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Working together to de-mystify policy

Posted by: Gareth Davies, Posted on: 7 October 2021 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
A photo of people discussing public services

Gareth Davies, Director General at Department for Transport, reveals what policymakers do in their jobs day-to-day and his ambition for the profession to better reflect the diversity of UK citizens.

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Making public policy more inclusive

Posted by: Andrew Knight, Posted on: 2 September 2021 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research
A group of people participate in an event about designing public services.

Principal Policy Designer, Andrew Knight, reports what policymakers and the evidence base says about inclusive citizen centred design.

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Evidence can drive public value

Posted by: Andrew Knight, Posted on: 12 August 2021 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research
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Principal Policy Designer, Andrew Knight, writes about what policymakers and the evidence base says about how designing policy with evidence can increase public value.

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Taking a systems approach to Early Years policy

Posted by: Alice Goldman, Posted on: 15 July 2021 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
Government workers collaborate on designing early years services.

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.

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11 things policymakers need to improve outcomes for citizens

Posted by: Andrew Knight, Posted on: 1 July 2021 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research
Policymakers in a meeting

Principal Policy Designer, Andrew Knight, writes about what policymakers say they need to deliver more meaningful outcomes for citizens.

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Using research to design policies and services

Posted by: Andrew Knight, Posted on: 24 June 2021 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research

Watch this short film of people who work in a multidisciplinary team talk about how they use research to make public policies and services.

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How to set up a multidisciplinary policy design team

Posted by: Andrew Knight, Posted on: 17 June 2021 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research
Civil Servant planning a team

Principal Policy Designer, Andrew Knight, writes about how teams across government are making multidisciplinary policy design teams work.

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What’s so good about a multidisciplinary team?

Posted by: Niamh Webster, Posted on: 10 June 2021 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
Civil Servants discussing ideas

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

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What does it mean to transform policy making?

Posted by: Simon Parker, Posted on: 27 May 2021 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
Civil servants sharing their ideas

Policymakers are keen to modernise their practice. Simon Parker, the UK government's leader for transformation and policy capability, writes about how policymaking may change in the future.

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