The Heywood Fellowship Podcast

The Heywood Fellowship Podcast

How can governments look beyond the next crisis, and govern for the long-term? This podcast series explores how nations set and sustain long-term strategic goals. In a political culture often dominated by short-term pressures, we ask what it really takes to think ahead: to align government, business and society around a shared sense of purpose; to develop resilience in the face of uncertainty; and to make decisions today that shape the country we want tomorrow. Through conversations with experts and practitioners from the UK and other countries, we explore how national strategy works in practice. How do different countries embed long-term thinking in their institutions and culture? What role do foresight, place, memory, and collective endeavour play? And what lessons could the UK learn? This series is part of the Heywood Fellowship, hosted by the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and supported by the Heywood Foundation, which enables a senior UK public servant to reflect on a major question in public life. This series is hosted by Lucy Smith, the 2024-25 Heywood Fellow. For more details on Lucy's project go to: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/fellowship/heywood-fellowship

Episodes

August 7, 2025 10 mins

In this introductory episode Lucy Smith, Heywood Fellow at the Blavtanik School of Government, University of Oxford, provides a short overview of her project, looking at how governments can get better at long-term national strategy. Future episodes will explore aspects of this subject in greater depth.

For more details on Lucy's project go to https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/fellowship/heywood-fellowship.

Mark as Played

In this episode, Lucy Smith, Heywood Fellow at the Blavtanik School of Government, University of Oxford, is joined by Dewi Knight from PolicyWise, Hamida Ali from the Future Governance Forum, and Zainab Agha from the Heywood Fellowship Team to discuss the role of place in long-term national strategy.

For more details on Lucy's project and to access the papers discussed in this episode go to https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/fellowship/...

Mark as Played

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