The Conference
Interpretive policy analysis engenders and embraces research which extends across the social sciences and is applied to a vast range of policy topics. The common intrest of interpretive approaches to policy analysis is the recognition of the importance of discourse, meaning making, interpretation and the performance of social practices both in devising and in enacting policy.
Keynote 1: Isabelle Fairclough (University of Central Lancashire) and Norman Fairclough (Emeritus Professor, Lancaster University) 'Policy debate and decision-making over shale gas in the UK'
Keynote 2: Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster University) 'Social practice theory and energy consumption'
CFP
The organizers of the 11th international conference on Interpretive Policy Analysis invite proposals for papers. Authors should submit the details of their paper, including an abstract of no more than 350 words, to the conference website at www.hull.ac.uk/ipa2016 .
Papers should be submitted to one of the named panels (listed here: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/fass/facultyevents/ipa2016.aspx ) or to the open section. Panel conveyors will review and select papers for their panel.
Places at the conference are limited and preference will be given to papers accepted to named panels over those submitted to the 'open panel'. For full details see: www.hull.ac.uk/ipa2016 .