Testing policy sprints
...On the third day, we invited stakeholders and user representatives in to check our assumptions and understanding. It’s not often that stakeholders are invited in at the ‘understanding the problem’...
Policy Lab
Policy Lab mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.
Policy Lab: looking back, looking forward
At the beginning of January we welcomed back Hannah Rutter. This is her first blog and we asked her what differences she's found on her return.
Open policy making in action: Empowering divorcing couples and separating families to create sustainable solutions
...Around 30 interviews, site visits and mystery shopping with people directly involved in family mediation, separation, divorce, court and related public services In depth ethnographic interviews with six mediators and...
Policy Lab gathers thoughts on the future
Given 2014 is drawing to a close we thought we would look to the future, beat the Sunday papers to it, and canter through some of the emerging trends and...
Policy Lab brings policy folk together to explore potential professional accreditation
...Support Unit to bring the policy community together to investigate what professional accreditation might involve. The project team want to get the policy community involved to understand how different policy...
Open ideas days: the products
A few weeks ago, we told you about the Open Ideas Days that Policy Lab was planning to support the Deputy Prime Minister’s Northern Futures project. They took place on October 16th: check out a moment-by-moment account here and a …
October 16th 2014: Northern Futures Open Ideas Days
On October 16th 2014, Policy Lab held open ideas days in 8 cities across the north of England, holding discussions and gathering ideas for the Deputy Prime Minister's Northern Futures project.
How we’re helping share ideas on northern growth
Posted by:
Lisa Ollerhead, Posted on:
-
Categories:
Examples and findings, Policy Lab, Skills, tools and techniques
...agree the best ideas and what to do next. The project team want to get people involved in online crowdsourcing and on Twitter (#northernfutures). So the OPM team and Policy...
Policy Lab goes back to school
...and public services that were delivered without an ounce of empathy. Services do not exist on their own; they are co-created with a user. Taxis or hotels cannot work without...
Policy Lab news: second project, working with the Ministry of Justice
A couple of weeks ago, friends of Policy Lab gathered together to celebrate progress on the Lab's first project - and made a surprise announcement of the second major project! Read on to find out what we'll be doing with …