Williamson, R.;
Stevenson, O.;
(2022)
Bringing adult learning principles to university–policy engagement training involving students and policy professionals.
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Abstract
Within the knowledge exchange literature, there is growing recognition of the role that students have in contributing to knowledge exchange through university-based programmes. To add to this growing, but embryonic, knowledge base, this paper brings together reflections of policy engagement facilitators delivering an optional, online policy training course at UCL (University College London) and the University of Manchester, UK. Known as the Policy Boot Camp, it involved fifty policy professionals, from the civil service, think tanks, local government and the third sector, and three hundred students from undergraduate and master’s degree courses. We reflect on how we drew on the principles of andragogy to create our knowledge exchange programme, so that it was problem-focused, student-led, and interactive and collaborative in nature. We discuss if an intervention such as this can be a route to support more collaborative and fluid policymaking processes. Although our conclusions from this small-scale programme are tentative, we sketch out directions for future research that could contribute to evidencing the potential benefits of courses such as this.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Bringing adult learning principles to university–policy engagement training involving students and policy professionals |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/rfa.06.1.21 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/RFA.06.1.21 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022, Reuben Williamson and Olivia Stevenson. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | knowledge exchange, andragogy, adult learning, academic policy engagement, public policy, students, curriculum co-design |
| UCL classification: | UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10157235 |
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