Oscar Nowlan

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I am a final-year PhD candidate at the Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science and Research Fellow at LSE Cities.

I study how governments are organised, how they deliver public services, and how they are held accountable. In my PhD, I focus in particular on how blame is allocated and contested in public services and executive politics, and on the strategies policymakers use to avoid it. I am also interested more widely in the study of bureaucracy, regulation, and policymaking. My research has been published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

Beyond academia, I have direct experience working on public policy in the United Kingdom, having previously worked as a Senior Policy Advisor at HM Treasury and in other Civil Service and local government roles.