Uusikylä, Petri Juhani
Academic degree
Doctor of Social Sciences (University of Helsinki), Docent (University of Eastern Finland)
Title
Tutkimusjohtaja
Unit
Sosiaali- ja terveyshallintotiede
Fields of expertise
Public Policy, complexity theory, systems change, social network analysis, public governance, law drafting, evaluation
Fields of science
517 Political science, 5141 Sociology, 513 Law
Language skills
English, German
Email
petri.uusikyla@uwasa.fi
Description of activity:
Petri Uusikylä (Doctor of Social Sciences, Docent) has over 25 years experience in public policy related research, capacity building and evaluation.
Dr. Uusikylä is ex-chairman of the of the Finnish Section of the International Institute for Administrative Sciences IIAS and Board Member of the Finnish Evaluation Society. He has a comprehensive list of publications in the fields of innovation policy, regulatory impact assessment, public budgeting, policy evaluation, systems analysis, complexity and methodology as well as European policy-making and public managements reform and development aid. He has also been government adviser on public policy evaluation, EU-policy making and performance management for several EU Member States and OECD-countries. He is specialized in public policy design and deliberative methods and social experimentation. He has facilitated more than 250 strategy and policy design workshops, working groups and innovation labs.