JSQ167 Evidence-Based Policy: Engaging Stakeholders and Analysing Data
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| Unit code: | JSQ167 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
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Unit Outline: Session 1 2026, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | JSQ167 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
Understanding stakeholder engagement and policy data analysis is essential for a career in public policy. This unit equips you with the skills to create effective stakeholder engagement plans, ethically communicate with diverse communities, and report on stakeholder interactions. Emphasising evidence-based policy, it covers qualitative research methods, basic statistical analysis, and comprehensive policy evaluation techniques. These competencies ensure that policy decisions are informed by robust data and stakeholder insights, leading to more effective and inclusive outcomes.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Plan for engagement with diverse communities and stakeholders on policy issues, including First Nations.
- Reflect on communication with stakeholders in the process of data collection for policy development.
- Apply research methods to analyse qualitative and quantitative data.
- Evaluate policy success drawing on research data and evidence.
Content
This unit covers the following:
- Principles of stakeholder engagement
- Engagement plans and research design
- Reporting stakeholder engagement
- Ethics and communication with diverse communities and vulnerable people, including First Nations
- Evidence-based policy
- Qualitative research methods and analysis
- Understanding and interpreting basic statistics
- Policy evaluation
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following:
- Online modules
- Online discussions
- Readings
- Online Learning Activities
During the unit, you will be required to understand, critically reflect, analyse, synthesise and apply the presented concepts to your own practice.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
The following types of feedback will assist you to develop the knowledge and skills in this unit:
- Self-feedback in the form of online written reflections
- Peer feedback in the form of group discussion and online collaborative sessions
- Adaptive feedback in the form of online interactive learning activities and quizzes
- Teacher feedback in the online collaborative sessions, discussion boards, and written feedback on assessment
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessments in this unit.
1. Stakeholder Engagement - This task draws on approaches to engaging with diverse stakeholders to create an engagement plan, conduct a stakeholder interview and reflect on this in relation to your work as a policy officer.
2. Policy Evaluation - this task connects data analysis skills with policy evaluation processes to report on the evaluation of a data set related to a specific policy.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Stakeholder Engagement
You will take on the role of a policy officer to plan for stakeholder engagement and interview a community stakeholder in relation to a policy issue.
Part A: You will produce a stakeholder engagement plan for your identified policy issue. Include considerations for relevant First Nations engagement.
Part B: You will select a community stakeholder and record yourself interviewing them about the policy issue.
Part C: Following your interview, you will record yourself reflecting on the interview and how this impacts your future professional practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Policy Evaluation
You will take on the role of a policy analyst to evaluate policy. Analyse a data set to identify the themes in the data and extract the data relevant for evaluating the success of the policy issue.
You will be required to meet with the unit coordinator and provide a brief defence of the strategies used to analyse and extract data. This will involve responding to questions about your assignment.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There are no resources that are required to be purchased for this unit. Other resources will be available in the unit's Canvas site.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.JQ23 Graduate Certificate in Policy and Governance
- Critically analyse data and evidence to identify policy issues and inform policy development.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Policy Evaluation - Recognise and collaborate with a plurality of stakeholders and articulate diverse perspectives.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Stakeholder Engagement
JQ45 Master of Justice
- Critically analyse research, data and evidence and apply to justice practices and contexts.
Relates to: ULO3, Policy Evaluation - Design approaches for working with a plurality of diverse stakeholders and communities, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Relates to: ULO1, Stakeholder Engagement - Evaluate complex and sensitive problems of justice to inform evidence-based responses.
Relates to: ULO4, Policy Evaluation - Apply a range of communication modes to professionally and strategically interpret and convey critical information to diverse stakeholders.
Relates to: ULO2, Stakeholder Engagement
Unit Outline: Session 3 2026, QUT Online, Online
| Unit code: | JSQ167 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
Understanding stakeholder engagement and policy data analysis is essential for a career in public policy. This unit equips you with the skills to create effective stakeholder engagement plans, ethically communicate with diverse communities, and report on stakeholder interactions. Emphasising evidence-based policy, it covers qualitative research methods, basic statistical analysis, and comprehensive policy evaluation techniques. These competencies ensure that policy decisions are informed by robust data and stakeholder insights, leading to more effective and inclusive outcomes.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Plan for engagement with diverse communities and stakeholders on policy issues, including First Nations.
