Jane K. Lê’s (2013) excellent qualitative study of how the oil industry deals with pressures about the environment can be found at:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1350508413489817

You can read Alison Brown’s (2010) paper at:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1468794109356743

Sometimes researchers make the mistake of thinking that you can influence policy simply by sending in a report. Sue Oreszczyn and Susan Carr (2008) argue that researchers need to think more broadly about how to get research across to governments. The following example shows how they used interactive workshops with civil servants that involved different ‘sce­narios’ to discuss research on GM foods:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1468794107087479

Quoting my own research as well as his work on disabled people using buses in Boston, Ross Koppel (2008) demonstrates the relevance of qualitative research:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/193672440800200201

For further analysis of architects’ work, see the paper by Lorenzo Mondada (2012), at:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1468794112438149

For more by Luff and Heath (2012) on visual research, visit:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1468794112436655

The Brookings Institute (United States) provides reports of the relation between research and public policy:

www.brookings.edu

You can read my private clinic study (Silverman 1984) at:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0038038584018002003

You can read Frith and Kitzinger’s (1998) paper at:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0038038598032002005

You can read Hepburn and Potter’s (2004) paper at:

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0190272511408055