Explore the opportunities and challenges that come with innovation and new technologies applicable to policymaking and the public sector.
8 weeks,
excluding orientation
7–10 hours per week,
self-paced learning online
Weekly modules,
flexible learning
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An understanding of how to innovate in the public policy space.
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The ability to face key challenges inherent in public policy innovations.
3
Knowledge of transparency mechanisms and how these can be leveraged in public policy formulation.
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Insight into big and open data, and how these can be used as a tool for public policy innovation.
Over the duration of this online certificate course, you’ll work through the following modules:
MODULE 1 Introduction: Problems and solutions in public policy
Explore key challenges that public policy innovations aim to address.
MODULE 2 Behavioural public policy
Learn how cognitive theories are used in public policy.
MODULE 3 Transparency in public policy
Discover how transparency mechanisms can be leveraged in public policy.
MODULE 4 Participation in public policy delivery
Discover how participation can impact policy delivery.
MODULE 5 Participation in public policy decision-making
Discover how participation and deliberation can impact public policy decision-making.
MODULE 6 Data in public policy
Learn how data can be used as a tool for public policy innovation.
MODULE 7 Artificial intelligence in public policy
Critically evaluate the promises and pitfalls of machine learning and its use in the public sector.
MODULE 8 Drivers of innovation and barriers to change
Critically examine the opportunities and challenges of different public policy innovations.
Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during course development.
Dr Daniel Berliner
Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Department of Government, LSE
Daniel joined the LSE Department of Government in 2017. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University, Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. He received his PhD at the University of Washington in 2012. His primary research focuses on the politics, implementation, and usage of transparency, accountability, and related institutional reforms around the world.
Martin Haus
PhD Student, Department of Government, LSE
Martin’s proposed PhD thesis is titled 'Mid-level bureaucratic dynamics and the quality of education provision: Evidence from India’s districts'. His research aims to answer whether control or trust and autonomy are conducive to the quality of education by analysing panel data from hundreds of India’s districts. His research interests include bureaucracy, state capacity, education policy, and Indian politics.
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