Co-designing an evaluation framework for design in the context of policy

作为内阁府政策实验室试点的一部分，该项目将把政策实验室的倡议固定在一个得到学术研究支持并与其主要利益攸关方共同设计的强有力的评估框架内。这一框架将使实验室能够评估和分析其设计方法对制定和执行政策的影响。它将以对现有文献的彻底审查为基础，以既定的研究结果和方法为基础进行实验室的评估。政策实验室是由英国公务员制度下的内阁办公室于2014年4月设立的。它旨在通过由政府部门资助该实验室的项目，将设计方法引入中央政府的政策制定中进行试验。由经验丰富的设计师Andrea Siodmok博士领导，这是一个为期一年的试点项目，将使用基于政策目标的数据分析和新的数字工具，围绕人们的体验设计服务。政策实验室在其他地方复制了类似的活动，特别是在丹麦，丹麦在10年前成立了一个跨部委的创新部门MindLab，以及内斯塔的公共创新实验室和澳大利亚社会创新中心。目前关于这些倡议的现有文献大多属于报告、会议和博客文章；关于在中央政府的政策制定中使用设计方法的学术文章相对较少。这个项目将结合现有的政策设计文献和设计研究、参与式设计、政策和管理研究的相关学术研究，对这一新兴领域进行彻底的审查。受此审查的启发，研究员将与政策实验室及其利益相关者(包括政府部门)合作，共同设计、迭代和实施一个框架，以评估政策实验室试点年的成功。该框架将着眼于在政策的制定和执行中使用研究方法如何有助于更好、更相关、更顺利地实施政策。将在mappingSocial alDesign.org上建立一个公共博客，让相关利益攸关方在项目接近尾声时对其调查结果进行反思。最后，将出版一份针对政策背景下的从业人员和管理人员的报告，介绍该框架及其对将设计方法纳入政策制定和执行的影响。

Part of the Cabinet Office's Policy Lab pilot, this project will anchor the Policy Lab's initiative within a strong evaluative framework supported by academic research and co-designed with its major stakeholders. This framework will enable the Lab to evaluate and analyse the impact its design approach has on developing and implementing policy. It will be underpinned by a thorough review of existing literature to ground the Lab's evaluation in established research findings and methods.The Policy Lab was set up in April 2014 by the Cabinet Office, part of the UK Civil Service. It aims to experiment with bringing design approaches to policy-making in central government by undertaking projects with government departments funding the lab. Led by experienced designer Dr Andrea Siodmok, this is a one-year pilot project that will design services around people's experiences, using data analytics and new digital tools based on policy goals. The Policy Lab replicates similar activities elsewhere notably in Denmark, which set up a cross-ministerial innovation unit MindLab a decade ago, as well as Nesta's Public Innovation Lab and The Australian Centre for Social Innovation. Most of the existing literature on these initiatives currently belong in reports, conferences, and blog posts; there is comparatively little academic writing about using design approaches in policy making in central government. This project will combine the existing literature on design in policy with related academic research in design studies, participatory design, policy and management research to provide a thorough review of this emerging field.Informed by this review, the Fellow will work with the Policy Lab and its stakeholders (including government departments) to co-design, iterate and implement a framework to evaluate the success of the Policy Lab's pilot year. The framework will look at how using research methods in the development and implementation of policy makes for better, more relevant, more smoothly implemented policy. A public blog will be set up on mappingsocialdesign.org to inform audience for relevant stakeholders towards the end of the project to reflect on its findings. Finally, a report aimed at practitioners and managers in policy contexts will be published about the framework and its implications for bringing design approaches into policy-making and delivery.