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Policy design community

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The policy design community is a place where you can:

• discover tools and methodologies that could support your work
• discuss specific challenges, for example in recruitment
• celebrate successes and learn from failures
• help shape what future policymaking might look like
• learn from and network with like-minded people

Who the community is for

You might be interested in this community if:

• your work involves designing policy in new and innovative ways
• you want to learn more about policy design
• you want to work together on policy issues with other members of the community

You do not have to be in a specific profession to join. However, you must be working in central or local government.

Getting involved

If you’re interested in discussing policy issues, you can:

• join the policy design mailing list using your government email address
• join the policy design channel on the UK government Slack - you can create a Slack account using your government email address
• write posts for the public policy design blog

Policy design events and meetups

The policy design community runs events and meetups to help support research and policy practitioners across government.

Community resources

You may find these resources useful:

• the public policy design blog
• the Open Policy-Making Toolkit to help guide your work
• the Delivery Book for making services and policy in challenging circumstances
• the DIY Toolkit to help you develop ideas and innovate
• the Policy Lab blog
• the Open Innovation blog

Some blog posts worth reading:

• Are you making a bid for design?
• Commissioning public policy and services differently
• What does it mean to transform policymaking?
• Introducing a ‘Government as a System’ toolkit
• Lab Long Read: Human-centred policy? Blending ‘big data’ and ‘thick data’ in national policy

Published 21 October 2021