Science, Technology and Information Policy

Just Transition to Electric Vehicles in Disadvantaged Communities: Integrating Transportation, Energy, Environmental, and Climate Justice

Energy Research & Social Science

2025

Jeffrey M. Bielicki has co-authored a paper on capabilities and barriers to transitioning to electric vehicles. Based on over 70 interviews with residents of historically marginalized communities in Columbus, this research develops and applies a novel framework for how bottom-up capabilities to be able to participate in electrified mobility interact with top-down structural challenges.

Marginalized and overlooked? Minoritized groups and the adoption of new scientific ideas

Journal of Labor Economics

2025

Journal of Public Affairs Education

2024

Megan LePere-Schloop and her colleague analyze nearly a million journal citations to compare how public administration, public policy, and nonprofit studies integrate interdisciplinary knowledge, finding distinct patterns shaped by each field’s origins and practices.

Collections for the Public Good: A Case Study from Ohio

Diversity

2025

Daniel Kelley offer some answers as to why natural history collections, and specifically geological collections, are important and relevant to society today and to the future of humankind. Authors offer perspective on the ways that geological collections will continue to benefit society at large by providing some illustrative historical examples.

Public Administration Review

2025

Esra Gules-Guctas and colleagues demonstrate how algorithmic decision-making systems used in public benefits determinations can produce outcomes that fail to comply with legal requirements when statutory rules are improperly implemented in code, often due to flawed data, poor design choices, or inherent system limitations.

Implementation Science Communications

2024

Amanda Girth, Rebecca Smith and colleagues analyze the implementation of Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START), finding that collaboration strategies like leadership support, staff co-location, and third-party resource support influence program fidelity depending on local context.

Implementation Science

2024

Amanda Girth and colleagues examine the implementation of Ohio Sobriety Treatment and Reducing Trauma (START), identifying seven cross-system collaboration strategies that strengthen staffing, service access, and case planning for families facing child maltreatment and parental substance use disorders.

The potential of urban food governance to transform lives, cities, and the planet

Journal of Urban Food Systems Governance

2024

Jill K. Clark, along with her colleagues, proposes a critical framework for urban food governance, emphasizing five interconnected principles, time, place, relationships, diversity and power, to guide just and sustainable outcomes in urban food systems.

China shows science is not dependent on liberal democracy

LSE Impact Blog

2024

The literature on research policy often assumes a dynamic interplay between democratic nations, science and innovation. Caroline S. Wagner suggests that at least in the case of China, science depends more on state capacities, a situation which may in turn have an impact on the current composition of global science.

Ashley Orr