How can fiction and poetry be utilized by activists and policy makers to critically assess and improve policy processes and outcomes?

尽管政策参与的过程最近得到了迅速而显著的发展，但决策者仍然被那些很少遇到英国人面临的问题的人所主导。这减少了政治参与，增加了对领导人的不信任，并可能导致无效和不可持续的政策解决方案。小说和诗歌目前在政策参与领域未得到充分利用，仅仅被用作政治宣传的工具，而它也可以用来将人们聚集在一起，了解生活经验，并本身成为政策制定者获得进一步见解的有力证据基础，以便实施更有效的解决方案。本研究将探索并提供实用的建议，以回答以下问题：1)活动家（灭绝叛乱，交叉环保主义者）和政策制定者如何利用小说和诗歌来批判性地评估和改进政策过程和结果？2)小说和诗歌如何被用来连接政策和活动家的代理人，以更好地参与公共政策？2)小说和诗歌对塑造个人和集体对关键社会和环境问题的态度有什么影响？这如何影响政策代理人和活动家的政治行为？在批判性地评估活动家组织和政策制定者的立场和观点时，我们可以利用小说和诗歌，以一种允许促进批判空间的方式来挑战个人和集体的态度，进一步扩展小说和诗歌在政治中的功能，以产生更有效，可实施和可持续的政策解决方案。

Though the processes of policy engagement have recently rapidly and significantly developed, decisiontables are still dominated by those who rarely live the problems people in the UK face. This decreasespolitical engagement, increases mistrust in leaders, and can potentially lead to ineffective andunsustainable policy solutions. Fiction and poetry is currently under-utilised within the policy engagementworld, and merely used as a tool of political propaganda, when it can also be used to bring peopletogether, understand lived experiences, and be itself a powerful evidence base for policy makers to gainfurther insight in order to implement more effective solutions. This research will explore and providepractical recommendations to answering:1) How can fiction and poetry be utilized by activists (Extinction Rebellion, The IntersectionalEnvironmentalist) and policy makers to critically assess and improve policy processes and outcomes?2) How can fiction and poetry be used to connect policy and activist agents for better public policyengagement?2) What impact can/does fiction and poetry have on shaping individual and collective attitudes to keysocial and environmental issues, and how does this influence political behaviour in policy agents andactivists?In critically evaluating the standpoints and perspectives of both activist(s) organisations and policyagents, we can utilise fiction and poetry in a way that allows for the facilitation of a critical space tochallenge individual and collective attitudes, further extending fiction and poetry's function in politics togenerate more effective, implementable and sustainable policy solutions.