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: https://lnkd.in/em9cw37G Please contact team@policylab.gov.uk to find out more. Words by Kyna Gourley and Isabelle Introna Pinny Grylls Sam Crane
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People-powered policymaking for UK government and beyond
About us
We believe that people-centred approaches and experimentation transform policymaking and outcomes for citizens. Policy Lab is a multidisciplinary team working openly and collaboratively across the UK government and beyond. Sitting on the edge of government, we draw experience from diverse professions, communities and experiences into all our work, combining expertise from policy, design, ethnography, systems thinking, futures and art.
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Employees at Policy Lab UK
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Kyna Gourley
Photographer, Filmmaker, Ethnographer and Head of Ethnography at the UK’s Policy Lab
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Alice-Marie Archer
Multidisciplinary Practitioner
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Pervez Khan
Filmmaker / Head of Channel 4 MA in Investigative Journalism / Media Trainer / Ethnographer
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Diya Mitra (Assoc. CIPD)
Studio Manager, Policy Lab, & Korean cultural writer and literature reviewer
Updates
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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. https://lnkd.in/g2a5nNzW Stephen Bennett, Catherine Howe, Everyone Here, Miriam Levin
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Policy Lab has been working at the forefront of people-centred and participatory methods for 10 years - bringing new evidence, understanding and empathy to policy. In our latest blog we show a spectrum of these methods, speculatively map them against the policy cycle and reflect on how they can be used by policy professionals. You can read more here: shorturl.at/352w3 and sign up for our event with Demos exploring themes of creativity and participation in policy on 25th Nov: https://shorturl.at/c2Vll Stephen Bennett Dr. Camilla Buchanan Neha Sharma Catherine Day Andrew Knight Policy Profession Tamara Finkelstein Catherine Howe
People-centred and participatory policymaking
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📢 New event! 📢 Join Demos' Collaborative Democracy Network as we sit down with policymakers, artists, and civil society to explore creative ways to make government more approachable, engaging, and inclusive. Our exciting line up of speakers features: ➡ Tamara Finkelstein, Permanent Secretary, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs and Head of Policy Profession ➡ Catherine Howe, Chief Executive, Adur and Worthing Councils ➡ Yara El-Sherbini, one half of pioneering social practice artist duo YARA + DAVINA ➡ Kieran Sheehan , Co-Director, Everyone Here ➡ Miriam Levin, Director of Participatory Programmes, Demos (Chair) 📆 25 November, 6:00pm 📺 In person and online 👉 https://lnkd.in/emQCVVzb This event is supported by Policy Lab UK.
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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
A role for the creative sector in protecting environmental sites
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We're recruiting designers at Policy Lab - please do share on :)
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 Designer
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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 Designer
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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
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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
Our exciting international speaker line-up is now confirmed for our book launch! Design for dementia, mental health and wellbeing: Co-design, Interventions and Policy: Join Our Book Launch Event! 📅 Wed, 25 Sept ⏰ 17:30 - 19:00 BST 📍 Online Event: https://lnkd.in/eZHcF-pw 💬 What's Happening? Introduction by the editors and author contributions from around the world, featuring insights into co-designing interventions to improve mental health. Panel discussion & Q&A chaired by Dr Anna Bergqvist, diving into the role of design in health and care contexts. Speakers and Panelists: Panel chair: Dr Anna Berqvist, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Series editor: Professor Rachel Cooper OBE, Imagination Lancaster, UK Book Editors: Professor Kristina Niedderer, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Professor Geke Ludden, University of Twente, The Netherlands Professor Tom Dening, Nottingham University, UK Professor Vjera Holthoff, Carl Gustav Carus Medizinische Fakultät, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Contributors: Dr Rachel Losada and Rosa Almeida, INTRAS, Spain Dr Leigh-Anne Hepburn, University of Sydney, Australia Dr Laura Malinin, Nancy Richardson Design Center, Colorado State University, USA Dr Jodi Sturge, University of Twente, The Netherlands Dr Christian Wölfel, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Dr Andy Bell, Centre for Mental Health Dr Camilla Buchanan, PolicyLab, UK Dr Elena Bellini, Duit, Italy
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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