Ideas for a Better World: Leading Change Through Policymaking (FutureLearn)

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Ideas for a Better World: Leading Change Through Policymaking (FutureLearn)

Learn about policymaking and leadership from experts and inspirational leaders, and create your own policy action plan. Become a leader and start making a difference in the world through policymaking
Policy change can affect billions of lives. What if you could create policies to enhance societies, transform lives and change the impact we have on the world?

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On this course you will build knowledge and awareness about policymaking and leadership.
You will learn from global policy experts and hear innovative perspectives from policy leaders creating change all around the world. Listen to guest speakers from the United Nations, UK House of Lords, and The Elders, and learn to create your own policy action plan.

Syllabus

Week 1: Transforming your passion into policy
Week 2: Insight and evidence
Week 3: Collaborating and influencing
Week 4: Creating your policy action plan

Learning on this course
You can take this self-guided course and learn at your own pace. On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Identify the passion which drives your ambition to shape policy change
  • Reflect on how your policy idea ties in to your wider purpose
  • Explore what policy is and how it can lead to change in wider society
  • Assess the importance of different types of evidence in creating policy
  • Identify who your stakeholders are and learn how to influence them effectively
  • Develop your confidence and skills around policy leadership
  • Design an action plan that will set your policy idea in motion

Who is the course for?
This course is aimed at people who see themselves as future leaders in the field of policymaking.

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