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This report from UK think tank New Local looks at how we can celebrate, sustain and reimagine community centres. Community centres are a core and...

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Hamas’s human shield strategy in Gaza

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society provides an analysis of Hamas’s systematic use of human shield tactics during the 7 October...

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Reducing school absence: innovation lessons from the last Labour government

This report from UK think tank the Institute for Government explores how Labour can learn from its experience of tackling complex problems when it was...

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The long arm of Tehran: why the UK should ban the IRGC

This report from UK think tank the Henry Jackson Society The Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) sponsors terrorism as part of its mission...

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People management training

22 May 2025
9.30am – 4.30pm

This training is a very practical session that takes you through what makes a good manager, the peculiarities of managing in a think tank, how to transition to manager as well as how to successfully delegate, give effective feedback and have difficult conversations.

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Writing for impact

25 June 2025
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Do you want to make your writing more compelling? Do you want to understand what makes good writing? This practical training takes you through how to better write for impact with a specific focus on writing in the think tank sector.

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Latest membership news

Latest think tank CEO lunch

Smart Thinking kicked off April with our biannual Think Tank CEO - 18 CEOs in a room chatting through all that was affecting them as...

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Launch of our think tank mentoring programme

By popular demand, in National Mentoring Month, Smart Thinking launched its very own mentoring programme! We realised that a mentoring programme would be particularly valuable...

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Bespoke media training for the team at Historic Houses

At the end of April we were brought in by the policy and communications team at Historic Houses to provide bespoke media training to their...

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