Policy Communication Fellowship

About the Fellowship

Initiated in the 1980s, the Policy Communication Fellowship has close to 400 alumni who are now highly respected in their fields and actively engaged in advocacy work.

Training Institute

An intensive policy and communication workshop using PACE’s Policy Communication Toolkit modules focuses on the role of research in the policy process and techniques for effective communication of research findings to decisionmakers. During the training, participants:

• Work with their own research data to identify the policy relevance of their findings.
• Learn to draw implications from those findings and communicate them effectively to policy audiences through a variety of platforms.
• Interact with local experts active in policy research and communication.

Policy Communication Assignments

Over several months following the institute, Fellows apply the skills learned at the workshop to prepare:

• Written assignments for policy audiences, based on their dissertation research.
• An oral presentation for policy audiences.

Throughout the assignments, Fellows receive individual feedback from policy communication experts.