IIPP Enrichment Lectures

The UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) hosts a dynamic series of Enrichment Lectures every Wednesday. These sessions bring together leading experts from around the world to explore critical themes and cutting-edge research, offering in-depth insights into topics at the heart of our MPA modules. The series provides a unique opportunity for students and the broader community to deepen their understanding of the innovative theories, ideas and polices driving our curriculum. New lectures will be announced regularly on this page.

How We Need Now: A capacity agenda for 2025 and beyond

Wednesday 2nd April - Andrew Greenway

Emergent technologies and the public sector

Wednesday 19th March - Mike Bracken

Who keeps the lights on? The political economy of network energy in Britain, 1950-2023

Wednesday 12th March - Arthur Downing

Re-imaging work and the welfare state

Wednesday 5th March - Hilary Cottam

What Bureaucracies Can Learn from the Creative Arts

Wednesday 26th February - Aaron Maniam

The Three Sirens of Public Administration: Digital Estonia, Happy Bhutan, Capable Singapore

Wednesday 22nd January - Prof. Wolfgang Drechsler

UK 2024 Budget

Wednesday 4th December 2024 - Rob Calvert Jump and Andrea Correa-Jimenez.

Money, Finance and the Economy

Wednesday 20th November - Co-Executive Director of Positive Money, Fran Boait

Collective Production - the Way Governments Produce: How the collective Production Process Can Create Public Value

Wednesday 30th October - IIPP Senior Research Fellow June Sekera

Economics of well-defined choices: the case for the orthodoxy

Wednesday 16th October - Prof. Angus Armstrong

Our research

IIPP research addresses how public value is imagined, practised and evaluated to tackle societal challenges to achieve sustainable, inclusive and innovation-led growth.

Learn more

Contact

For more information about the IIPP Enrichment Lectures and to learn how to get involved, please contact iippcomms@ucl.ac.uk.