Increasing collaboration and
connection between think tanks

Smart Thinking's Membership Network hosts multiple training sessions, webinars and networking events throughout the year to help build the UK think tank community and enable knowledge sharing, pooling of resources and peer-to-peer support throughout the sector.
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Upcoming training

Media training for think tankers

17 June 2026
9.00am - 4.30pm

Effective media skills are one of the most important think tank skills to develop. If you want to become more confident when speaking to the media, be better able to hone your message and to understand the media landscape then this training is for you!

Members £295 (+VAT)
Non-members £495 (+VAT)

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Writing for impact: Storytelling, op-eds and blogs

17 June 2026
9.00am - 1.00pm

Want to have a fluent and persuasive writing style across a range of mediums? Want to make your work more compelling by incorporating storytelling techniques into your writing? This training will help you learn new techniques and adapt your style!

Members £220 (+VAT)
Non-members £395 (+VAT)

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Upcoming webinars

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How to run your own focus groups

21 April 2026
11am - 12pm

Focus groups are an important part of think tank research but can be prohibitively expensive to run. Ben Cooper from the Fabian Society regularly holds his own focus groups to feed into his research and in this webinar will be taking us through how he does it.

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Think tanks and AI - online workshop

19 May 2026
2pm - 3.30pm

This workshop is open to all members and will be a facilitated discussion on how think tanks are using AI, which tools are the most useful and what guardrails or systems each think tank is putting around their use.

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Latest news

Events Network Lunch

Our Events Network met up over lunch in April to discuss plans for party conference, how to get more speaker diversity, events pricing, setting events objectives and how to use events to boost coverage of research. A thoroughly interesting and enjoyable discussion!

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New writing training

In April we ran our newly developed part 2 writing course. This is an intensive, half-day course, that specifically looks at how to collate and assess your research and evidence, how to build that into a narrative and how to effectively plan out your think tank report. We also cover the writing process and how to edit both yours and other’s work.

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How to run a focus group webinar

Focus groups are an important part of think tank research but can be prohibitively expensive to run. Ben Cooper from the Fabian Society regularly holds his own focus groups to feed into his research and in this webinar runs through the practical and useful steps he deploys from recruitment specification to the conversation itself.

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