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Four years into Policy Lab: the power of emergence and being open to opportunity
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 on over 40 policy projects, working with over 6,000 public...
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The Open Policy Making toolkit
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...
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Creative soup
Where does creativity come from? What are the conditions we need to create to encourage it within the civil service, and indeed in all workplaces? As Samar Shams argues, most of us don’t realise we’re...
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What does it mean to be a designer in policy?
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...
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Positive Engagement
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...
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Supporting parliamentary youth engagement for national democracy week
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...
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How can we make it easier for policy makers to practise open policy?
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 simple as just...
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International Design in Government Conference 2018
International football makes way for the first International Design in Government Conference this Tuesday and Wednesday in London. #ItsComingHome Expect something experimental at our morning workshop...
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The Open Policy Making Toolkit - user research
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...
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Positive engagement – our user-centred approach
By Harsha Parmar, Disability Employment and Support Strategy, Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) I am leading a project within the DWP to better understand what drives more meaningful engagement...
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