The Policy Lab is the UK government's policy design lab that brings together different expertise to improve and professionalize policymaking through creative techniques like design-based thinking and ethnography. The lab serves as a test ground for new ideas and approaches to policy problems through activities like Lab Lights which convene experts, and Lab projects which build evidence and tools for policymakers.

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Policy Lab
Cabinet Office
20th May 2014

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Profession
Open Policy
Making
Policy Lab

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PolicyLab
Is the UK
government’s policy
design lab
@PolicyLabUK

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We are a creative space where policy teams can draw on
techniques such as design-based thinking and
ethnography to approach policy problems in a new ways.

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We bring together different expertise to improve and
professionalise policymaking.

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Lab

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13. Insights through ethnography

14. User journey mapping

15. Data visualisation

16. Experience prototyping

17. Re-imagining policing

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Lab Light – bring together policy makers and world
class experts to try out techniques and develop ideas
in a short but intensive gathering.
Lab projects – A test ground for new thinking.
Demonstration projects that build evidence and tools
for policy making.