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Making multidisciplinary teams work better

Kate Bruckshaw and Chris Beardsell, 16 September 2021 - Case study, PublicPolicyDesign

Kate Bruckshaw and Chris Beardsell from DWP write about the challenges of making policy design teams work well.

Taking a systems approach to Early Years policy

Alice Whitehead, 15 July 2021 - Case study, PublicPolicyDesign

Alice Whitehead, who leads a policy design team, writes about how the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government have taken a systems thinking approach to policy design.

How we mapped the policymaking process

Ben Tate and Heather Madden, 8 July 2021 - Case study, PublicPolicyDesign, Research

Government service designers, Ben Tate and Heather Madden, write about mapping the way that policy is made in the UK.

What’s so good about a multidisciplinary team?

Niamh Webster, 10 June 2021 - Case study, PublicPolicyDesign

Niamh Webster, a policymaker in Scottish Government, writes about her experience of joining a multidisciplinary team for the first time.

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