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Measuring the impact of design training

Posted by: Suzanne How and Diane Pochard, Posted on: 6 April 2023 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research
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Suzanne How and Diane Pochard from Department for Health and Social Care seek your help in understanding how best to evaluate investments in design capability.

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Democracy, Design and Public Policy: potential and pitfalls

Posted by: Lucy Kimbell, Posted on: 12 January 2023 - Categories: Events, PublicPolicyDesign
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Professor Lucy Kimbell from Central Saint Martins, University of London invites colleagues to join our next AHRC Design and Policy Network event on Friday 17 February 2023.

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The value of public design

Posted by: Andrew Knight, Posted on: 1 December 2022 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Head of UK Policy Design Community, Andrew Knight, writes about why governments should be design-centred.

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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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Launching government’s first ever multidisciplinary course

Posted by: Paul Kett, Posted on: 3 November 2022 - Categories: Events, PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Paul Kett from the Department for Education introduces the UK government's transformational Policy-to-Delivery Course.

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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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Back to school: pupil designer wins award

Posted by: Lily Macaskill and Laura Gray, Posted on: 8 September 2022 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
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Lily Macaskill, Year 12 pupil at Alexandra Park School, in conversation with her teacher Laura Gray, on winning a national prize for design

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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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Tensions and resistances in the field of design in policy

Posted by: Jocelyn Bailey, Posted on: 14 July 2022 - Categories: Events, PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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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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Next generation public policy design

Posted by: Andrew Knight and Lucy Kimbell, Posted on: 19 May 2022 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Dr Lucy Kimbell and Andrew Knight write about a major new initiative to join up government and universities on championing design as key for making policy and services that drive outstanding public value.

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