Formulating policy recommendations

NatCen Learning

This one day course enables participants to understand how their research can inform policy and to acquire tools and techniques for drawing policy recommendations from their research findings and conclusions.

Course outline
Research and Policy:

Presentation: and discussion on the relation between research and policy
Exercise: critiquing examples of policy research recommendations.

Understanding your policy domain:

Presentation: and discussion about policy domains
Exercise: understanding policy domains

How research can help policy development:

Presentation: Varieties of research and their value for policy
Exercise: analysing what your research offers

Getting your research to yield policy advice:

Presentation: how research design and management can help move beyond conclusions to recommendations
Exercise: using research design/management to help yield policy advice

Expressing policy recommendations:

Presentation: Choosing language to suit topic and audience
Exercise: Revising existing policy recommendations

Who is it aimed at?
This is an intermediate level course, which assumes a general familiarity with qualitative or quantitative research methods. But you don't need to have experience of using these methods.

Cost and booking
The full price of this course is £350.

Book this course and Communicating research to policy and practice together and receive a discount.

We offer discount to students, academics and those working in the voluntary sector.