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Nina Cutler

Policy Designer at Policy Lab

Using experimental methods to reimagine decision-making for the freshwater system, post 2043

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How can we find and develop ideas that are truly different to the status quo? It’s a question that many policymakers ask themselves, either to seek new ways to improve policy outcomes or to plan for the unexpected. Typically, we …

Introducing RegBox: using serious games in regulatory development

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Today Policy Lab is introducing RegBox – a toolkit enabling policymakers to convene stakeholders and work together to make decisions affecting regulation, using serious games. The toolkit will consist of game patterns for different use cases, a collection of case …

Lab Long Read: Policy Consultations - Part 2: A role for data science?

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This is a screenshot of the prototype data science policy consultation dashboard.

This is the second half of a two-part Lab Long Read on a recent collaborative project between Policy Lab and the Department for Transport (DfT) on the policy consultation process. The blog series is for those with a curiosity for how the policy consultation process works and are interested in new ways of analysing consultations.

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