Policy skills and knowledge you’ll learn
International policy cycles: from new issues to agenda-setting, negotiation, implementation, monitoring and review.
Different levels of policy-making, from city to country, regional and international levels.
Choosing the right policy forum for your research.
Establishing clear policy objectives.
Identifying and understanding policy target audiences through guided stakeholder mappings and audience analyses.
Sharpening message framing techniques.
Coalition building in policy processes.
Structuring and writing a policy brief.
Structuring and writing a 2-minute policy statement.
Other advocacy channels & techniques.
Bring research findings you would like to the workshop. Transform them into a policy brief and policy statement. You’ll receive one-on-one feedback from the trainer on them.
Who is this workshop for?
This workshop is for researchers working at universities, think tanks, and non-governmental organisations, as well as for graduate students conducting research. The workshop is hands-on, and participants are encouraged to bring their own or their organisations research findings to the workshop so that we can work together to transform them into a policy brief and a policy statement.
Meet the trainer
Dr. Cecilia Cannon has 20 years experience in policy and academic research, teaching, and policy communications. She is a Senior Research Associate at the Graduate Institute’s Global Governance Centre. She served as Academic Adviser to the United Nations for its 75th anniversary and has worked as a consultant for other international organisations (IOs) since 2013. She serves on the Board of the Academic Council on the United Nations System. She directed the Graduate Institute’s Executive Master in International Negotiation and Policy-making from 2019-2021. She has created several digital tools to facilitate research uptake in policy circles. Previously, she worked in marketing/ communications, including in Geneva where she managed IO and NGO clients.
