defined, what it looks like in practice, and the activities it includes remain unclear. To answer these questions, we critically review the recent literature, building on our 2020 systematic review (MacKillop et al., 2020). We focus on three aspects of the literature: its scale and content, notably the variety of concepts existing around KB, how KB is defined, and the activities that it involves in policy-making contexts.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Business (Including Economics)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General)
Publisher:	Edward Elgar
ISBN:	9781035318070
Last Modified:	23 Sep 2025 11:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/181254

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