Policy Lab UK

We collaborated with Natural England to consider the role that creative practitioners can play supporting protected environmental sites. The work builds our MANIFEST programme, supported by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), which explores the possible role of art in policymaking. Initial ideas include student placements with Natural England, course-integrations, summer schools, competitions, on-site workshops and the creation of shared resources such as databases and collaborative maps – read more from our research with universities here: https://lnkd.in/dsqJvZ3W Written by: Brendan Arnold & Stephen Bennett With thanks to our collaborators: Ros Gray, Simon Andrews, Tanya Griffiths, Lucelia Rodrigues, Dr Jo Phillips, Nina Stevenson, Ana Rute Costa, Natural England

Calling Civil Servants for placements in Policy Lab!   We are looking for existing civil servants who are interested in 6-month placements at Policy Lab. If you would like to hone your skills in cutting edge innovation and participatory policymaking, and support the growth of innovation capability in your home department then please get in touch. Please note this opportunity is only available to existing civil servants. You can read more about Policy Lab in our latest prospectus: https://lnkd.in/d6QqXP4s For more information and how to apply: Placement.ENQUIRIES@policylab.gov.uk

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WE ARE RECRUITING! Are you a designer wanting to use your skills to help solve policy challenges in innovative, beautiful and people-centred ways? Join Policy Lab! See more details on Civil Service Jobs, deadline Sunday 20 October.

Policy Lab is part of the Policy Festival! Open to all Civil Servants, our session is Monday 30th 12-1pm, just after Tamara Finkelstein kicks off the festival with an interview with Simon Case and Susan Acland-Hood. See Co-Head of Lab, Stephen Bennett, as part of a star-studded panel with Sir Geoff Mulgan, Marta Urquilla, Ravi Gurumurthy chaired by Sapana Agrawal speaking about innovation in policy – from #collectiveintelligence to our work with creative practitioners and systemic thinkers. See details and book your free spot here: https://lnkd.in/eU7nZA9n #PolicyFestival

Our co-Head of Policy Lab, Dr. 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. Vanessa Lefton, Dr Kate Langham

Co-Head of Policy Lab Stephen Bennett recently spoke at the The British Academy's Adventures in Interdisciplinarity event, reflecting on how making, showing and framing have helped make the case for artistic approaches in policy. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/drNv-CDk

For those joining the upcoming systems innovation conference, this one is set to be an exciting discussion on a timely and important topic. The talk will draw upon the experience and insights of Mariana Mirabile of the OECD Environment, Alex Fleming from the Policy Lab UK and Georgia Cameron FRSA the Policy Innovation Lead at Dark Matter Labs, with the panel moderated by Nadim Choucair Full event info here: https://lnkd.in/emSpuJ3C

Thanks Celyn Bricker from Policy Lab UK for this lovely blog summarising the work you did with us a year ago. https://lnkd.in/eSPTzZiT The way you generated those images in real time during the workshop based on some snippets of information and how we then used them to help illustrate the pitches was truly inspiring and a real demonstration of a good use of generative AI! Looking forward to the findings of the project going to press in the coming days: watch that underground space!

Hosting Chelsea Mauldin - Founder and Ex Director of Public Policy Lab - 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!