Emma Blomkamp

Making global local: Global methods, local planning, and the importance of genuine community engagement in Australia

Willhemina Wahlin, Emma Blomkamp

Journal article  |  2022  |  POLICY DESIGN AND PRACTICE

In 2021, faced with rolling changes to the rules of community engagement due to COVID restrictions, Port Macquarie-Hastings Counci..

Systemic design practice for participatory policymaking

Emma Blomkamp

Journal article  |  2022  |  POLICY DESIGN AND PRACTICE

As the complexity of policy problems is increasingly recognized, and participatory approaches gain popularity, policy workers are ..

Nudge and co-design: complementary or contradictory approaches to policy innovation?

Colette Einfeld, Emma Blomkamp

Journal article  |  2021  |  POLICY STUDIES

Nudge and co-design are gaining popularity as innovative approaches to solving similar policy problems. Nudge is an approach to pu..

Innovation labs and co-production in public problem solving

Michael McGann, Tamas Wells, Emma Blomkamp

Journal article  |  2019  |  PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW

Governments are increasingly establishing innovation labs to enhance public problem solving. Despite the speed at which these new ..

‘Marvellous Melbourne’

Emma Blomkamp, Jenny M Lewis

Book Chapter  |  2019

Melbourne has been named the world’s most liveable city for almost a decade on a number of global rankings. Leaving aside problems..

Marvellous Melbourne: Making the world's most liveable city

Emma Blomkamp, Jenny Lewis

Book Chapter  |  2019

The bulk of the book is then devoted to 15 detailed case studies of striking policy successes from around the world, including Sin..

'Marvellous Melbourne': Making the world's most liveable city

emma Blomkamp, Jennifer Lewis

Book Chapter  |  2019

5 ‘Marvellous Melbourne’: Making the world’s most liveable city (pp. 113-138) Emma Blomkamp and Jenny M. Lewis During the 1880s..

When design meets power: Design thinking, public sector innovation and the politics of policymaking

Jenny Lewis, mcgann McGann, emma Blomkamp

Journal article  |  2019  |  Policy & Politics

Responding to the need for innovation, governments have begun experimenting with ‘design thinking’ approaches to reframe policy is..

The Promise of Co-Design for Public Policy

E Blomkamp

Journal article  |  2018  |  Australian Journal of Public Administration

As a novel method for creatively engaging citizens and stakeholders to find solutions to complex problems, co-design holds great p..

The rise of public sector innovation labs: experiments in design thinking for policy

Michael McGann, Emma Blomkamp, Jenny M Lewis

Journal article  |  2018  |  POLICY SCIENCES

Governments are increasingly turning to public sector innovation (PSI) labs to take new approaches to policy and service design. T..