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Policy Impact Program
The Winston Churchill
Trust and the Centre
for Policy Futures
at the University
of Queensland
are partnering to
increase the impact of
outstanding Churchill
Fellows and their
findings through a new
Policy Impact Program.
The Policy Impact Program (PIP) is
a partnership designed to identify,
curate and advocate a selection of
ideas from Churchill Fellows that have
the potential to shape best practice
and policy reform on a variety of
relevant and contemporary issues
facing Australia.
A collaboration between The
Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and
the Centre for Policy Futures at the
University of Queensland (UQ), the
program will bring together the two
organisations’ strengths to deliver a
flagship annual publication – Policy
Futures: A Reform Agenda, its debut
issue to be published in late 2020.
The UQ Centre for Policy Futures
undertakes robust, rigorous
and applied research to help
governments meet the policy
challenges of tomorrow, today.
In doing so, the Centre draws on
the University of Queensland’s
considerable expertise across
the natural, technical and social
sciences and humanities, and
works in close partnership with subnational and national governments,
industry partners, non-government
organisations and other research
institutes.
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Policy training
PIP Fellows will be provided with
opportunities to develop their skills in
policy and governance, identify and
engage with relevant government
leaders, extend their networks, and
learn how to improve the contextspecificity of their findings. This will
include participating in a two-day
training workshop provided by UQ
– Getting Research into Policy and
Practice (GRiPP).
The GRiPP workshop is designed
to provide participants with an
understanding of Australia’s federal
system, the respective roles of
different levels of governments and
insights into what shapes domestic
agenda setting and policy making.
Participants will also gain insight into
the formal and informal mechanisms
by which they can connect and
incorporate their research, expertise
and evidence into policy and
program development.
A research article published in
‘Policy Futures: A Reform Agenda’.
PIP Fellows will work closely with
leading policy experts to develop
their policy ideas into an article to
be included in the Policy Futures:
A Reform Agenda.