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Course Description

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This course will help you navigate the complex and ethical challenges of working with policy to make meaningful and far-reaching impact. Learn informing and influencing strategies and the different roles you can play in policy networks to give voice to those who are rarely heard in the corridors of power. You will have the opportunity to debate and consider your own ethical boundaries, so you can gain the confidence you need to engage with policy safely, responsibly and effectively. As part of the session you will receive a discount code for The Researcher’s Guide to Influencing Policy. ​

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Key benefits:

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• Discover quick and easy tools you can use immediately to:

  • Prioritise which policy actors to engage with first and how to instantly get their attention

  • Create a powerful impact plan that will guarantee your research makes a difference without wasting your time

• Learn how to get your research into policy, wherever you work in the world 

• Discover time-saving tools to identify who to engage with, so you can plan policy impacts more effectively and efficiently

• Discuss how to design an effective policy brief, infographic or policy slide-deck

• Full day courses only: create your own policy product for feedback

• Full day courses only: Learn how to co-produce and use policy products effectively to drive impact

• Full day courses only: Learn how to pitch evidence in presentations to influence policy

• Full day courses only: Learn how to evidence policy impacts

• Be inspired and challenged by case studies and thought-provoking discussion points

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At the end of the workshop:

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• Receive slides and links to free resources to help you embed impact in your research

• You are invited to an optional free follow-up programme over five weeks, so you can apply what you have learned. You can work through these steps yourself from the handbook, but by signing up to take these steps online, you get access to extra material. Each step consists of a 6 minute video with accompanying text and tasks.

• Prof Reed is available to answer questions from participants via email after the course.​

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Preparation for the day

Choose (only) one policy product to read and critique before the training. You can choose a policy brief, an infographic or a presentation (note that presentations consist of both a PowerPoint file and a notes file in Word with the same title and one has a video of the slides being presented). You will be asked to discuss the product you chose in small groups, explaining what you liked or disliked about it, and why.

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Choose the policy product you want to review from one of the three folders via this link.

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