On Policy Lab and Lab to Policy
In my view one of the most exciting things about Policy Lab has been its ability to work both in and outside the Whitehall system at the same time. When people asked me about the reasons for its success, I’d …
Beatrice Andrews
Positive engagement – our user-centred approach
By Harsha Palmar, Disability Employment and Support Strategy, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Positive Engagement
We promised we’d do more to tell the stories of our projects, wherever possible. This is from Sam, a faststreamer who worked on an ongoing project with the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP). Our 'Positive Engagement' project looks at …
Creative soup
Where does creativity come from? What are the conditions we need to create to encourage it within the civil service, and indeed in all workplaces? As Samar Shams argues, most of us don’t realise we’re creative, but the shifting world …
The Open Policy Making toolkit
Vasant blogged a little while ago about refreshing the open policy making toolkit. Thanks to those of you who told us how you were using it - it’s great to see our tools and materials in so many contexts: from …
A look ahead to the London Design Festival
On 16 September, design is coming to town. We can't wait - the programmes for both the London Design Festival and the Service Design Fringe look amazing. It's a great chance to catch up with all our partners and friends, and hopefully …
On blogging, silence and contemplation
For obvious reasons, we will be going quiet on our blog over the next few weeks. Ok, so it's hardly been noisy recently. To be honest, we've been busy doing stuff and we've got a little bit out of the …
Policy Lab news: second project, working with the Ministry of Justice
A couple of weeks ago, friends of Policy Lab gathered together to celebrate progress on the Lab's first project - and made a surprise announcement of the second major project! Read on to find out what we'll be doing with …
Keeping up with the kids: civil servants get coding
Worried you can’t keep up in a digital world? Intrigued but slightly terrified by talk of conditionals, loops and Java?
Design, digital and data: report back from our Sprint Policy event
Find out what happened at our latest Open Policy Making event, co-hosted with the Government Digital Service. You can read more about what Open Policy Making is and what it looks like in practice on our new blog: https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/