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I've sort of come from a bit of a background
in the public service and I think there's,
in foreign policy, there's a bit of a disconnect
between the foreign policy for public service
and what happens in academia.
And I think that's what sort of drove my interest
just to try and bridge that difference.
And I think the way to go about doing that
is trying to make some of our foreign policy research
actually practical for foreign policy practitioners.
So that's what's driving my research.
To actually make some recommendations as to how
their processes can be improved,
how the process of foreign policy making can be opened up,
to incorporate other voices and other actors.
And also improve work for the big bureaucracy itself.
I mean it's no secret that our federal infrastructure
and federal public service is suffering from
resourcing issues and analytical capacity issues.
So if they can actually establish linkages into academia,
it probably helps them in their work as well.
So that's what drove me to undertake this research.