Welcome to The Policy Institute

The Policy Institute aims to promote active debate and engagement between the academic and policy communities.

Based in the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, the Institute’s programme of activities includes delivering conferences and lectures which highlight the contribution of philosophy and social science to current public issues. This includes the Henry Grattan Public Lecture Series which aims to promote informed and non-partisan debate and to offer new ideas to decision-makers and opinion-formers on long-term social, political and economic challenges.

The Institute also publishes a series of Studies in Public Policy (informally known as ‘Blue Papers’) which provide short, rigorous, but accessible analyses of policy issues.