This unit aims to develop skills for undertaking policy research and analysis, and is underpinned by principles from systems thinking and complexity approaches. A mult-idisciplinary approach familiarises students with fundamental frameworks and methodologies that can be applied to research and analysis of health policy by drawing on multiple disciplines including public health, social and political sciences, behavioural sciences, public policy and history. By the end of the unit students will be able to: Define policy and formulate research questions that can be used to analyse policy and policy processes; Understand and apply systems thinking approaches to policy analysis and research; Understand and explain the different methodological approaches and research paradigms that can be applied in policy analysis and research; Apply a critical analysis to a case study of policy success or failure; Identify appropriate study designs, research methodologies, data collection methods and analysis frameworks for specific policy research questions; Design a systems thinking-informed analysis of a current policy issue.
Unit details and rules
Academic unit | Public Health |
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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None |
Corequisites
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None |
Prohibitions
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None |
Assumed knowledge
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None |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | No |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Samantha Rowbotham, samantha.rowbotham@sydney.edu.au |
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Lecturer(s) | Samantha Rowbotham, samantha.rowbotham@sydney.edu.au |
Tutor(s) | Gai Moore, gabriel.moore@sydney.edu.au |
Leah Marks, leah.marks@sydney.edu.au |