- Reflect on communication with stakeholders in the process of data collection for policy development.
- Apply research methods to analyse qualitative and quantitative data.
- Evaluate policy success drawing on research data and evidence.
Content
This unit covers the following:
- Principles of stakeholder engagement
- Engagement plans and research design
- Reporting stakeholder engagement
- Ethics and communication with diverse communities and vulnerable people, including First Nations
- Evidence-based policy
- Qualitative research methods and analysis
- Understanding and interpreting basic statistics
- Policy evaluation
Learning Approaches
In this unit you will learn through engaging in the following:
- Online modules
- Online discussions
- Readings
- Online Learning Activities
During the unit, you will be required to understand, critically reflect, analyse, synthesise and apply the presented concepts to your own practice.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
The following types of feedback will assist you to develop the knowledge and skills in this unit:
- Self-feedback in the form of online written reflections
- Peer feedback in the form of group discussion and online collaborative sessions
- Adaptive feedback in the form of online interactive learning activities and quizzes
- Teacher feedback in the online collaborative sessions, discussion boards, and written feedback on assessment
Assessment
Overview
There are two assessments in this unit.
1. Stakeholder Engagement - This task draws on approaches to engaging with diverse stakeholders to create an engagement plan, conduct a stakeholder interview and reflect on this in relation to your work as a policy officer.
2. Policy Evaluation - this task connects data analysis skills with policy evaluation processes to report on the evaluation of a data set related to a specific policy.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Stakeholder Engagement
You will take on the role of a policy officer to plan for stakeholder engagement and interview a community stakeholder in relation to a policy issue.
Part A: You will produce a stakeholder engagement plan for your identified policy issue. Include considerations for relevant First Nations engagement.
Part B: You will select a community stakeholder and record yourself interviewing them about the policy issue.
Part C: Following your interview, you will record yourself reflecting on the interview and how this impacts your future professional practice.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Policy Evaluation
You will take on the role of a policy analyst to evaluate policy. Analyse a data set to identify the themes in the data and extract the data relevant for evaluating the success of the policy issue.
You will be required to meet with the unit coordinator and provide a brief defence of the strategies used to analyse and extract data. This will involve responding to questions about your assignment.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment to undertaking academic work and assessment in a manner that is ethical, fair, honest, respectful and accountable.
The Academic Integrity Policy sets out the range of conduct that can be a failure to maintain the standards of academic integrity. This includes, cheating in exams, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion and contract cheating. It also includes providing fraudulent or altered documentation in support of an academic concession application, for example an assignment extension or a deferred exam.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Breaching QUT’s Academic Integrity Policy or engaging in conduct that may defeat or compromise the purpose of assessment can lead to a finding of student misconduct (Code of Conduct – Student) and result in the imposition of penalties under the Management of Student Misconduct Policy, ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
There are no resources that are required to be purchased for this unit. Other resources will be available in the unit's Canvas site.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.JQ23 Graduate Certificate in Policy and Governance
- Critically analyse data and evidence to identify policy issues and inform policy development.
Relates to: ULO3, ULO4, Policy Evaluation - Recognise and collaborate with a plurality of stakeholders and articulate diverse perspectives.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO2, Stakeholder Engagement
JQ45 Master of Justice
- Critically analyse research, data and evidence and apply to justice practices and contexts.
Relates to: ULO3, Policy Evaluation - Design approaches for working with a plurality of diverse stakeholders and communities, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Relates to: ULO1, Stakeholder Engagement - Evaluate complex and sensitive problems of justice to inform evidence-based responses.
Relates to: ULO4, Policy Evaluation - Apply a range of communication modes to professionally and strategically interpret and convey critical information to diverse stakeholders.
Relates to: ULO2, Stakeholder Engagement