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Designing policy with complex evidence

Posted by: Becky Miller, Anne Thurston and Robin Hancock, Posted on: 8 May 2025 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
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Farming policy design experts from Defra get to grips with making sense of complexity.

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Queer(y)ing policy

Posted by: Peter Matthews, Posted on: 15 June 2023 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research
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Peter Matthews from University of Stirling writes about how more accurate LGBTQ+ representation can improve policymaking.

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Untapped potential from design research for public policy

Posted by: Ramia Mazé, Posted on: 17 November 2022 - Categories: Events, PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Professor Ramia Mazé from London College of Communications reports the latest thinking from our policy design university network.

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Improving the policymaking environment

Posted by: Rebecca Lester and Serena Nϋsing, Posted on: 20 October 2022 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research
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Rebecca Lester and Serena Nüsing from UK Policy Profession examine what good policymaking environments look like and how they might be improved for policymakers.

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Back to the future: policy memory at the heart of reform

Posted by: Jonathan Mitchell, Posted on: 20 October 2022 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Jonathan Mitchell from Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education writes about the importance of maintaining a link to the past for making great policies and services.

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Making better policies and services

Posted by: Jeffrey Allen, Posted on: 6 October 2022 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Jeffrey Allen from the Ministry of Justice shares his advice on developing policies and services that deliver long-term positive change.

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Event 3 October: Untapped potential for public policy from design research

Posted by: Liz Richardson, Lucy Kimbell and Andrew Knight, Posted on: 14 August 2022 - Categories: Events, PublicPolicyDesign
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Join the our next event bringing together university academics and government practitioners to talk about policy design.

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It’s complex, not complicated

Posted by: Jeffrey Allen, Posted on: 11 August 2022 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
A hand-drawn map showing the complexity of the England's prison and probation service.

Jeffrey Allen from the Ministry of Justice writes about the complex nature of public services and how to design them.

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Better services: consigning silos to the bin

Posted by: Alec Steel, Posted on: 28 July 2022 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research, Thought leadership
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Alec Steel from the UK's National Audit Office writes about how important it is to join up policy with the delivery of public services.

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Tensions and resistances in the field of design in policy

Posted by: Jocelyn Bailey, Posted on: 14 July 2022 - Categories: Events, PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
A photo of 5 paper mache models of the Earth.Created by Deborah Mason for the On Some Other World project.

Dr Jocelyn Bailey from UAL Social Design Institute reports on what happened at our first AHRC Design and Policy Network meeting.

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