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This module provides the opportunity to combine theoretical knowledge from the programme with practical skills to tackle a real-world policy issue of your own choosing. It brings together all the theoretical and methodological training you have acquired over the course of your MSc in Public Policy: through a mixture of lectures and workshops you will learn to identify a policy issue, develop a proposal to address that issue, situate it within the relevant scholarly literature, and develop a strategy to maximise its appeal to stakeholders.

The assessments are designed to mimic the work of a policy analyst ‘in the field.’ The first assessment is about conducting the desk research necessary to establish the evidence base in support of the proposal: reviewing the extant literature on a particular policy domain and critically appraising studies. The first part of the second assessment is about designing an ‘action plan’ to see that proposal adopted: perhaps out-manoeuvring a given veto-player, or mobilising public opinion in support of the proposal. Finally, in the second part of the second assessment you will produce a piece of ‘creative writing’: a policy brief addressed to key stakeholders (such as bureaucrats, parliamentarians, or ministers); or a piece of policy communication for the public domain (an op-ed, a blog, a campaign speech).Ìý
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