Working to make government more effective

Working to make government more effective

Marc Kidson

Researcher

Marc joined the Institute in September 2012, prior to which he coordinated representation and democracy at the University of York Students’ Union. His research covers organisational capabilities in the Civil Service and the broader issues around Civil Service Reform. Marc contributed to the IfG report Transforming Whitehall, looking at the management of departmental change programmes and has been involved in setting up Connecting Policy With Practice: People Powered Change, a partnership with the Big Lottery Fund. He graduated in 2010 with a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford.

Marc is currently on secondment to the London Borough of Haringey.

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13 OCT 2014 Comment

Honesty is the best policy

The civil service policy profession needs to keep talking about the progress it’s making.

01 AUG 2014 Comment

Then and now

Learning lessons for the new fuel poverty strategy.

15 JUL 2014 Report

Doing them Justice

This report focuses on how to improve the implementation of social justice policy and identifies eleven lessons for ministers and officials. 

02 OCT 2013 Report

Organising Policy Making

The emerging trends in how policy functions are organised and the potential impact these could have on future policy making.

24 JUN 2013 Report

Meeting the Challenge?

Following our discussion paper on Civil Service capabilities, this report compares previous reforms to the proposals in the new Capabilities Plan publ