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Positive engagement – our user-centred approach
By Harsha Parmar, Disability Employment and Support Strategy, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Policy Lab
Policy Lab is bringing new policy techniques to the departments across the civil service, helping design services around people’s experience, using data analytics and new digital tools.
The Open Policy Making Toolkit - user research
The Open Policy Making Toolkit was first posted in 2015 to help civil servants incorporate open policy practices into their work. Today, whilst it’s arguably not yet the ‘default,’ open policy making is certainly more widely practised and better understood. …
International Design in Government Conference 2018
International football makes way for the first International Design in Government Conference this Tuesday and Wednesday in London. #ItsComingHome
How can we make it easier for policy makers to practise open policy?
We all want to be better at open policy making. And we’ve spent a lot of time in Lab working out how to do that - what works in real life, not just in theory. We recognise it’s not as …
Supporting parliamentary youth engagement for national democracy week
This year marks 100 years since women first won the right to vote in the UK, and the 90th anniversary of the Equal Franchise Act (#TalkDemocracy). To build on their legacy and encourage wider democratic participation, Policy Lab supported the …
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 …
What does it mean to be a designer in policy?
By Carol Pizatto: Policy Lab is known for its diverse team of analysts, ethnographers, policy makers and last, but not least, designers like me. The team has also appointed the world’s first Policy Designer - as lobbied for by former …
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 …
Four years into Policy Lab: the power of emergence and being open to opportunity
If you had told me four years ago, when I joined the Cabinet Office, that by 2018 we would have worked across 15 major government departments
What’s the role of design in policy?
By Jasmine Robinson: It’s a big question for a short blog post, but over the course of my three month placement with Policy Lab, it is one that has been constantly on my mind. The Lab is a mix of experienced …