Biography

Hanhua Liu is a Research Associate at IPEG. Her main focus at IPEG has been on innovative methodologies in the social sciences and quantitative data analysis. The recently completed design experiment project on which she was a research associate was the first application of the design experiment methodology in the UK, which was a drugs policy intervention on an estate in the north of England.

Her main interest is in whether and what interventions can be undertaken to change behaviour, especially agents' behaviour in situations of collective belief formation, action and decision-making.

Hanhua was awarded her first degree in Business Administration by the University of Hertfordshire in 2000. She obtained a PhD in social policy at the University of York in 2005. Her thesis is titled ' Investigating the possibility of changing doctors' prescribing in China: what does an intervention study tell us?'.

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Recent Papers

• Askew R., John P. and Liu H. 'Experimenting for innovation: testing out design experiments with a drugs policy intervention in Wigan.' Presentation to the Simon Academy, University of Manchester, 18-24 June 2007
  
  
• John P., Larsen, H. and Liu H. 'Comparing Executive-led Policy Agendas in the USA and UK' . Paper presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago
  
  
• John, P. and Liu, H. 'The policy agenda in the United Kingdom : a longitudinal analysis of Queen's speeches, 1990 - 2004'. Paper presented at the 2006 European Consortium for Political Research Joint Sessions, Nicosia
• John.P., Fieldhouse, E. and Lui, H. 'Explaining civic behaviour: models and evidence'. Paper presented at the 58th Annual Conference of the Political Studies Association, Swansea University, 1-3 April 2008, for the panel The rediscovery of the civic: investigation led through experiments.
• Askew, R., John, P. and Liu, H. 'Experimenting for innovation: testing out design experiments with a drugs policy intervention in Wigan'. Presentation to the Simon Academy, University of Manchester, 18-24 June 2007.
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