Public Policy Research

Course Description

The Public Policy Research course is a unique offering to the certificate course environment. Bringing together cutting edge policy frameworks, tools and tricks in the broad fields of Governance, Data collection, Policy Design, Policy Evaluation and Communication This course introduces participants to the political significance and societal consequences of policy and policymaking. Policies help accelerate the essential political processes and socio-economic development of the citizens of a nation, which makes researching them tricky. The course will allow participants to learn to think critically and in a 360 degree manner, including all stakeholders party to public policy when learning how to undertake the research.

 

This curriculum is carefully designed to help participants not only to develop skills and knowledge to understand policy and methodology but to also evaluate public policy. The course will incorporate an interactive and engaging teaching methodology. The Public Policy Course will include Video lectures, case studies, live examples, virtual sessions and exciting assignments at the end with feedback systems in place. Public Policy Research can be looked at theoretically but when entering the work foray, the need for practical tools, lessons and tricks are crucial to thrive in this growing sector along with the various theories, logics and frameworks.

 

Course Objectives :

  1. To introduce participants to policy research and its main function areas- understanding public policy, methodology, designing and evaluation.
  2. The course will build participants’ critical thinking, problem solving and decision making capabilities in the public policy sphere
  3. To prepare participants in conducting policy research of any subject area with diverse requirements.
  4. To equip participants in looking at socio-economic issues both quantitatively and qualitatively.

 

Post course completion, learners will have: 

  1. The ability to develop impactful and sustainable policy solutions to address issues in the socio-economic sphere.
  2. Insights from instructors working actively in public policy as academicians and researchers.
  3. An understanding of research methods which will help systematically study a particular issue, policy or initiative in order to get reliable and valid results.
  4. The capability to collect, evaluate and analyse qualitative and quantitative data,  learn how it interacts with policies and how policy research can be presented to various stakeholders.
  5. The skill to analyse evidence based policy with an aim to help participants improve effectiveness of existing policies in their current or future policy related work.
  6. The skill to design, monitor and evaluate a policy to ensure its impactfulness and effectiveness.

 

 

The course will be beneficial for

Students pursuing a degree in Social Sciences, Economics, Statistics and other related subjects. Policy research interns, policy researchers working with corporates,development organisations, consultancies and/or public policy think tanks, and young academicians and scholars.

 

Course Details

  • Weekend sessions
  • Live online sessions
  • Additionally – Pre course Learning Material in the form of videos
  • Certificate Course
  • One Assignment

 

  • Course Fee
  • Alumni – Rs 3,000
  • Students – Rs 4,000
  • Professionals – Rs 5,000

 

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