IPEG is a research centre committed to producing theoretically informed and empirically rigorous work. In addition, IPEG will ensure that its research agenda is relevant to the needs of practitioners, providing the vital link between the acquisition of knowledge and its transfer.
Our future research plans are guided by a sense that the new reform challenges rest on the renewal of civic, social and economic infrastructures as much as public sector reform and institutional and governmental change. Our research will attempt to understand 'what lies beneath' in the infrastructure and fabric of our society and economy that inhibits and limits our capacity for reform and yet in some instances and elements may provide the dynamic for positive change.
We provide new platforms of knowledge and understanding of these infrastructures. We will also address what appropriate and smart policy interventions into these infrastructures might consist of using experimental and other appropriate methodologies. The challenge for the future is to discover forms of governance and policy practice that will make our economy, civil society and democracy function more effectively.