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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
1 year
Launching the new Policy Lab prospectus! From catalytic interventions to ambitious system change, we are delighted to share our methods, our offer and our impact. Get in touch to commission us or learn about our work. https://t.co/LShSzKjZge
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Donna Ward, Director of Strategic Policy in the Department for Education, launches Policy Lab's new prospectus. From catalytic interventions to ambitious system change, read on to find out about...
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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
6 months
🚨 We are hiring! 🚨 Can you be Policy Lab's Aesthetics and Communications Lead? We are looking for an ambitious and talented individual to lead the development of Policy Lab's visual aesthetics and communications, supporting our work to radically transform policymaking and
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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
7 months
Government Skills & @PolicyLab invite UK civil servants to join a large-scale and innovative online #CollectiveIntelligence debate to shape the future of learning and development within the #CivilService. The debate will take place from 22–29 April. Sign up:
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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
11 months
We had a fantastic couple of days at @hmtreasury's Policy Festival. Lab's co-chair @SRGBennett spoke as part of the panel with @DarrenPJones, Chief Sec to the Treasury, on how technology can improve policy. We also displayed Dryden Goodwin's artwork on multiple disadvantage,
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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
11 months
Our film ethnography is going into the metaverse! With virtual worlds becoming an increasing part of everyday life, we must understand them and explore them as research sites in their own right. We have developed ethnography in the metaverse so they we can do just this. We can
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Over the past decade Policy Lab has established a foundational practice in film ethnography. Throughout this time, we have continued to push the boundaries of how this method can support policymakers...
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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
1 year
Our panel conversation with @Demos this week covered rich, emergent ground, the integration of arts and participatory policymaking. You can rewatch the event and hear from our speakers, including citizen jury members, about work to rethink participatory government and
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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
1 year
Policy Lab has been working at the forefront of people-centred and participatory methods for 10 years. To learn more about these approaches and the power that artistic, creative and design-led work can bring to participatory policy, read our latest blog:
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Policy Lab has a ten-year history of using people-centred and participatory methods in policy. Such approaches help to build evidence, understanding and empathy. Participation and engagement are...
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@Demos
Demos
1 year
📢 Join the Collaborative Democracy Network for our next event with @PolicyLabUK. We'll discuss the role of art, design and participation in public policy with @TamFinkelstein, Catherine Howe, Kieran Sheehan from @EveryoneHereCMA, and Yara El-Sherbini.⬇️ https://t.co/6YRwU2m1B5
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Join policymakers, artists, and civil society to explore creative ways to make government more approachable, engaging, and inclusive,
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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
1 year
Honoured to be part of @WorldDesignOrg's Beyond Boundaries Policy Design conference with @DesignLabUCSD, spanning San Diego and Tijuana, to exchange knowledge and ideas on design, policy and cross-border community.
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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
1 year
We are really looking forward to Demos' Collaborative Democracy Event featuring DfE Permanent Secretary Susan Acland-Hood on Monday 11th November. Look out for details of our own event with the CDN coming soon.
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Demos
1 year
📢Next week! 📢 Join Demos' Collaborative Democracy Network for our next event with @involveUK. We'll discuss our Citizens’ White Paper and hear from senior civil servants about the work happening in government to involve citizens in policy making.⬇️ https://t.co/hdUmmaf46p
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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
1 year
We collaborated with @NaturalEngland to consider the role that creative practitioners can play supporting protected environmental sites. Read the promising results from our research with six universities here: https://t.co/GoOd6mfHkY Written by @brendanjarnold & @SRGBennett
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Policy Lab has a 10-year history of convening diverse voices to contribute to policymaking, including those of creative practitioners. Our ongoing collaboration with the Arts and Humanities Research...
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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
1 year
WE ARE RECRUITING! Are you a designer wanting to use your skills to help solve policy challenges in innovative, beautiful & people-centred ways? Join @PolicyLabUK ! Deadline: Sunday 20 Oct. Apply here: https://t.co/C4GBayI8xm
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@SRGBennett
Stephen Bennett
1 year
Speaking with +500 policy folk today at the Policy Festival helped me understand that I think about policy innovation like a collage artist: overlaying & juxtaposing disciplines, methods & approaches to achieve something more beautiful & ultimately more long-lasting.
@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
1 year
We are part of the 2024 Policy Festival! See Co-Head of Lab @srgbennett speak about innovation in policy, from collective intelligence to artist approaches, alongside panellists @geoffmulgan, Marta Urquilla, @RGurumurthy & Sapana Agrawal. Mon 30th Sept, details below
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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
1 year
We are part of the 2024 Policy Festival! See Co-Head of Lab @srgbennett speak about innovation in policy, from collective intelligence to artist approaches, alongside panellists @geoffmulgan, Marta Urquilla, @RGurumurthy & Sapana Agrawal. Mon 30th Sept, details below
@PolicyProfUK
Policy Profession
1 year
Don’t feel like using a cookie cutter work model anymore? Join our ‘Innovators Assemble’ session at the #PolicyFestival. We will investigate how to inspire innovation across the #CivilService #PolicyProfession Policy Festival Sept 30 to Oct 4👇 https://t.co/UGIdtMH7Jx
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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
1 year
Our co-Head of Policy Lab, Camilla Buchanan, is speaking at the launch of 'Design for dementia, mental health and wellbeing: Co-design, Interventions and Policy' tonight. We have contributed a chapter highlighting Policy Lab’s decade-long experience in understanding and
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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
1 year
Co-Head of Policy Lab @SRGBennett recently spoke at the @BritishAcademy_ Adventures in Interdisciplinarity event, reflecting on how making, showing & framing have helped make the case for artistic approaches in policy. Read more here: https://t.co/J4vcXicDPL
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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
1 year
Hosting @ChelseaMauldin - Founder and Ex Director of @publicpolicylab - last week, helped us reflect on evaluation models, designing future policy systems, power relations and much more. Thanks to Chelsea for the time spent with us!
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@PolicyLabUK
Policy Lab UK
1 year
FINAL FEW DAYS to apply for our new Head of Creative Innovation Practice. Can you be at the forefront of bringing new creative innovation practices to UK policy development? Deadline 11:55pm Wed 31st July. https://t.co/D2ZV2jszFV
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