What does the training cover?

This training provides an overview of how to engage with environmental policy, setting out different techniques for engaging with (or influencing) environmental policy. The course is informed by expert policy practice, academic theories of change, and case studies of good practice.

    1. Workshop Overview

    2. Effective engagement: Our Megaphone of Influence

    3. Analysing policy developments

    4. Policy engagement: A two-way street

    5. Mini-quiz: Understanding the fundamentals of engagement

    1. Exercise: What makes an effective policy influencer?

    2. Academic theories of policy change

    3. When, where, and how can we engage?

    4. Workshop: Choosing your approach (Picking a technique)

    5. Workshop: Choosing your approach (Adapting to audiences)

    1. Dealing with problems and solutions

    2. Government objectives and commitments

    3. Evidence-informed approaches

    4. Cost-benefit analysis and risk assessments

    5. Mini-quiz: Understanding different engagement techniques

    1. Making an impact: Challenges and opportunities

    2. Exercise: What approach works best for you?

    1. Key Messages

    2. Continuing Engagement

    3. Quiz: Do you know how to engage with environmental policy?

Details

  • £100.00
  • 20 lessons
  • 3.5 hours of video content

  • Interactive learning

    Engage in exercises that identify the strengths of policy influence and help you choose an approach to engaging with policy that suits you.

  • Impact focused

    Learn what you need to know about policy engagement: how does change happen and what techniques can you use to influence decisions?

  • Actionable insights

    Adopt an impactful approach to influence by learning from our step-by-step guides, case studies, and examples of successful engagement.

Meet the trainer

Joseph Lewis, IES Head of Policy

Joseph leads the delivery of the IES Policy Programme, standing up for the voice of science, scientists, and the natural world in policy. Joseph has ten years of experience in public policy, including in Parliament and the charity sector. He was recognised on the ENDS Power List 2026 as one of the UK's most impactful environmental professionals.
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