Policy Lab mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.
This blog launches a new co-design toolkit to support the development of services for early years. The co-design toolkit is a practical set of resources created to enable local authorities and communities to design public services together. It has been …
Policy Lab has been exploring how serious games can help civil servants make more intentional decisions about organisation design. This post shares what we learned from designing and testing a new game with OD&D professionals across government.
Can artistic and design-led methods help policymaking be more people-centred and participatory? In autumn 2024, Policy Lab collaborated with Demos in a public event to explore this question as part of their Collaborative Democracy Network. Policy Lab has been at …
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 to ground policy in lived experience. This year we …
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 already part of the Policy Profession Standards, and we are excited to see …
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 Council, MANIFEST, evaluates the role that artistic strategies could play in policymaking, …
Policy Lab has experimented with Artificial Intelligence (AI) in policy development with teams across government, and beyond, for a number of years. In 2019 we worked with the Department for Transport’s data science team to consider the role that AI …
Policy Lab is celebrating 10 years of bringing new methods into government. An important part of our story is our pioneering use of ethnography in policymaking. We have brought our ethnographic approach to independent reviews, the creation of strategies, the …
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 Policy Lab's methods, offer and impact.
Policy Lab provides an experimental environment for testing and evaluating new ways to make policy. In our ten-year history we have created space for designers, technologists, ethnographers and other novel practitioners, all with the aim to make policy more effective, …