This short essay reflects on the evolution of the journal and the environment it operated in over the last 7 years and volumes. It is anchored to the introductory article in the first issue of the journal under the new editorial team, ‘Learning from a Distance’ (2015) authored by Brian Head, which addressed a perennial question in public administration – the nature of the relationship between policy academics and public servants and considers whether and how that relationship has changed and why. It assesses the impact of Head's prescient advice to focus on building opportunities for learning between policy academics and public servants, paying particular attention to the role of intermediaries, and explores the range of ways in which policy academics and public servants are now engaged in learning, albeit from different distances. It considers the changes to the global and local contexts since 2015 and identifies the challenges ahead for the policy academic/public servant relationship in Australia.

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反思 AJPA，2015-2021：重新审视政策学者与公务员之间的关系——与学习的距离

这篇短文反映了期刊的演变及其在过去 7 年和卷中的运营环境。它锚定在新编辑团队的期刊第一期的介绍性文章中，由 Brian Head 撰写的“远距离学习”（2015 年），该文章解决了公共管理中一个长期存在的问题——政策与政策之间关系的性质学者和公务员，并考虑这种关系是否以及如何发生变化以及为什么发生变化。它评估了海德的先见之明建议的影响，重点是在政策学者和公务员之间建立学习机会，特别关注中介的作用，并探索政策学者和公务员现在参与学习的各种方式，尽管来自不同的距离。