Prof. Dr. Richard Freeman

Associated Senior Researcher

Webpage: www.richardfreeman.info
e-mail:  richard.freeman@ed.ac.uk

 

Biography

BA (Hons) Modern History and Modern Languages (University of Oxford); Diploma in Social Administration (University of Manchester); PhD (University of Manchester).  Research Fellowships and Visiting Professorships at the European University Institute, the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, the Institut für Höhere Studien and Sciences Po (Paris), as well as Yale, Harvard, Bremen and Vienna Universities.  Former Director of the Graduate School of Social and Political Science and Head of the Department of Social Policy, University of Edinburgh. 

Research focus

  • Policy

  • Governance

  • Knowledge

  • Practice

  • Writing

 Recent Publications

Freeman, R (2021) doing politics, digital text at https://doingpolitics.space

Freeman, R, McHardy, F and Murphy, D (eds) (2017) Working for Equality: policies, politics, people, Glasgow: Argyll Publishing/Centre for Confidence and Well-Being

Voß, J-P and Freeman, R (eds) (2016) Knowing Governance. The epistemic construction of political order, London: Palgrave Macmillan

Freeman, R and Sturdy, S (eds) (2015) Knowledge in Policy: embodied, inscribed, enacted, Bristol: Policy Press

Freeman, R (2023) 'Telling about policy: writing for reflexivity', Global Social Policy https://doi.org/10.1177/14680181231190364

Freeman, R (2019) 'Meeting, talk and text: policy and politics in practice', Policy and Politics 47 (1) 37-56

Freeman, R (2018) 'Europe in translation: governance, integration and the project form', in Berger, T and Esguerra, A (eds) World Politics in Translation, London: Routledge

Freeman, R and Sturdy, S (2017) 'Doing comparison: producing authority in an international organization', in Littoz-Monnet, A (ed) The Politics of Expertise in International Organizations. How international bureaucracies produce and mobilize knowledge, London: Routledge

Freeman, R (2012) 'Reverb: policy making in wave form', Environment and Planning A 44 13-20

Freeman, R and Maybin, J (2011) 'Documents, practices and policy', Evidence and Policy 7 (2) 155-170