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Our services

We provide a wide range of services to support officials

We provide a consultancy service for officials who want to get outside expertise and insight into policymaking.

We are part of government so we’re easy to commission, and as experienced officials ourselves, we understand what kind of analysis and advice our colleagues need.

We can provide:

  • Policy analysis and advice: our team of experienced officials deliver 20-30 policy projects per year for government clients
  • Evaluation: we’ve recently set up a new evaluation service to provide colleagues with more specialist advice and support in this important area
  • Expert engagement: we organise online and in person events to bring officials together with academics and other experts
  • Innovation: collaborating with academics and others, we experiment with new products and services that we think might be of useful to government
  • University partnerships: we work closely with our university partners, involving them in our policy work where appropriate and delivering training and advice to their academics and students
  • Policy training: we deliver policy training to non-partner universities

Examples of our services include running workshops with academics and policy makers on specific policy problems; setting up expert panels to inform policy thinking; running seminar series to share insights and ideas; producing both summary and deep dive reports on a topic; and working with experts to produce think pieces to draw out the policy implications of an idea.

We also broker research collaborations between academics and officials to address agreed policy questions where applied research would be valuable.

Learn more about the process for commissioning us here

Get in touch at enquiries@openinnovation.gov.uk

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Published 23 September 2021

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