• Governments are having a mission moment: what can they learn from cities?

    3 October 2023

    As more governments around the world adopt a “mission” approach to their biggest challenges, they should be informed by the experience of “Challenge” competitions used by cities.

    Pauline McGuirk, Tom Baker, Alistair Sisson, Robyn Dowling & Sophia Maalsen

  • A mobile testing site in the car park of Chadstone shopping centre in Melbourne, Australia (DLMcK/iStock)

    The policy dividend of integrated knowledge: perspectives from the COVID-19 experience

    9 May 2022

    COVID-19 reminded us that insights from the lab and the social world must be considered in tandem to tackle some of our hardest public health challenges.

    Peter Doherty

  • The 2019-2020 bushfire season made a different set of systems visible – fire, water, rain, wind, smoke, firefighters and fire safety apps, and of course climate and climate change. (Photo by Stuart Shaw/iStock)

    How should policymakers think about the future?

    9 May 2022

    Policymakers help to design the future. Their challenge is to embrace a world of twenty-first century dynamic, complex systems.

    Genevieve Bell