WRITINGS

What happens when you go back into your organisation or network after a transformative learning or convening experience, where no one else knows what you've learnt - and what can behavioural science do to help? The “Concrete Wall” is a concept we coined a few years ago, in our initial co-creation work for the Curiosity Incubator | Accelerator for Good with colleagues across the world, including key discussions with the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership team

The Intellectual Forum at Jesus College, Cambridge - the birthplace of the Curiosity Incubator - recently featured an article about our origin story, and how we came to be, in the most recent Jesus College Annual Report (pp 39-42 - link here ). We had a lot of fun working through with editor Kate Coughlin what our origin story actually is, how to distil the themes on which we draw, the influences to our work and framework, and what makes the Curiosity Incubator | Accelerato

In blog #1 on co-creating a Community of Practice on 21 st Century Government Learning, we proposed transitioning from a ‘where next?’ approach to policymaking and learning, to a ‘how, next?’ one, to meet our current challenges. Our merry band of Learning in Government CoP-ers at the kick off workshop When it works well, learning in Government is not only a set of useful organisational or HR tools – it’s a continuous approach to new information and shifting territory, that

It was a fantastic Curiosity Incubator day at Jesus College, Cambridge, with colleagues from the Cabinet Office, Department for Education, Net Zero mission and the University Policy Engagement Network, co-discovering together what needs to be built for government learning in the 21 st century. A key piece of the puzzle is the peer-to-peer learning that gets to the very heart of how we learn together what works, what to try, and how to try it. Our workshop was bookended by

We spent a fantastic couple of days of Curiosity Incubator | Accelerator for Good co-learning and co-design at Open Society Foundations with Barry Varcoe and team, working through the radical “how” of how space can be designed and purposed to allow and support collaboration, cooperation and impactful work on our most pressing challenges. One major theme of our work for the past 10 years on the application of behavioural science and public innovation methodologies for go

Apolitical 's survey of civil servants last month had "Identifying and framing problems" as the top policy skill they wanted to develop....