The Duke Center for International Development and the Sanford School of Public Policy partnered with the Society of Policy Scientists to host the 2022 Policy Scientists Annual Institute on November 17-19. The conference took place on Duke’s campus in Durham, NC.
The Duke Center for International Development and the Sanford School of Public Policy partnered with the Society of Policy Scientists to host the 2022 Policy Scientists Annual Institute on November 17-19.
Conference Overview
The conference aims to advance knowledge and practice in the policy sciences in the service of human dignity for all. Conference participants presented research and reports on their findings across a diverse array of policy areas. Attendees also participated in a training on the nuances of the policy sciences approach and given the opportunity to reach out to others interested in the policy sciences as a prominent approach to policy analysis and action.
Topics for this year’s Annual Institute included policy challenges related to global food insecurity, minoritized and indigenous communities, climate finance, and environmental justice.
2022 Annual Institute Presentation Topics
Take a moment to explore some of the exciting presentations from researchers and professors on the latest policy findings. Select presenters have made their presentations and/or papers available for public consumption (click to view the presentations in the table below).
- William “Bill” Ascher – Indignity and Adat: Indigenous Rights in Southeast Asia
- Edmund Malesky – Willing to Learn: How Economic Uncertainty Can Enhance Trade Literacy among Internal Migrants: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Vietnam
- Maureen Moriarty-Lempke – Exploring Intersections of Trafficking in Persons Vulnerability and Environmental Degradation in Forestry and Adjacent Sectors
- Yara Ismael – Environmental Degradation of Kurdish Areas
- Gabriela Nagle Alverio – Race and U.S. Climate Migration: Trapped Populations and FEMA Linkages
- Kimberly Zamora Delgado – The Past and Future of Migration, Poverty, and Small-Scale Agriculture in MexicoElizabeth Losos – Greening the Belt and Road through Standards for Sustainable Infrastructure
Conference Steering Commitee
The 2022 Policy Scientists Annual Institute was designed and led by a steering committee comprised of researchers and faculty from different institutions. Meet this year’s steering committee members.
Natalia Mirovitskaya
Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, DCID
Edmund Malesky
Professor of Political Science & Director, DCID
William "Bill" Ascher
Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics, Claremont McKenna College
Funding Acknowledgement
The 2022 Annual Institute Migration is supported through the generosity of Sanford School of Public Policy’s Office of the Dean.
