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The Behavioural Insight Team’s latest report, Behavioural Government, argues that decisions of policy-makers are affected by cognitive bias (p.7). BIT identify eight of the most common cognitive biases in government which they categorise into three areas: noticing, deliberating, and executing. …
By Harsha Palmar, Disability Employment and Support Strategy, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
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 football makes way for the first International Design in Government Conference this Tuesday and Wednesday in London. #ItsComingHome
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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