Sophie Yates
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Sophie Yates
@sophieyates.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU. Interested in gender, disability, disadvantage, value creation. Also posting for @PMReview.bsky.social
https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=oMaTSg4AAAAJ&hl=en
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Super happy to finally have this paper out w/ Lorana Bartels & Meredith Rossner - we consider drug court benefits beyond recidivism, arguing that a program should not have to demonstrate *substantially* better outcomes than prison to be preferable to incarceration www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘A second chance at life’: broadening views of success in drug courts
A focus on recidivism in drug court evaluation can lead to the presumption that if a program does not significantly reduce recidivism, there is no reason for it to continue. However, this view obsc...
www.tandfonline.com
New bike day 💛
October 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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🎉 We're pleased to announce that on 1 October, @profgeorgebert.bsky.social (City University of Hong Kong) will join Prof Stephen Osborne as Co-Editor in Chief of Public Management Review. Bert has been Deputy Editor since 2024 @tandfresearch.bsky.social files.taylorandfrancis.com/rpxm-announc...
September 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Super happy to finally have this paper out w/ Lorana Bartels & Meredith Rossner - we consider drug court benefits beyond recidivism, arguing that a program should not have to demonstrate *substantially* better outcomes than prison to be preferable to incarceration www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
‘A second chance at life’: broadening views of success in drug courts
A focus on recidivism in drug court evaluation can lead to the presumption that if a program does not significantly reduce recidivism, there is no reason for it to continue. However, this view obsc...
www.tandfonline.com
September 23, 2025 at 1:54 AM
New from Al Stark and me, in Ishani Mukherjee and @howlettm.bsky.social's Handbook of Policy Advice www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
September 22, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"
August 25, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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August 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Janine O'Flynn and I teamed up for a chapter on thesis examination in Colette Einfeld and @helencsullivan.bsky.social's book How to Conduct Interpretive Research. We wrote in the 'character' of Janine, adding insights from the interpretive and qual research methods literature doi.org/10.4337/9781...
August 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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I studied Buddhism intensely for a decade, and nothing immediately clears my mind of all grasping to thoughts or perceptions like someone trying to tell me the rules to a board game.
August 6, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Just had an important acceptance email after 1.75 years of data wrangling, drafting, desk rejects, major revisions and everything in between. I won't say persistence is always worth it but it's a good feeling when persistence finally gets you somewhere! 🥲
July 31, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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I show that while there is only one question on the form that a person might answer differently in-person as opposed to online (and without assistance), it is a very important one, and one which is important in determining the level of support they receive from the state.
July 28, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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The answer I give in the paper is that increasingly it is citizens doing the administrative work that was previously done by the state (and also us as customers that are doing the work for private enterprises as well).
July 28, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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My newest paper in the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law asks a simple question - how is administrative work shifting as we move towards technology-generated interactions, where there is no one around to help us through administrative processes?
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Citizens putting in the work: how administrative work is shifting in the digital welfare state
Current sorting practices in the provision of welfare, used in processes like categorising welfare recipients into cohorts for activation policies, rely on the data inputted into the system. With t...
www.tandfonline.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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Open access: Menno Hoppen, Taco Brandsen & Marlies Honingh investigate the conditions enabling vulnerable citizens’ involvement in co‐production through an ethnographic study of a self‐managed homeless shelter - which challenges traditional provider‐led approaches www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 4, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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From @sueolney.bsky.social & @sophieyates.bsky.social's new article in the Australian Economic Review - why we need to measure the hidden costs of living with disability in Australia www.powertopersuade.org.au/blog/measuri...
July 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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The abstract deadline for the APSA 2025 Conference has been extended to 11 July 2025.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Details: auspsa.org.au/2025-apsa-co...
#APSA2025 #PolSci #CallForPapers
APSA Conference 2025 - Australian Political Studies Association
Call for Abstracts – APSA 2025 Conference Now Open! We invite colleagues from Australia, New Zealand, as well as the Indian Ocean and Asia-Pacific regions, to submit abstracts and panel proposals that...
auspsa.org.au
July 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
New article from @sueolney.bsky.social and me in the Australian Economic Review - why we need to do much better on measuring disability and poverty in Australia onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 2, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Performed with a fantastic choir touring from New Zealand today - they truly left us in awe www.luminatavoices.org
June 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Happy this paper of mine is finally out: “Coproduction as a Causal Process” | Policy Studies Journal | open access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Policy Studies Journal</em> | PSO Public Policy Journal | Wiley Online Library
That many public goods and services are coproduced jointly by government agencies (regular producers) together with clients and citizens (consumer producers) represents a fundamental insight, althoug...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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🚨Two updates from PMR:
First, we have increased our abstract length from 100 to 150! This will help authors highlight their contributions.
Second, authors can now elect to submit an abstract in their native language.
See more detail on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/posts/bert-g...
Some exciting news and updates about Public Management Review! | Bert George
Some exciting news and updates about Public Management Review! First, an update on rankings: 🏆 We have moved from 6th to 5th place in the Public Administration category based on our 2024 Impact Fact...
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June 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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New at APSA 2025: Quiet Sessions
Share your research without presenting! Bring a printed slide deck and have one-on-one chats with interested attendees.

📅 Submit by: 4 July 2025
📍 24–27 Nov | Uni of Melbourne
🔗 Details & submission
📧 melissaellen.dowling@flinders.edu.au
2025 APSA Conference: Call for Abstracts Now Open! - Australian Political Studies Association
Call for Abstracts – APSA 2025 Conference Now Open!We invite colleagues from Australia, New Zealand, as well as the Indian Ocean and Asia-Pacific regions, to submit abstracts and panel proposals that ...
auspsa.org.au
June 20, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Pleased to announce that I'm an economist now (that's what happens when you and @sueolney.bsky.social get something accepted in the Australian Economic Review right?)
June 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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So excited to see this new edited volume by Hank Jenkins-Smith and Chris Weible is now available for free! It’s packed with great work from ACF scholars that really pushes policy research forward. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
The Advocacy Coalition Framework
This open access book provides an updated and integrated analysis of the Advocacy Coalition Framework, more than thirty years after its conception.
link.springer.com
June 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I am in a misophoniac's actual nightmare: transcribing a focus group discussion where people are eating soup 🙉🙉🙉
June 12, 2025 at 4:01 AM