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Understanding people in places

Posted by: Rebecca Towers, Posted on: 15 March 2024 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
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Rebecca Towers from We Walworth writes about their successful collaboration with the UK's central government.

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You: the aspiring innovator

Posted by: Malcolm Beattie, Posted on: 29 February 2024 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Malcolm Beattie, former head of Northern Ireland's Innovation Lab, writes about how you are the single most important part the innovation process.

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Joining-up Whitehall with local places

Posted by: Ben Greener, Posted on: 15 February 2024 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Senior Civil Servant Ben Greener from Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities writes about how working with citizens in local places has strengthened his policymaking practice.

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Designing the world's most effective border

Posted by: Patrick O'Shea, Posted on: 1 February 2024 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
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Patrick O'Shea writes about how his team have gone about refreshing how the UK's border operates.

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The ecosystem for public entrepreneurship

Posted by: Malcolm Beattie, Posted on: 18 January 2024 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Malcolm Beatie reflects on the past 10 years of leading Northern Ireland's Innovation Lab.

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Embedding a user-centred design team into a policy area

Posted by: Claire Folan, Posted on: 4 January 2024 - Categories: Case study, PublicPolicyDesign
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Claire Folan from the Department for Education writes about her experience of establishing a new policy lab in government.

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Top 10 public policy design blog posts of 2023

Posted by: Editorial team, Posted on: 21 December 2023 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign
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What were your favourite blog posts this year?

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The challenge now for design in policy

Posted by: Catherine Durose, Posted on: 7 December 2023 - Categories: Events, PublicPolicyDesign, Research
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Catherine Durose from the University of Liverpool writes about the launch of a new AHRC-funded report about the future of policy design research.

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Share your views on public design

Posted by: Serena Nϋsing, Posted on: 22 November 2023 - Categories: Events, PublicPolicyDesign, Research
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Serena Nϋsing from Civil Service's Policy Profession invites people who work in design in the UK public sector to participate in a national survey.

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Putting design front and centre

Posted by: Professor Jonathan Slater, Posted on: 16 November 2023 - Categories: PublicPolicyDesign, Thought leadership
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Jonathan Slater, former education Permanent Secretary, writes about the role of design in making policies and services that deliver meaningful outcomes for citizens.

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