Martin King, CAPE Collaboration Fund awardee, discusses his project in collaboration with the North of Tyne Combined Authority, now North East Combined Authority, to explore the benefits and challenges of civic technology to facilitate participation in policy making.
If you’re intending on attending party conferences in the Autumn, see this blog from CAPE Tim Hutchings where he goes through some practical considerations on how to go into it.
To tackle career limiting decisions and stereotyping amongst children and young people, CAPE Collaboration Fund awardee Carol Davenport worked with the North East Local Enterprise Partnership. Together they developed a policy briefing aiming to influence education policy to support young people to make appropriately informed career choices.
Have you ever thought that playing cards could help your policy engagement? Academics from one of our CAPE projects have been working on just that, developing a set of policy engagement cards as part of the “Cardographer project”.
Barry Coughlan, University of Cambridge, explores how working with their policy partner, the National Children’s Bureau, helped ensure that policy and practice messages were informed by those with lived experience when researching outcomes for children who have experienced adversity.
Case study from CAPE partner Northumbria who worked with Carnegie UK to develop a guide on roundtable approaches to building effective societal wellbeing frameworks.
Sheena Cruickshank details how her team in Manchester worked with local residents to explore barriers to active travel and develop solutions to encourage the take up of active travel, and reflects on what they learnt about co-produced community engagement.
We share four systems thinking tools that academics at CAPE universities have been using in collaboration with health policy officials to support work on NHS waiting time recovery.
David Frayne, author of The Refusal of Work, discusses how decision makers from a range of political parties at the Welsh Senedd and Westminster as well as the Trade Union Congress Wales received the results of a pilot study on the four day working week.
Vicky Kemp and her research team at the University of Nottingham reflect on how they used their extensive electronic police custody records dataset in a collaboration with the Ministry of Justice.
Caglar Koksal explores how his CAPE project with Manchester City Council (MCC) has informed the development of the emerging policy around Manchester’s own Local Urban Design Guides and Codes.
CAPE policy fellow Laura Koch highlights how exposure to new settings and perspectives as part of the experience has influenced her own approach to policymaking.
