Crawford School strategic plan
Strategic Initiatives: Policy Impact
One of our main goals is to help frame and answer the key policy questions - to provide policy impact in Australia and in the Asia-Pacific region. This is achieved through providing high quality evidence-based research and coursework teaching and executive training programs, along with professional engagement in workshops, seminars, symposiums, lectures and short courses.
Strategic initiatives for policy impact include:
- Further develop and enhance the Policy Impact Committee at the Crawford School and create an Executive Policy Manager position. This committee will plan and coordinate all policy impact activities. The Executive Policy Manager will help coordinate and implement these activities and ensure a shared vision between the Policy Impact and Marketing and Outreach Committees and the Director's Office.
- Maintain and enhance the Crawford School Dialogue (formerly the Crawford Policy Forum). The purpose of the Crawford School Dialogue is to bring the Canberra policy community together in a series of interactive exchanges on key issues of the day, allowing expert speakers from the public service and other parts of the ANU to engage with Crawford School researchers on important, contemporary issues. The Crawford School Dialogue will also be supplemented by the Crawford School Roundtable, focusing on smaller groups in workshop format, with more concentrated discussion on specific policy topics.
- Maintain and enhance the Crawford School Seminar. The Crawford School Seminar provides a setting for general, non-technical presentations from ANU researchers, visiting fellows and local collaborators. It will also actively seek presentations from key government researchers, policymakers and community leaders.
- Maintain and enhance the Crawford School Oration, as a major opportunity to highlight outstanding contributors to public policy debates, relevant to the work of the Crawford School.
- Explore and implement avenues for the dissemination of policy-relevant Crawford School research to relevant policy audiences, and the development of new executive short courses.
- Map Crawford School expertise to major government policy concerns, including generating a Crawford School 'list of experts'.
- Actively pursue public policy 'internships' and other relationships with government agencies. Policy internships involve connections between the Crawford School and government researchers and policy makers (i.e., joint work on specific projects with senior researchers in the public service and tailored Executive training programs).
- Establish a 'Public Policy Meta-Network'. This will involve cooperation and connections with partner organisations working in policy areas in Australia and the Asia Pacific region and the establishment of a Crawford School policy journal and professional organization.
- Establish and develop a 'policy engagement database' for the Crawford School. This will involve centrally collecting and collating data on public policy engagement and impact.
- Prepare and distribute a Crawford School Quarterly Newsletter, with major 'policy briefs' included, and showcasing all school activities, major events, seminars, publications and policy impact.
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