{"id":1302,"date":"2015-12-08T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2015-12-08T13:00:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T03:00:26","slug":"when-evidence-and-politics-collide-the-david-nutt-affair-roundtable-meeting-featuring-professor-reece-walters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/2015\/12\/08\/when-evidence-and-politics-collide-the-david-nutt-affair-roundtable-meeting-featuring-professor-reece-walters\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;When evidence and politics collide: The David Nutt affair&#8221; &#8211; Roundtable Meeting Featuring Professor Reece Walters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.crimeandjustice.org.uk\/sites\/crimeandjustice.org.uk\/files\/logo.jpg\" alt=\"Home\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On 14 September, 2015, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimeandjustice.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (UK)<\/a> hosted a roundtable meeting featuring\u00a0Dr Deborah Drake (The Open University) and Professor Reece Walters (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">They discussed their research into the David Nutt affair. Drawing on interviews conducted with many of the key players, they conclude that high-stakes political issues can open up unprecedented opportunities for critical voices to engage in unbridled critique and to mobilise movements of dissent.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Professor Nutt was also in attendance and gave his thoughts and reflections on the lessons learned from the 2009 events and the current prospects for evidence-informed policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Footage from the seminar can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crimeandjustice.org.uk\/news\/when-evidence-and-politics-collide-david-nutt-affair\" target=\"_blank\">here.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 14 September, 2015, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies (UK) hosted a roundtable meeting featuring\u00a0Dr Deborah Drake (The Open University) and Professor Reece Walters (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[11499],"class_list":{"0":"post-1302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"category-news","8":"tag-reecewalters"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1304,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qut.edu.au\/crime-and-justice-research-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}