Policy Reports Workshop (Sciences)

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Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions

An 80-minute workshop on policy reports &amp; their use in policy communications, conducted by Dr. Allison Macfarlane and Kshitij (KJ) Sharan.

Room 120, C.K. Choi Building

<h3></h3><h3>A﻿bout the Workshop</h3><p>Professor Allison Macfarlane and Kshitij (KJ) Sharan will lead an 80-minute hybrid workshop on policy reports and their use in policy communications and advocacy. Policy reports are used as a resource by stakeholders including policy makers, bureaucrats, non-profit professionals, policy advocates, and academics. We will discuss how to create and disseminate effective, inclusive and powerful policy reports. <strong>The workshop is open to students, faculty, and staff at UBC. This workshop will focus on policy reports for research in the 'sciences'. A separate workshop will be held for the ‘humanities and social sciences’.</strong></p><p>This workshop is part of the Policy Communications Workshop series run by the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs at UBC, in partnership with the Knowledge Exchange Unit, VPRI.</p><p><strong>Topics will include:</strong></p><ul><li>Purpose of policy reports</li><li>Policy reports vs academic articles</li><li>Structure of policy reports</li><li>Formatting and design</li><li>Writing tips</li></ul><p><strong>T﻿he Zoom link for those who registered online and workshop resources will be sent to the email address provided 1-2 days before the workshop.</strong></p><h3></h3><h3>S﻿peaker Bios</h3><p></p><p><em><strong>D﻿r. Allison Macfarlane</strong></em></p><p>Dr. Allison M. Macfarlane is Professor and Director of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs within the Faculty of Arts at UBC. Dr. Macfarlane has held both academic and government positions in the field of energy and environmental policy, especially nuclear policy. Most recently, she directed the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy at the George Washington University. She recently held a fellowship at the Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC and was Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Applied Public Policy at Flinders University and Carnegie Mellon Adelaide in Australia.</p><p>The first geologist (and the third woman) to chair the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from 2012-2014, Dr. Macfarlane holds a doctorate in earth science from MIT and a bachelor’s of science from the University of Rochester. She has held fellowships at Radcliffe College, MIT, Stanford, and Harvard Universities, and she has been on the faculty at Georgia Tech in Earth Science and International Affairs, at George Mason University in Environmental Science and Policy, and in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.</p><p>From 2010 to 2012, Dr. Macfarlane served on the White House Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future, created by the Obama Administration to recommend a new national policy on high-level nuclear waste. She has also served on National Academy of Sciences panels on nuclear energy and nuclear weapons issues, and she chaired the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the group that sets the Bulletin’s famous “doomsday clock.” In 2006, MIT Press published a book she co-edited, Uncertainty Underground: Yucca Mountain and the Nation’s High-Level Nuclear Waste. Dr. Macfarlane has published extensively in Science, Nature, Environmental Science and Technology, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, and other journals.</p><p></p><p><em><strong>K﻿shitij (KJ) Sharan</strong></em></p><p>Kshitij Sharan is the Strategy and Operations Lead at the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) at UBC. He has a Masters in Public Policy and Global Affairs from UBC and a BA in Economics and Political Science from McGill University. His work has ranged across sectors of education, water and sanitation, menstrual hygiene, gender equity, child protection and social entrepreneurship. He has been a founding member of medium to large scale non-profits and social enterprises in India, which has allowed him to engage deeply with decision-makers including ministers, parliamentarians, CEOs and communities. He was a founding member of one of India’s largest digital advocacy organizations, Global Citizen India, which uses the collective voice of the youth to hold decisionmakers accountable and accelerate the achievement of the SDGs. Kshitij has also managed a political campaign during the 2019 Indian National Election and led strategy for an anti-trafficking organization in India. He is a Khemka Fellow, a StartingBloc School of Social Innovation Fellow and a Fellow at the Global Social Change Leadership Institute at the Wagner School of Public Service, New York University. For more, see <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kshitij-sharan-229ab9104/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/kshitij-sharan-229ab9104/</a>.</p><h2></h2><h2>CSDI Policy Communications Workshop Series</h2><p>Policy intersects with almost every academic field. Many research or knowledge products can effect greater change if they are also communicated to non-academic audiences in the policy world. CSDI will manage and conduct an integrated series of six workshops across UBC to help students, faculty, and staff communicate their research effectively to stakeholders for policy change.</p><p><strong>Do you ask yourself any of the following questions as a member of the academic community at UBC?</strong></p><ul><li>How can my research create impact in the real world?</li><li>My research is technical. How will I communicate to important stakeholders and decision-makers, including the general public, so that it is used constructively?</li><li>How can I include policy communication in my grants?</li><li>What are the best policy communications vehicles to reach people?</li><li>Who can help me to write new genres and format them attractively?</li><li>If YES, then the CSDI Policy Communications Workshop series is for you! The policy communications workshop series is a component of the CSDI Policy Communications Consulting Clinic (CPCC).</li></ul><p></p><h2>What is CPCC?</h2><p>The CSDI Policy Communications Clinic is a service for the policy communications and policy impact needs of students, staff, and faculty at UBC. CPCC offers workshops and individualized consulting hours to help develop policy communications products.</p><p>Read more about CPCC <a href="https://democracy.ubc.ca/cpcc" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</p><h2></h2><h2>A﻿bout the Organizers</h2><h3></h3><h3>What is CSDI?</h3><p>The Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) is part of the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs (SPPGA) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). It aims to advance interdisciplinary publicly-engaged research, teaching, and dissemination of knowledge about innovation in democratic practice and institutions. CSDI leads and participates in projects at the local (BC), national (Canada), and international levels.</p><p>Our interdisciplinary work seeks to:</p><ul><li>Understand the past;</li><li>Analyze the present;</li><li>Train for the future.</li></ul><p>Read more about CSDI <a href="https://democracy.ubc.ca" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</p><h3></h3><h3>What is the Knowledge Exchange unit?</h3><p>The UBC Knowledge Exchange team is part of the UBC Innovation Hub in the Vice President’s Office for Research and Innovation. We aim to build capacity among researchers, students and staff across disciplines to develop and share impactful knowledge through connections and exchange with communities, government, not-for-profit organizations and the general public.</p><p></p>

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