About

Koen Bartels is Senior Lecturer in Public Management at INLOGOV, University of Birmingham. He holds a BSc (2006) and MPhil (2008) in Public Administration (Leiden University) and PhD (2012) in Politics (University of Glasgow). His research focuses on encounters between front-line workers and communities. He has conducted grant-funded research projects involving co-production, knowledge exchange and impact generation in the UK and abroad. His research has been published in leading international journals, including Urban Studies, Environment & Planning C, Public Administration, Public Administration Review, and International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. He also published 'Communicative Capacity: Public Encounters in Participatory Theory and Practice' (The Policy Press, 2015) and ‘Action Research in Policy Analysis: Critical and Relational Approaches to Sustainability Transitions’ (Routledge, 2018).

Research Interests

Democracy, Governance, Local Government, Policy Analysis, Public Administration, Public Policy, 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