Are you looking for new ways to energise your teaching and deepen participant learning? The Case Method for Public Policy Workshop equips public policy educators and civil service trainers with powerful, interactive teaching techniques that transform classrooms into dynamic spaces of debate, reflection and real-world problem-solving.
This intensive 1.5-day workshop is designed for educators and trainers at all career stages who want to make learning more engaging and practical by integrating the case method into existing curricula. Whether you’re teaching students in university settings or training civil servants in the workplace, the workshop will equip you with the tools and confidence that you can immediately apply to your teaching to:
- Improve critical thinking and decision-making;
- Increase student participation;
- Enhance collaboration;
- Connect theory to practice in meaningful ways.
What is the Case Method?
Unlike traditional lectures, seminars or workshops, the case method places learners in the shoes of public leaders facing real-world dilemmas — from managing a hospital during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK to negotiating across conflict lines to avoid environmental disaster in the Red Sea.
Through guided discussion and peer interaction, participants:
- Apply frameworks and theories to real-world scenarios
- Practice vital leadership skills such as judgement and empathy
- Grapple with complex trade-offs
- Learn from each other’s perspectives.
Every session is unique — shaped by the participants and their insights.
Very interesting, well put together, energising, and quite a lot of unexpected takeaways on delivering the case method, but also skills on teaching, synthesising, and using different techniques regardless of the case.
Professional, thoughtful, challenging and productive.
Led by experienced and award-winning faculty, during this 1.5-day workshop, you will:
- Participate in live case discussions to experience the method from the learner's perspective
- Practice leading case sessions with feedback from experienced faculty and peers
- Examine the teaching methods, skills and tips used to lead effective case discussions
- Gain practical tools in a case-writing masterclass to help you develop cases designed specifically for your training needs
- Explore best practices for selecting and adapting cases to fit your learning outcomes and existing curricula.
No prior case-method experience is required. The workshop is designed for individuals new to the case method or seeking to refine their interactive pedagogical skills.
- Trainers from civil service institutes looking to adopt more interactive, engaging teaching methods
- Faculty members in higher education institutions who actively teach at least one course in undergraduate or postgraduate programmes in political science, public policy, public administration, or similar subjects
- Deans and directors of schools of government and civil service training institutions who are looking to bring practical teaching methods to their organisations.
Graduate students with significant teaching responsibilities will also be considered.
Previous participants joined from fields including:
- Economics
- International Affairs
- Law
- Politics
- Public Administration
- Public Management
- Public Policy
- Social Policy
If you have any questions about the workshop, please contact us at executive.education@bsg.ox.ac.uk.
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In addition to our Oxford-based programme, the Case Centre on Public Leadership also delivers tailored workshops for organisations around the world.
If you are interested in bringing case method training to your organisation, please contact us at executive.education@bsg.ox.ac.uk to explore a bespoke programme.