Playing with Purpose: Serious Games as Tools for Better Policy Design and Evaluation

Readings: 

• Serious games for evaluation

• Adaptive and interactive climate futures: systematic review of ‘serious games’ for engagement and decision-making

• (opens in a new window)Introducing RegBox: using serious games in regulatory development

Implementation-minded policy making: how can successful implementation be designed into policy work?

Readings: 

• (opens in a new window)Implementation-Minded Policy Making
• (opens in a new window)Understanding the implementation of evidence-informed policies and practices from a policy perspective: a critical interpretive synthesis
• Policy failure and the policy-implementation gap: can policy support programs help?

Beyond the Hype: Promises, Pitfalls, and Illusions of AI in Policymaking

Readings: 

• (opens in a new window)Complexity Economics and Sustainable Development
• (opens in a new window)Government Expenditure and Sustainable Development Prioritization: Lessons from the Policy Priority Inference Research Programme
• (opens in a new window)Could AI help assess housing need and deliver more social homes?
• (opens in a new window)Beyond 0.7%: measuring ODA effectiveness

What works to promote research-policy engagement

Readings:

• (opens in a new window)What works to promote research-policy engagement?
• (opens in a new window)Common stages in the ARI process
• (opens in a new window)ARIs as a mechanism to improve evidence-policy connections
• (opens in a new window)Working with ARIs
• (opens in a new window)Making the most of the Areas of Research Interest

Engaging citizens in governance: the promise and perils of co-creation platforms

Readings: 

• (opens in a new window)Transforming the Public Sector Into an Arena for Co-Creation: Barriers, Drivers, Benefits, and Ways Forward
• (opens in a new window)Can the power of platforms be harnessed for governance?

Failure and Learning in Policy Innovation

Readings: 

• (opens in a new window)Public Value Management and New Public Governance: Key Traits, Issues and Developments ( In The Palgrave handbook of public administration and management in Europe, pp. 967-990)
• (opens in a new window)Why policy failure is a prerequisite for innovation in the public sector.
• (opens in a new window)Parallel learning loops in collaborative innovation: Insights from digital government.