About

Koen Bartels is Associate Professor in Public Administration and Policy at the University of Birmingham. He holds a BSc and MPhil in Public Administration from Leiden University (the Netherlands) and a PhD in Politics from the University of Glasgow. He previously worked as Lecturer in Management at Bangor Business School. He is a visiting research fellow at the Heseltine Institute (University of Liverpool). His interdisciplinary research on relationships between citizens and government spans across public policy, urban studies and public administration. As an action researcher, Koen co-produces knowledge and action with stakeholders to generate learning and change. He is passionate about supporting new ways of relating, thinking and acting that transform relational dynamics between communities and urban governance systems. He has been involved in grant-funded research in excess of £550,000 including co-production, knowledge exchange and impact generation in the UK and abroad. Koen has published 'Communicative Capacity: Public Encounters in Participatory Theory and Practice' (2015) and ‘Action Research in Policy Analysis: Critical and Relational Approaches to Sustainability Transitions’ (2018) as well as a range of articles and book chapters on social innovation, public encounters, participatory democracy, collaborative governance, urban governance, action research, and interpretive policy analysis.

Research Interests

Democracy, Governance, Government, Local Government, Policy Analysis, Public Administration, Public Policy, Constructivism, Methods, Qualitative, Policy Change, Policy Implementation, Policy-Making

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Theoretical Perspectives in Policy Analysis
• Local Government and Politics
• Democratic Innovations