Communities
Policy design community
The policy design community is a place where you can:
- meet, learn and work with other people who design policy or work in design, to develop your practice
- 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:
- sign up for the policy design mailing list to get the monthly newsletter - you’ll need to use your UK government email address
- join the policy design channel on the UK government Slack - again, you’ll need to use your UK government email address
- subscribe to the public policy design blog to receive new posts by email
Events and meetups
The community runs events to support its members across government. You will be invited to these events when you join. These events include:
- monthly meetups
- working groups
- speaker series about policy design
You can sign up for future events or watch recordings of past events.
Community resources
You may find these resources useful:
- public policy design blog
- Open Policy-Making Toolkit, to help guide your work
- Delivery Book, for making services and policy in challenging circumstances
Support for people who don’t work directly for government
You don’t have to be working in government to use these resources. Anyone can:
- read the public policy design blog and subscribe to receive new posts by email
- attend our public speaker series events and watch past events at our events library and subscribe for event alerts on our events booking page
- stay in touch with us through our network on LinkedIn
- use the Open Policy-Making Toolkit to help guide their work
- use the Delivery Book for making services and policy in challenging circumstances
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Guidance first published