Sydney Policy Lab

About the lab Working together for a fairer, more secure and more democratic society Share The Sydney Policy Lab exists to create surprising and dynamic partnerships between communities, policy-makers and some of the world’s best researchers. We offer a place where people come together to identify what they share in common and work out how to build change for the future. In short, the Sydney Policy Lab is a hub for individuals who share a common commitment to the public good and are working towards this. Together, we’re responding to some of the hardest questions of our age – in areas of equality, belonging and power. Our non-partisan space brings different worlds together, inspiring open collaboration and building real change for the future. In a turbulent world, where our communities are being eroded by spiralling inequality and a creeping sense of insecurity, the Sydney Policy Lab is committed to helping anyone who wants to lead social change for the public good. Building change for the better A new major multi-disciplinary initiative of the University of Sydney, the lab provides an experimental space for people from all backgrounds to meet with researchers from the University. Working together, we create: opportunities to make a positive difference to many people’s lives, through new ideas for effective and lasting policy change training and events that are designed to enable the sharing of ideas and to generate energetic discussion between people of all backgrounds a stronger community of changemakers, who can share their challenges and their successes – supporting each other in a community of practice new collaboration that enables us to build truly inclusive coalitions for change across academia, philanthropy, community action, industry and politics.