{"id":4,"date":"2015-12-07T14:27:54","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T14:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iprblog\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-10-21T20:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T19:16:37","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iprblog\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Institute for Policy Research blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IPR blog is a run by the University of Bath <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/ipr\">Institute for Policy Research (IPR)<\/a> for researchers, academics and policy experts to blog on a range of topical policy relevant issues. It offers expert analysis, debate and comment on recent developments across UK government, policy and academia.<\/p>\n<p>We publish posts which reflect the expertise in research at the University of Bath, and mirror the current priorities of external policy stakeholders and research funders.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome and encourage high quality, research-based contributions for this blog. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iprblog\/contribute\/\">Find out more about our editorial guidelines and how to become a contributor to the IPR blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IPR blog is a run by the University of Bath Institute for Policy Research (IPR) for researchers, academics and policy experts to blog on a range of topical policy relevant issues. It offers expert analysis, debate and comment on...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iprblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iprblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iprblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iprblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iprblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iprblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/iprblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}