...activities in the workshop proposed what it could be like for people in the future. Unexpected insights included that some people going through separation and divorce lacked confidence in their...
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...are important, the big picture helps us identify patterns and the user perspective helps us identify meaning. For example, in the Lab we often talk about the importance of bringing...
...should take. Here are the results of the workshop. http://www.slideshare.net/Openpolicymaking/ppsu-lab-lightwriteupcompressed Are the ‘moments of truth’ and ‘hot spots’ on the characters’ learning journeys ones you recognise? Do the hopes...
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...that robust evidence underlies local and national policy making. There are so many areas of public spend where we still have no real evidence about whether the interventions that we...
...democracy, the application of robust methods of testing variations of approach in policy and practice - as pushed by the Behavioural Insights Team inside the centre of government itself -...
...wider series - see also our own Paul Maltby on 'why I tweet and who I follow'!) Jessica Bland for Nesta looks at how crowdfunding and peer support infrastructures could...
...of drinking straws. Stalls covered a wide range of policy challenges such as Digital Skills and Open Policy Making and colleagues from the Civil Service Policy Profession Support Unit were...
...online platform. The EPIC project is one contribution from the EU to the increasing need for evidence-based policy making, represented in the UK by the What Works network of...