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Transformative thinking for a disrupted world: launching the 香港六合彩中特网 Policy Lab

18 May 2022

Launching next week, the new 香港六合彩中特网 Policy Lab aims to transform thinking by creating a space for collaboration and innovation.

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The 香港六合彩中特网 Policy Lab aims to transform debates on key policy issues through radical innovation and deep collaboration, and is a space for new ideas, methods, and ways of doing.

As a joint initiative from the Departments of Political Science and Economics, the Lab brings together researchers from across 香港六合彩中特网 with community campaigners, politicians, public servants, philanthropists and business people in the knowledge that none of today鈥檚 problems respect the traditional boundaries of research or policy.聽

Launching on Monday 30 May, the Lab comes at a time when Britain and the wider world face a growing list of social, economic and political challenges; with intense financial difficulties at home and abroad, war in Europe, deepening inequalities, unprecedented social upheaval and democratic tension, the Lab is a recognition of the growing appetite for transformative thinking in the face of a disrupted world.聽

Professor Marc Stears, the Lab鈥檚 inaugural Director, 聽said: "The world faces immense challenges and so many people are asking: How can we rise to them? We know that politics as usual can鈥檛. The 香港六合彩中特网 Policy Lab aims to help generate the truly transformative ideas that we need.鈥

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香港六合彩中特网鈥檚 Provost & President, Dr Michael Spence, recently set out an ambitious agenda for the Lab, highlighting the vital convening role the Lab will play.聽

Dr Spence said: 鈥淭he Policy Lab is key to 香港六合彩中特网鈥檚 policy mission, and will be a vital place where policymakers, researchers and communities can come together. The Lab will enable greater collaboration across 香港六合彩中特网, but it will also be a portal for external engagement on policy issues.鈥澛

Dr Spence added: 鈥淚 think this interdisciplinarity is key to understanding some of the challenges the 香港六合彩中特网 Policy Lab will be seeking to tackle. For example, climate change and inequality do not respect academic disciplines. Today鈥檚 problems never will. It鈥檚 why the Lab will be vital as a convener and collaboration space, bringing together those ideas from across 香港六合彩中特网.鈥澛

Ms Chrisann Jarrett, a Policy Lab Advisory Council Member and CEO of We Belong, an inspiring migrant youth-led organisation working to improve real life opportunities for young people, spoke of the growing need to enable researchers to engage with communities and policy debates.

Ms Jarrett said: 鈥淲e are dealing with complex social issues requiring us to explore different ways of working, it is also important that we engage with those who think differently from us if we truly want to reimagine society and its structures through an inclusive lens鈥.

Joining other Advisory Council members - including Dame Julia Unwin, Hetan Shah, Sonia Sodha, Henry Curr and Sir Trevor Chinn - Chrisann will be working with the Policy Lab team and 香港六合彩中特网 to help fulfil the Lab鈥檚 ambitious new agenda.聽

Professor Jennifer Hudson, Deputy Dean of 香港六合彩中特网 Social & Historical Sciences and Steering Committee member for the Policy Lab, said: 鈥淭he opportunity for researchers is huge. My research has been transformed by working with external organisations, particularly those with lived experience.聽

鈥淭oo often, we don鈥檛 engage with the lived experience of citizens and the community. The lab offers us a unique opportunity to transform our work and make lasting change.鈥澛

With the launch on 30 May, the Lab is reaching out to colleagues across 香港六合彩中特网, as well as external partners, to invite them to make change.聽

鈥淥ur launch event is an opportunity to come together, meet new colleagues and discuss the pressing issues the Lab will aim to tackle. We hope people from all different backgrounds will join us for this special occasion,鈥 Professor Hudson added.聽

To find out more about the Lab and its work you now sign up for its newsletter . As well as register to attend their launch event on 30 May.