Advances in science and technology create ongoing challenges and opportunities for public policy in all domains including health, environment, agriculture, energy, defence, trade, space and the economy. This advanced workshop series will give you graduate-level learning in our masters degree classes, with comprehensive, realworld knowledge and skills to:
The Professional Workshop Series is designed to tackle today’s policy challenges with the theoretical understanding and practical skills to contribute to the goals of economic viability, social acceptability and environmental sustainability in different social and political contexts. Initiated by Professor Ian Chubb AC, former Chief Scientist, the Professional Workshop Series is co-designed with senior members of the Australian Public Service and ANU expertise. Learn and network with experts Co-convened by two internationally renowned ANU schools, Crawford School of Public Policy and the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, this workshop series sees you join our masters-level graduate classes.
Co-convened by two internationally renowned ANU schools, Crawford School of Public Policy and the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, this workshop series sees you join our masters-level graduate classes.
The co-convenors have specially selected each case-study learning day, working with diverse and senior experts from the Australian Public Service, and from science, social science, engineering and public policy across ANU. Your cohort will be professional colleagues from government, private and NGOs and course materials will be curated to address specific policy questions from relevant literature across a range of disciplines including:
Learning in an interactive case-study classroom, you’ll engage with the distinctive issues emerging from the intersection between scientific knowledge, technological opportunities and public policy decisions. With this learning, you’ll be better equipped to navigate the interface between science, technology and public policy for your everyday policy work. Case studies will connect and build upon the cross-cutting themes presented in the compulsory introductory workshop including:
Each policy domain will be explored with at least one case study. Case studies for semester 1 2019 include:
Future workshops will be developed in consultation with the Australian Public Service.
The Professional Workshop Series is designed so that participants may access credit towards an ANU graduate degree in the future. The Professional Workshop Series requires successful completion of the following compulsory components:
Participants may take up to 12 workshops as part of this series, including ‘An Introduction to Science, Technology and Public Policy’.
Successful completion of the compulsory components of the Professional Workshop Series means you’ll be eligible to apply for credit arrangements for selected ANU graduate degree programs (subject to standard eligibility).
The more you complete, the more credit we’ll be able to consider for you.
Professional Workshops are full days from 9:30am to 4:30pm, except for ‘Case Study Synthesis 1’, which is a half-day workshop. All workshops are held at ANU on Fridays. The current workshop schedule is available here.
Individual workshops are $1,195 for full-day workshops and $600 for halfday workshops with discounts available if you’re registering for three or more workshops/
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For further information please contact the ANU Centre for Continuing Education:
This Introductory session will connect science, technology, and public policy answering questions like:
Upon successful completion of this exploration of the theoretical implications of science, technology, and policy, participants will have a clearer sense of the relevance of the policy issues across a whole-of-government framework.
This one-day professional workshop will explore the latest developments in the science and technology of Augmented Intelligence (AI). Through interactive engagement with the case study, participants will also enhance their understanding of the challenges of deploying AI in the development and implementation of policy.
Upon successful completion of this interactive case study, participants will have a clearer sense of the relevance of the issues associated with AI across a whole-of-government framework.
This one-day professional workshop is a companion to Case Study 1. Participants will explore how predictive modelling technologies might be used to anticipate and address challenges in delivering services to citizens.
As with Case Study 1, upon successful completion of this interactive case study, participants will have a clearer sense of the relevance of these issues across a whole-of-government framework.
This one-day professional workshop explores science and technology issues associated with the role of Chief Environmental Biosecurity Officer. This role was announced by the Government on 29 June 2018. Through interactive engagement with the case study, participants will explore the ways in which this role will bridge the policy-science nexus to deliver on its key objectives including:
Upon successful completion of this interactive case study, participants will have improved understanding of the opportunities and challenges of this environmental biosecurity policy-science nexus.
This one-day professional workshop explores the challenges of setting priorities in an Australian context of limited resources with a comparative approach to large-infrastructure projects in Europe and North America. Through interactive engagement with the case study, participants will gain an improved understanding of the strategic response to priority setting with a focus on smaller satellites. Workshop participants will also engage with understanding the distinctive global leadership of Mount Stromlo in managing ‘space debris’.
Upon successful completion of the interactive case study, participants will have a clearer understanding of the ways in which the government can support R&D and technology capabilities appropriate to the context.
In this final session, participants will review all preceding case studies and work toward a synthesis of concepts. The goal is to develop a multifaceted approach to robust public policy.
This session will connect science, technology, and public policy answering questions like:
Upon successful completion of this exploration of the theoretical implications of science, technology, and policy, participants will have a clearer sense of the relevance of the policy issues across a whole-of-government framework.