Policy Lab mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.
Policy Lab and the Policy Profession have launched a new, free five-part course called People-Centred Policy Design, on FutureLearn. The course will help policy makers apply innovative, people-centred tools and methods. This course is for policy makers interested in integrating …
What if policymakers could make more effective and more creative use of technology to get better results for citizens? Policy Lab set out to find the answer to this question by hiring the UK government’s first Creative Technologist in Spring …
The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Welsh Government have just launched a public consultation ahead of a new Fisheries Management Plan for Seabass. Policy Lab partnered with them in the lead up to a formal …
Policy Lab recently worked on a project that explored how resettled refugees can participate in language learning that supports their integration into society. To explore this area, we combined film ethnography and co-design to learn from and create solutions with …
Policy Lab has a history of bringing experimental and innovative approaches into policymaking. In January, we wrote about the launch of MANIFEST, our new experimental initiative to evaluate the role of art in policy. As part of MANIFEST, the Arts …
Policy Lab has an eight year history of testing innovative approaches to policymaking. Central to this story is collaboration between different disciplines, whether they be from the social sciences, sciences, humanities or arts. Some of the methods, such as design …
Since 2014, Policy Lab has brought in design and research placements to get first hand experience in the growing field of Policy Design. Over the years our placements have contributed significantly to the Policy Lab's dynamic and inclusive DNA. We …
Prototypes are a key part of how designers and policy designers use their skills to improve policymaking and test new ideas. We wrote about the advantages of a prototyping mindset in 2017, learning lessons from a project at that time …
We bring leading edge approaches to policymaking into the heart of government. Over the past eight years we have pioneered the use of policy design, ethnography, systems thinking and collective intelligence.
This post sets out Collective Intelligence Lab’s reflections on our experiments to date and how this approach could be applied to complex policy areas such as climate change. What is collective intelligence? At Policy Lab, we strive to radically improve …