47 Short courses in Public Policy in England, United Kingdom

Students in this Approaches to Policymaking course King's College London at will be introduced to the policy process: how public policies are decided upon and implemented.

In this Learning What Works course at King's College London, we will explore the role of evaluation in policymaking and provide an overview of the tools of evaluation. You will have the opportunity to critique existing evaluations as well as design an evaluation of your own.

London School of Economics and Political Science's The Political Economy of Public Policy course enhances a student’s understanding of the characteristics, determinants and consequences of public-policy making in liberal democracies.

How do politics and institutions shape public policy? How and why does policy change? How does bureaucracy work, and how might it be reformed? London School of Economics and Political Science offers the Public Policy Analysis programme.

Gain a comprehensive overview of the issues facing the healthcare industry through the lens of economics, and learn how policy can be used to address contemporary global healthcare challenges with London School of Economics and Political Science's Health Economics and Policy. 

This Advanced Parliamentary Theory and Practice course at King's College London will introduce you to the different functions that officials will be required to perform, and the wider concerns involved.

There are several key economic concepts that policymakers need to be able to understand and apply during the policy process, including devising policy, critiquing policy proposals and evaluating policy. The Economic Analysis of Public Policy at King's College London equips you with the key tools and methodologies needed to focus these concepts on their real-world application.

The Climate Change and Policy course at King's College London will focus on the essentials of climate science, impacts and adaptation to climate change, and international climate policy and achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions globally.

This Communications, Media and Public Policy course at King's College London teaches a mix of practical tools and approaches that can be employed in order to become a more effective policy communicator.

Atlas Summer Courses – Law introduces students to how legal systems shape society. Explore justice, rights, and responsibility, and examine modern issues such as cybercrime and online privacy through discussion-led learning in small groups while studying Law in Oxford.

The Foreign Policy Analysis course from UCL Summer School introduces you to the study of foreign policy within International Relations.

The Wars and Violence course from UCL Summer School introduces students to major trends in warfare (types of wars, the actors engaged in wars, targets in wars, funding of warfare, technology of warfare), theories explaining these trends, and ethical questions concerning how wars are fought. 

This Financial Management for Policymakers course at King's College London seeks to contextualise the informational environment in which accounting, particularly management accounting, is conducted to assist policy decision-makers to make well-informed decisions as they plan, control and monitor their organisations.

Explore public policy innovations and technology, and the strategies for transforming and addressing the challenges in policy making. London School of Economics and Political Science offers the Public Policy Innovations programme.

Industrial organisation is concerned with the use of economic analysis in studying competition between firms and the evolution of market structure. London School of Economics and Political Science offers the Industrial Organisation and Introduction to Competition Policy programme.

Queen Mary University of London's Mastering Public Policy course has been designed to introduce a variety of fundamental perspectives on public policy analysis and formulation to achieve the United Nations (2015) Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This Human Rights and Forced Migration - International Protection in the 21st Century module at Oxford Brookes University offers a clear introduction to the global systems, laws and institutions that underpin the protection of human rights and refugees.

This Community Leaders - Lobbying for Change course at the University of Roehampton will equip you with the skills to influence local, regional, and national policy by effectively lobbying decision-makers on behalf of community causes.

London School of Economics and Political Science's America as a Global Power - FDR to Biden course examines the evolution of American statecraft since World War II, with special emphasis on the president’s role in defining the nation’s interests.

Gain the skills to navigate and critically analyse the changing legal environment that is shaping data, law and policy. Learn more at the Data - Law, Policy and Regulation programme from the London School of Economics and Political Science.