Strategic networking with policy makers

Event information:

A one day workshop for Principal Investigators and Experienced Researchers provided by the Institute for Government.

A one-day workshop provided by the Institute for Government.

A fast-paced, informative and practical day which will allow you to share your experience, and work individually and with colleagues to inform your future research and impact strategy. 

Key objectives:

• Improve your understanding of the current governmental landscape
• Map stakeholders and learn how to build networks more effectively 
• Learn more about how policy making works in practice
• Explore policy making from the perspective of the Civil Service 
• Learn how to best engage with select committees

Indicative programme

Presenters

Dr Catherine Haddon

Catherine is the Institute’s resident historian, leading its work on the history of Whitehall and the reform and management of change in government.

Before joining the Institute, Catherine was a lecturer on security and intelligence history; taught contemporary British history; and worked as a historian and researcher, contributing to various publications for the Cabinet War Rooms’ Churchill Museum and for media outlets.

Catherine is very interested in improving the way in which academics engage with policy and government. She has brought a historical angle to the Institute’s commentary and our work on more effective government. 

She advises and gives evidence to parliamentary select committees. She has featured on radio and at party conferences; is an experienced panellist; and is regularly cited in the press. Her articles have appeared in various publications, including Civil Service World and Total Politics.

Katie Thorpe

Katie Thorpe is a learning and development consultant working in both public and private sectors, and is currently the Institute’s Learning and Development Advisor.

She is responsible for the Engaging with Government programme for Early Career Researchers which is run annually on behalf of the AHRC and designs and delivers sessions on similar topics to a range of audiences.

Prior to starting her own business she spent 13 years at professional services firm Deloitte, training first as an auditor and then moving to the global learning group.

About the Institute for Government

The Institute for Government is an independent charity working to increase government effectiveness. We aim to promote efficient public administration of government and public service in the UK by providing programmes of education, training, research and study for the public benefit and on a non-party political basis.

We do this through undertaking original research, developing learning tools and resources, running events for exchange of ideas and providing practical advice for senior decision makers.

Learning and development on engaging with policy makers

One of our strands of work is on better policy making, including how evidence is used to inform the policy making process. We believe that policy is made most effectively when policy makers have access to expertise and evidence from across a range of disciplines.

We seek to help researchers, voluntary sector workers and other experts engage effectively with government by helping them understand how policy making in the UK really works, whom they should engage with and how they should go about it.

Registration

Please register by filling in this form, or contacting research-events@exeter.ac.uk