Dutch courage: lessons on policy-making from the Netherlands

...about new approaches if we only focus on the evidence. The conference was a valuable opportunity to exchange ideas. It was encouraging to hear Dutch officials praising the UK’s use...
...about new approaches if we only focus on the evidence. The conference was a valuable opportunity to exchange ideas. It was encouraging to hear Dutch officials praising the UK’s use...
As regular readers will know, the Open Innovation Team works with academics and other experts to help generate analysis and ideas for policy. We recently refreshed the slides we use...
...our use of PhD students. We discovered last year that many PhD students have funding to work with us on placements of 3 to 6 months, so we’ve been inviting...
...Colleagues from across Whitehall, and sometimes further afield, approach us requesting support on projects where they think academic insight might be useful. We’ll do some scoping and, if we decide...
...biased outcomes and recommendations, either because the data used to train them may reflect historical biases, or because they may detect patterns that we would consider discriminatory, for example by...
...and use of data produced as a by-product of our interactions with media environments, means we are analysed by advertisers and organisations to a far greater extent than ever before....
...and refine the tools we use to weave academic insight into policy discussions (e.g. through various kinds of events, slide packs, think pieces and literature reviews). Raising our profile: during...
...to encourage more of my sort, mainly because they think it will increase innovation. They actually call us “positive deviants”, presumably to make it sound just a little less awkward....
...Defra are excited to use the work I did for them both internally and with other departments such as BEIS or HMT, so I feel like I have contributed to...
...new action plan will include some online elements. How government engages citizens online Governments use of the internet to engage citizens has mostly been centered around: Service delivery e.g. applying...