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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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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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Policy design’s big year

Posted by: Andrew Knight, Posted on: 9 March 2023 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign
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Head of UK Government's Policy Design Community, Andrew Knight, sets out what's been achieved over the past year and the exciting work planned for next year.

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The strategy is delivery

Posted by: Kate Bruckshaw and Naomi Sheppard, Posted on: 23 February 2023 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
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Department for Education's policy design team write about their innovative move into a delivery unit.

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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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Making policy inclusive

Posted by: Selvin Brown, Posted on: 22 September 2022 - Categories: Events, PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Selvin Brown, Deputy Race Champion for the Civil Service, writes about how good policymakers clearly understand the impact of their work on the citizens they serve.

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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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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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