Mr Francisco Palma Carvajal
BA, BA, MSc, MSc, PhD
Expertise
Social Policy lecturer studying the politics of policymaking, citizen participation, and policymaking changes under neoliberal governance. Extensive experience in education policy and civil society participation in policy.
Current positions
Senior Lecturer
School for Policy Studies
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Biography
I came to the School of Policy Studies to do my PhD in 2015, which was awarded in 2019, and since then I have been working as a lecturer in different undergraduate and postgraduate units. I have had the privilege of acting as a supervisor for a considerable number of undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as providing personal tutoring support to over 90 students. I have led important programmes at the School, such as the Quantitative Research Methods (QRM), the Study Abroad and most recently the UG Social Policy (SP) Programmes.
I have recently been awarded a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Chilean Research Council. In this research, I explore how public policy as a discipline is understood by leading intellectuals and practitioners in Chile, paying particular attention to the ways in which dominant ideas serve to create and re-create the boundaries of the field.
Research interests
I am a Chilean Sociologist and Journalist. I have worked as a researcher at the Catholic University of Chile, in environmental NGOs as well as in the Chilean Ministry of Education. My research focuses on the politics of policymaking, citizen participation in policy processes and the changes in policymaking under neoliberal governance.
Publications
Selected publications
25/10/2022From above or from below?
Journal of Educational Administration and History
Advocacy NGOs and the Neoliberal Pacification of the Demands of the Street
Advocacy NGOs and the Neoliberal Pacification of the Demands of the Street
Advocacy NGOs and the neoliberal manufacture of the street voice
Journal of Education Policy
Advocacy NGOs in Chilean education policy-making: spaces of resistance or agencies fostering neoliberalism?
Critical Policy Discourse Analysis
Recent publications
25/10/2022From above or from below?
Journal of Educational Administration and History
Advocacy NGOs and the neoliberal manufacture of the street voice
Journal of Education Policy
Advocacy NGOs and the Neoliberal Pacification of the Demands of the Street
Advocacy NGOs and the Neoliberal Pacification of the Demands of the Street
Advocacy NGOs in Chilean education policy-making: spaces of resistance or agencies fostering neoliberalism?
Critical Policy Discourse Analysis
Oportunidades y desafíos del teatro aplicado en el aprendizaje de la convivencia escolar: reconociendo la experiencia de los estudiantes
Persona Y Sociedad
Thesis
Teaching
I have 15 years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate students in the UK and Chile.
I am the unit convenor for the units 'Collective Action and Policy Change' and 'Education Policy in International Perspective', at the Undergraduate in Social Policy. I am also a lecturer in the 'Researching Public Policy' unit on the Masters in Public Policy.
In addition, I have been working as a teaching assistant on the units 'Key concepts, theories and ideologies in Social Policy', 'Understanding Public Policy', 'Social Research Methods', 'Representations of Crime and Harm' and the unit 'Informing and Evaluating Policy' of the MSc in Public Policy.
My teaching practice is driven by values of respect, participation, and inclusion. In 2024 I was shortlisted as one of the three finalists for the “Inspiring and Innovative Teaching Award” in the Bristol Teaching Awards.