How will we shape the future to produce better outcomes for society? What can the government do to bring about positive long-term change?

Navigating complex and uncertain policy challenges and advancing effective policy solutions now and into the future requires new ways of thinking and working. Fundamental to strategic policy development are concepts and practices around systems and futures thinking and the application of behavioural science.

This course will provide you with an overview of conceptual and theoretical insights from a range of disciplines and practices. It will highlight contemporary debates on how to tackle ‘wicked’ problems, reveal insights from the application of behavioural science to public policy from around the world, and be grounded in a long history of public policy scholarship. Throughout the course you will be encouraged to apply critical thinking to policy models and concepts and so be able to draw from them in different contexts.    

A range of practical approaches and tools will be explored which will help your policy work be future oriented, strategically well-considered and leverage evidence of ‘real’ human behaviour.

For Terms and Conditions refer to the open enrolment section here.