A gateway for collaborative governance
The Policy Innovation Hub aims to foster sustainable and enduring knowledge partnerships that create value for the residents and communities of Queensland, Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Established in May 2016, the Hub promotes and facilitates close collaboration between Griffith University researchers, students and partners in industry, government and the community.
The Hub is a gateway for collaborative governance, supporting responsive policy-making and service delivery by ensuring that the best available knowledge and expertise is applied to the challenges facing the state today and into the future. The Hub is guided by an Advisory Board consisting of University independent representatives.
Focus streams
The Policy Innovation Hub focusses on delivering innovation and excellent across the five streams and brings together researchers in cross-disciplinary project teams to build on research insights and provide evidence-based responses to key policy challenges.
Reforming community services
Promoting social cohesion and countering violent extremism
Climate change and disaster resilience
Transitioning to the new economy
Good government
Pitch the vote
How can we encourage 17-24 year old Queenslanders to enrol to vote?
The Electoral Commission of Queensland presents all Griffith Film School students with an exciting opportunity to pitch a 30-second advertisement (live action or animated) that encourages young Queenslanders to enrol to vote. The advertisement will be rolled out across Queensland cinemas and across social media platforms in late 2020.
This advertisement will be created in collaboration with LiveLAB and Griffith Business School (Engagement).
Important additional information:
- Pitches should be adapted to scale down. The winning pitch may need to be produced under restricted conditions and with minimal crew.
- Pitches must be politically neutral. Political neutrality is a fundamental requirement for this product for the Electoral Commission of Queensland (ECQ). The ECQ is established under the Electoral Act 1992 as an independent statutory authority, responsible for the impartial conduct of Queensland elections.
- Please email your pitches to digilab@griffith.edu.au by close of business 20 April, 2020
Current collaborators
The Policy Innovation Hub is currently collaborating with the following organisations and government departments:
Book a consultation
The Policy Innovation Hub undertakes consultancies, offers facilitation to explore complex problems and convenes policy workshops to showcase emerging issues or to tackle the public policy challenges of our time.
Hub Resources
A Middle Ground Podcast
Standing firmly in the shadow of Samuel Walker Griffith, Minister and Premier of Queensland in the latter years of the 19th century and first Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.
Griffith was renowned for his capacity to see both sides of an argument and for distrust of extremism of any kind. Celebrating these traditions, A Middle Ground is a forum for the exchange of ideas and reasoned argument.
The Machinery of Government
Independent analysis by Australia’s best political scientists and policy researchers focusing on politics, policy, elections and government.
Regional Innovation Data Lab
We have partnered with The Regional Innovation Data Lab, who empower and enable citizens, governments, industries and researchers to use and share data on key trends and issues to increase productivity and innovation across the economy.
RIDL's data-rich environment can provide new opportunities to fast-track innovative solutions that address long-standing urban and regional problems. In turn, it can also provide insights that will improve policy making, service delivery, and inform more effective business and regional development.
Political Analysis
With researchers across the university examining policy on election issues across the state, including regional development, tourism, health innovation, social inclusion, Griffith University provided political analysis and debate around the 2018 Queensland state government election.
Intern at the Policy Innovation Hub
The Policy Innovation Hub is frequently on the look out for interns to assist with our many projects. If you are a motivated student keen to gain insights and experience in data analysis, briefings and professional communication.
To express your interest, students should email us with contact details and a paragraph outlining your skills and experience.
Sarah Binney is an NYC-based freelance journalist with a research interest in the relationship between the news media and politics. She currently works and studies at New York University. Sarah undertook an internship with the Hub and she shares her experience:
"Working in the Policy Innovation Hub was an incredible development experience for me. I learned about the complex aspects of local, state, and federal government and gained insights into public policy and the public sector. I will always appreciate this opportunity and know working directly with Australia's best political scientists as part of an innovative, cross-disciplinary team to solve policy challenges hugely influenced the trajectory of my career. Learning how the government and higher education can work in tandem to enact successful policy sparked my enduring interest in political science, media, public policy and education, and I plan to further my studies in these areas with a Masters degree.
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