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

11 September 2026
9.30am - 4.30pm

Effective media skills are one of the most important skills to develop when working in think tank research or communications. This training is designed to help you to identify and communicate your key message and effectively represent your organisation across multiple media formats.

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

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Public speaking - panels training

15 September 2026
9.00am - 1.00pm

Do you have to speak on panels? Do you want to learn how to best manage a Q&A? Do you want to set yourself up for success as a panel Chair? Our new training session, ahead of party conference season, will help you do just that!

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

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Upcoming webinars

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Building your own personal brand with Joe Hill

23 June 2026
11am - 12pm

Joe Hill, Director of Strategy at Re:State, will take us through how they completely overhauled their strategy and comms in the last two years and how he built up his own personal brand as someone completely new to the think tank space.

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OPEN TO ALL

Awards webinar with Sir David Gauke

30 June 2026
2.30pm - 3.15pm

Join us ahead of the awards application deadline for a practical webinar on how to craft a strong and competitive application and put your think tank in the best position for success at this year’s awards!

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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!

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.

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.