What Makes a Bloody Good Policy Officer?
About this episode
This episode features Salli Cohen discussing her book on becoming an effective policy officer.
Few people come to policy officer positions with specific policy training. They might be teachers, lawyers, front-line workers or subject-matter experts. Who teaches us how to do policy work, and what policy actually is? Enter Salli Cohen’s brilliant new book, 'Rollercoaster: How to be a bloody good policy officer.' In this episode we catch up with Salli about: Her one-word definition of policy.What it takes to be a genuinely good policy officer, beyond technical competence.The difference bet...
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