Policy Lab UK

Launching the new Policy Lab prospectus! From catalytic interventions to ambitious system change, we are delighted to share our methods, our offer and our impact. Get in touch to commission us or learn about our work. openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2024/07/09/lau…

🚨 We are hiring! 🚨 Can you be Policy Lab's Aesthetics and Communications Lead? We are looking for an ambitious and talented individual to lead the development of Policy Lab's visual aesthetics and communications, supporting our work to radically transform policymaking and centre it around citizens. Deadline: Monday 26th May 2025. civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j…

Government Skills & @PolicyLab invite UK civil servants to join a large-scale and innovative online #CollectiveIntelligence debate to shape the future of learning and development within the #CivilService. The debate will take place from 22–29 April. Sign up: jumpto.policylab.gov.uk/future-of-skil…

We had a fantastic couple of days at @hmtreasury's Policy Festival. Lab's co-chair @SRGBennett spoke as part of the panel with @DarrenPJones, Chief Sec to the Treasury, on how technology can improve policy. We also displayed Dryden Goodwin's artwork on multiple disadvantage, produced as part of MANIFEST, and hosted a stall with @PolicyProfUK to showcase our projects and inspire discussion.

Our film ethnography is going into the metaverse! With virtual worlds becoming an increasing part of everyday life, we must understand them and explore them as research sites in their own right. We have developed ethnography in the metaverse so they we can do just this. We can now spend time with participants in online spaces to explore their worlds and communities and how that is relevant for policy. You can read about the benefits of this exciting new approach below in our latest article below, where we developed avatars in Grand Theft Auto to gather new types of evidence from diverse participants about policy: openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2024/12/11/why…

Our panel conversation with @Demos this week covered rich, emergent ground, the integration of arts and participatory policymaking. You can rewatch the event and hear from our speakers, including citizen jury members, about work to rethink participatory government and decision-making through embodied, experiential and socially engaged practice. youtube.com/live/qSF2QY_45…

Policy Lab has been working at the forefront of people-centred and participatory methods for 10 years. To learn more about these approaches and the power that artistic, creative and design-led work can bring to participatory policy, read our latest blog: shorturl.at/352w3 and sign up for our event with @Demos on 25th November: shorturl.at/c2Vll

📢 Join the Collaborative Democracy Network for our next event with @PolicyLabUK. We'll discuss the role of art, design and participation in public policy with @TamFinkelstein, Catherine Howe, Kieran Sheehan from @EveryoneHereCMA, and Yara El-Sherbini.⬇️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/art-design-a…

Honoured to be part of @WorldDesignOrg's Beyond Boundaries Policy Design conference with @DesignLabUCSD, spanning San Diego and Tijuana, to exchange knowledge and ideas on design, policy and cross-border community.

We are really looking forward to Demos' Collaborative Democracy Event featuring DfE Permanent Secretary Susan Acland-Hood on Monday 11th November. Look out for details of our own event with the CDN coming soon.

We collaborated with @NaturalEngland to consider the role that creative practitioners can play supporting protected environmental sites. Read the promising results from our research with six universities here: openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2024/10/29/a-r… Written by @brendanjarnold & @SRGBennett

WE ARE RECRUITING! Are you a designer wanting to use your skills to help solve policy challenges in innovative, beautiful & people-centred ways? Join @PolicyLabUK ! Deadline: Sunday 20 Oct. Apply here: bit.ly/3F7Z6p9

Speaking with +500 policy folk today at the Policy Festival helped me understand that I think about policy innovation like a collage artist: overlaying & juxtaposing disciplines, methods & approaches to achieve something more beautiful & ultimately more long-lasting.

We are part of the 2024 Policy Festival! See Co-Head of Lab @srgbennett speak about innovation in policy, from collective intelligence to artist approaches, alongside panellists @geoffmulgan, Marta Urquilla, @RGurumurthy & Sapana Agrawal. Mon 30th Sept, details below

Our co-Head of Policy Lab, Camilla Buchanan, is speaking at the launch of 'Design for dementia, mental health and wellbeing: Co-design, Interventions and Policy' tonight. We have contributed a chapter highlighting Policy Lab’s decade-long experience in understanding and involving citizens in policy creation - where mental health often plays a defining role in how, and whether, people engage with government and public services. @annie_camilla, @Kate_Langham, @VanessaLeft

Co-Head of Policy Lab @SRGBennett recently spoke at the @BritishAcademy_ Adventures in Interdisciplinarity event, reflecting on how making, showing & framing have helped make the case for artistic approaches in policy. Read more here: openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2024/03/26/man…

Hosting @ChelseaMauldin - Founder and Ex Director of @publicpolicylab - last week, helped us reflect on evaluation models, designing future policy systems, power relations and much more. Thanks to Chelsea for the time spent with us!

We used generative AI to visualise science & policy ideas for the future of the subsurface. Read about our experimental work for the Foresight team of @uksciencechief here: openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2024/07/30/gen… @CelynBricker @SRGBennett @aemathers2

FINAL FEW DAYS to apply for our new Head of Creative Innovation Practice. Can you be at the forefront of bringing new creative innovation practices to UK policy development? Deadline 11:55pm Wed 31st July. civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j…