Lucy is the Arts and Humanities Research Council research fellow embedded in the Cabinet Office Policy Lab. She is a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Brighton and Associate Fellow at Said Business School, University of Oxford. You can find her on Twitter @lixindex.
One strand of the Open Policy Making agenda is about using a broader range of evidence to inform policy. For example the What Works centres were set up to enable policy officials to access research and make use of it …
Four years after the Government Digital Service was established and 18 months after Policy Lab was set up, design is growing ever more visible in the work of civil servants. Should all policy makers actually be policy designers?
...civil service. “We hope to get insights we wouldn’t get elsewhere and use them to create interventions we wouldn’t otherwise have thought of.” Barriers and challenges The culture within which...
...work in the basement conference room where the workshop took place, and got stuck in. They helped themselves to craft materials arranged on a table as well as flipchart paper,...
...For Policy Lab, this demonstrator was an opportunity to try out three things: using ethnographic research to shape policy making; engaging a broad network of stakeholders in creating policy; and...