School of Law & Govt, Office of Civic Engagement at DCU to hold to Martin McEvoy Annual Conference 2020 Politics, People and Public Policy - Case Studies in Policy Engagement
The School of Law and Government and the Office of Civic Engagement at Dublin City University are delighted to invite you to the Martin McEvoy Annual Conference 2020 Politics, People and Public Policy - Case Studies in Policy Engagement.
The conference will examine current approaches to, and potential trajectories of, public engagement in the public policy cycle. The contributors include elected representatives, academics and public policy practitioners working in the broad range of areas, including climate action, local development, inter-county and cross-border economic development, the built environment and infrastructure, water, agriculture and public health.
Since 2002, a key aim of the Martin McEvoy Conferences has been to foster dialogue broadly and offer a platform to citizens, communities, public representatives, public and civil servants, civil society organisations, research students and academics to collaboratively examine public policy challenges. Please RSVP by Tuesday 1st December 2020 to Deiric O'Broin at deiric.obroin@dcu.ie
Following is the conference itinerary:
Date: Friday, 4 December 2020
Time: 9.30 am - 1.45 pm
Location: Zoom
Conference Outline
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9.00am - 9.30am |
Registration |
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9.30am – 9.35am |
Welcome |
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9.35am – 10.50am |
Session I Rurality as a context for innovative policy responses to social challenges: The role of rural social enterprises - Lucas Olmedo, Mara van Twuijver and Mary O’Shaughnessy (UCC) Local development companies and their evolving relationship with policy formulation processes - Joe Saunders (ILDN) Strategic Policy Committees: Talking shops or active participants in local policy development? - Fintan Phelan (Carlow County Council/DCU) |
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10.50am – 11.00am |
Coffee |
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11.00am – 12.15pm |
Session II Stakeholder engagement through experimental governance: Learning from developments in water governance and the dairy sector - Larry O’Connell (NESC) and Rory O’Donnell (UCD) The Dublin-Belfast Economic Corridor: An idea whose time has come (again)? - Eoin Magennis (UU), Neale Blair (UU), Jordana Corrigan (TU Dublin) and Deiric Ó Broin (DCU) Structured, formal engagement of stakeholders in public policy: The case of An Fóram Uisce (The Water Forum) - Richard Boyle, Joanna O’Riordan, Laura Shannon and Fergal O’Leary (IPA) |
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12.15pm – 12.25pm |
Coffee |
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12.25pm – 1.40pm |
Session III Mainstreaming climate adaptation into national and local level policy making - Paul Lawlor (TU Dublin) Public participation in times of crisis. A case study of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown residents associations’ response to COVID-19 - Simone Sav and Colette Downing (DLR PPN) Collaboratively planning climate action: What would it mean for Dublin? - Ali Grehan (Dublin City Council/DCU) |