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Introducing public design

Posted by: Andrew Knight, Posted on: 22 September 2023 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research, Thought leadership
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Andrew Knight, Head of UK Policy Design Community, invites designers to participate in the Public Design Review.

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Systems thinking for policymaking

Posted by: Alyx Slater, Posted on: 8 September 2023 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
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Alyx Slater from Food Standards Agency reflects on why systems thinking is an essential component of policy design.

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What is user-centred design without user research?

Posted by: Bhupinder Kaur Mann, Posted on: 27 July 2023 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
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Designer Bhupinder Kaur Mann writes about how HMRC Policy Lab flexed their approach to work with policymaking constraints.

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Democracy, design and public policy

Posted by: Anna Whicher and Lucy Kimbell, Posted on: 13 July 2023 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research
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FCDO's Anna Whicher and Professor Lucy Kimbell report on the debate at our last university-led Design and Policy Network event.

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Multidisciplinary course is a hit

Posted by: Susan Acland-Hood, Posted on: 18 May 2023 - Categories: Case study, Events, PublicPolicyDesign
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Permanent Secretary Susan Acland-Hood writes about Department for Education's succesful new multidisciplinary course.

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Reimagining community empowerment

Posted by: Cara Broadley, Posted on: 4 May 2023 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research
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Cara Broadly from Glasgow School of Art writes about putting Scotland's innovative community participation law into practice.

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What does design do for policymakers?

Posted by: Catherine Durose, Lucy Kimbell, Ramia Mazé and Liz Richardson, Posted on: 23 March 2023 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Research
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Four leading professors who specialise in political science and design research set out their vision for future policy design.

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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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Data and design-driven diplomacy

Posted by: Anna Whicher, Posted on: 20 January 2022 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
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Anna Whicher from the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office writes about how the UK's diplomatic policy is being made in innovative new ways.

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Making multidisciplinary teams work better

Posted by: Kate Bruckshaw and Chris Beardsell, Posted on: 16 September 2021 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
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Kate Bruckshaw and Chris Beardsell from DWP write about the challenges of making policy design teams work well.

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