Pro. Devt. workshop: Policy Communications

Policy Communications Clinic

Run by the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI), in collaboration with the Knowledge Exchange Unit
(Read more at democracy.ubc.ca/cpcc)

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About the Workshop

Professor Heidi Tworek and KJ Sharan will lead a 90-minute hyrbid workshop on the different strategies of policy communication and how to use communication as an advocacy tool. We will work on communicating your research to a diverse set of policy audiences. We will discuss how to create and disseminate effective, inclusive, and powerful policy products. And hopefully make policy communications more approachable! The workshop is open to students, faculty, and staff at UBC. This workshop will focus on policy communications for research in the humanities or social sciences. A separate workshop will be held for the ‘sciences’ and more details can be found here.

This is the first workshop in the Policy Communications Workshop series run by the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at UBC, in partnership with the Knowledge Exchange Unit, VPRI.

Topics will include:

• Purpose of policy communication
• Identifying your audience
• Finding the right policy product
• Framing and creativity
• Formatting and design
• Writing tips

CSDI Policy Communications Workshop Series

Policy intersects with almost every academic field. Many research or knowledge products can effect greater change if they are also communicated to non-academic audiences in the policy world. CSDI will manage and conduct an integrated series of six workshops across UBC to help students, faculty, and staff communicate their research effectively to stakeholders for policy change.

Do you ask yourself any of the following questions as a member of the academic community at UBC?

• How can my research create impact in the real world?
• My research is so technical. How will I communicate to important stakeholders and decision-makers, including the general public, so that it is used constructively?
• How can I include policy communication in my grants?
• What are the best policy communications vehicles to reach people?
• Who can help me to write new genres and format them attractively?

If YES, then the CSDI Policy Communications Workshop series is for you! The policy communications workshop series is a component of the CSDI Policy Communications Consulting Clinic (CPCC).

What is CPCC?

The CSDI Policy Communications Clinic is a service for the policy communications and policy impact needs of students, staff, and faculty at UBC. CPCC offers workshops and individualized consulting hours to help develop policy communications products.

Read more about CPCC here.

About the Organizers

What is CSDI?

The Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) is part of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). It aims to advance interdisciplinary publicly-engaged research, teaching, and dissemination of knowledge about innovation in democratic practice and institutions. CSDI leads and participates in projects at the local (BC), national (Canada), and international levels.

Our interdisciplinary work seeks to:

• Understand the past;
• Analyze the present;
• Train for the future.

Read more about CSDI here.

What is the Knowledge Exchange unit?

The UBC Knowledge Exchange team is part of the UBC Innovation Hub in the Vice President’s Office for Research and Innovation. We aim to build capacity among researchers, students and staff across disciplines to develop and share impactful knowledge through connections and exchange with communities, government, not-for-profit organizations and the general public.