Paul Wagner
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Dr Paul Wagner PhD, FHEA

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  P.Wagner@napier.ac.uk

   

Biography

Dr Paul Wagner joined Edinburgh Napier Business School in September 2022. Prior to joining Napier, he was a lecturer in leadership and management at Northumbria University in Newcastle and a postdoctoral researcher at the Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science in the University of Helsinki in Finland. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics & sociology and a PhD in Simulation Science from University College Dublin. He is a fellow of the HEA, having earned a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice from Northumbria University in 2022.
His research uses network methods to study collaboration and coordination problems in the context of environmental governance problems, with a particular focus on climate change policymaking processes. His research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as The Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Governance, Public Administration, Environmental Politics, and Social Networks.
Dr Wagner has a particular interest in data literacy and the pedagogy of numeracy. He is an experienced teacher of quantitative research methods to both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

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On the Acoustics of Policy Learning: Can Co‐Participation in Policy Forums Break Up Echo Chambers?

Journal Article
Malkamäki, A., Wagner, P. M., Brockhaus, M., Toppinen, A., & Ylä‐Anttila, T. (2021)
On the Acoustics of Policy Learning: Can Co‐Participation in Policy Forums Break Up Echo Chambers?. Policy Studies Journal, 49(2), 431-456. https://doi.org/10.1111/psj.12378
Overcoming common-pool resource dilemmas requires learning across different sectors of society. However, policy actors frequently entrench themselves in so-called echo chamber...

Can policy forums overcome echo chamber effects by enabling policy learning? Evidence from the Irish climate change policy network

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Wagner, P. M., & Ylä-Anttila, T. (2020)
Can policy forums overcome echo chamber effects by enabling policy learning? Evidence from the Irish climate change policy network. Journal of Public Policy, 40(2), 194-211. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0143814x18000314
Research has repeatedly shown that individuals and organisations tend to obtain information from others whose beliefs are similar to their own, forming “echo chambers” with th...

Who got their way? Advocacy coalitions and the Irish climate change law

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Wagner, P., & Ylä-Anttila, T. (2018)
Who got their way? Advocacy coalitions and the Irish climate change law. Environmental Politics, 27(5), 872-891. https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2018.1458406
Which organisations saw their positions on two contentious issues reflected in the Irish climate law of 2015, and what role did advocacy coalitions play in the policy process?...

Trends, frames and discourse networks: analysing the coverage of climate change in Irish newspapers

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Wagner, P., & Payne, D. (2017)
Trends, frames and discourse networks: analysing the coverage of climate change in Irish newspapers. Irish Journal of Sociology, 25(1), 5-28. https://doi.org/10.7227/ijs.0011
This paper investigates how anthropogenic climate change is presented to the Irish public by three of Ireland’s most important national newspapers. We argue that Irish newspap...

Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse

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Broadbent, J., Sonnett, J., Botetzagias, I., Carson, M., Carvalho, A., Chien, Y., …Zhengyi, S. (2016)
Conflicting Climate Change Frames in a Global Field of Media Discourse. Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World, 2, https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023116670660
Reducing global emissions will require a global cosmopolitan culture built from detailed attention to conflicting national climate change frames (interpretations) in media dis...