Long-Term, National Strategy – how do we make it a core capability of the state? Lessons from this year’s Heywood Fellowship on national strategy as a true UK-wide endeavour

This is a pivotal moment for the UK where a shifting global order, climate change, demographics, the technological transformation of the economy and society, intergenerational fairness, public trust in institutions and democracy are all influencing our future outlook.

Join us for this exclusive webinar where this year’s Heywood Fellow, Lucy Smith, and project colleagues will share their work and recommendations on designing a contemporary practice of national strategy.

This is your chance to hear how governments could devise a national view of what really matters in pursuing positive long-term outcomes for citizens, and how to go about balancing trade-offs and big bets.

This year’s Heywood Fellowship is examining the ways governments can tackle future problems and the need for long-term national strategy as a core capability of the state if we are to have real agency over the future.

You will hear new thinking and research which views national strategy as a true UK-wide endeavour, mobilising all our national capacities, not a function or practice of Whitehall alone.

Who should join?

This webinar will be essential listening for anyone working in and with government and interested in how the UK, and its constituent nations and regions, needs to think differently about the future.

This is your chance to hear about the emerging findings and research of this important project.

This webinar will be chaired by Dewi Knight, Director of PolicyWISE, The Open University.

PolicyWISE is a unique UK and Ireland comparative policy, research, and knowledge exchange initiative. We bring people and research together to find solutions to cross-nation issues facing policymakers.

In this webinar you will hear about what the UK can learn from other countries, the need for new practices, the role of ‘big bets’ and trade-offs, the importance of ‘place’, and the creation of learning systems. 

Book your space on this event here.