People-Centred Policy Design
Learn how to implement innovative methods that put diverse people and their lived experience at the heart of public policy.
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How it works
People-Centred Policy Design
Discover policymaking techniques to bring user voices to policies
To help better understand your users and design policies that deliver greater value, it is essential you are able to listen to and apply user voices to your work.
On this five-week course, developed by the UK Civil Service Policy Profession and Policy Lab, you’ll learn how to use innovative techniques to ensure users are at the centre of your new policies. With this knowledge, you can maximise the impact of your work.
Each method is laid out alongside real-life case studies to help you gain practical skills to apply to your context. By the end, you’ll know how to design policies from the viewpoints of those affected by them.
Gain an understanding of ethnography
An ethnographic film, similar to a documentary, aims to highlight people’s lived experience in their own environment.
On this course, you’ll explore the importance of film ethnography in telling the stories of diverse people and how you can use it to improve your work.
Next, you’ll unpack co-design to ensure your policies follow a collaborative approach. With this knowledge, you’ll be able to minimise risks during policy implementation, develop trust, and build community engagement.
Unpack speculative design and serious games
Speculative design allows you to take into account new perspectives. On the course, you’ll learn how to use speculative design to help better understand your users.
You’ll also discover how game elements can be combined with learning strategies to teach skills and attitudes. This understanding will help you use serious games to improve your policymaking.
Take your next steps in people-centred public policy
With guidance and support from policymakers, you’ll finish the course with the knowledge to help you understand people better, design policies creatively, and deliver greater public value.
Syllabus
Week 1
Introduction
Course Introduction and Context
In the first week, we will introduce ourselves and provide you with some context about the course.
Week 2
Film ethnography
What is film ethnography?
This first section of the course will introduce you to ethnography as an innovative new method for policymaking, allowing you to add new depth and integrity to your evidence base and minimising your own biases.
Why film ethnography?
In this section you will learn more about the theory of ethnography and its value for policy making.
Getting started with ethnography
We will explore in this section how to get started with Ethnography.
Summary and next steps
Here we have touched upon the basics, but there is fantastic material out there to get involved in Ethnography beyond this course.
Week 3
Co-design
What is co-design
This section is about the co-design methodology.
Why Co-design?
Here we will discuss, why you would choose to work with co-design.
Getting started with co-design
In this section we will explain how you can work with co-design in your own work.
Summary and next steps
Reflecting on how you can take a co-design approach in your own work
Week 4
Speculative design and serious games
What are speculative design and serious games?
In this section you will learn how speculative design and serious games work together through the story of a project about the future of the maritime sector and the advent of autonomous shipping.
Why use speculative design and serious games?
Now that you have an understanding of speculative design and serious games, next we’ll look at ways that adopting these methods in your work can lead to more resilient policy making.
Getting started with Speculative design and serious games
In this section we cover how you can get started with Futures Thinking in your own work.
Summary and next steps
A look back at what you have learnt in Week 4, and a look forward to how you can implement speculative design and serious games in your work.
Week 5
What next?
Reflections on people-centred policy innovation
In this final week you will reflect on what you have learnt, and how how can start to implement the featured methods in your work as a policy maker
When would you like to start?
Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.
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Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Explore more about innovative methods that help you understand people better, design policies creatively and deliver greater public value. We describe three such methods in detail and highlight others like them
- Explore what it feels like to try out these methods. You’ll hear from policy makers and members of the public who participated in the actual examples
- Investigate how you could implement these innovative people-centred methods in your role as a policy maker. You should get a sense of the tools, skills and other requirements for incorporating such methods in your work, as well as the benefits in trying t
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for policy professionals who are concerned with the design, delivery, and evaluation of policy.
Who developed the course?
Government Campus
Government Campus is dedicated to building the knowledge, skills and networks of civil servants across the UK.
Policy Profession
The Policy Profession designs, develops and proposes appropriate courses of action to help meet key government priorities and ministerial objectives.
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- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Digital certificate when you're eligible
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$134/one-off payment
Fulfill your current learning need
- Access to this course
- Learn at your own pace
- Discuss your learning in comments
- Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible
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Sample the course materials
- Access expires 1 Jun 2024
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