Project Title: Hybridity and construct of meanings

Supervisor: Dr Alec Fraser, Dr Clare FitzGerald

Year of Entry: 2023, Full-time

Emilia Tshimanga is a PhD candidate in the Public Services Management & Organisation department at King's Business School. Her research explores the changing role of evaluation and evidence in public governance. She examines how concepts such as evaluation, evidence-based policymaking, and data-driven governance acquire meaning in practice, and how these meanings are shaped by, and in turn shape, the institutional and policy contexts in which they are enacted. Her work contributes to understanding how changing conceptions of evaluation and evidence influence governance, policymaking, and public sector reform. Drawing primarily on qualitative and interpretive methods, she uses case study research, documentary analysis, and interviews to examine these processes in practice.