In the UK, the government has typically taken responsibility for ensuring that the general public is able to prepare for, withstand and adapt to disruption. However, in a world characterised by fast-paced, complex and volatile risks, disruptions happen with greater scale and scope than ever before, making them urgent concerns, and interact across an interconnected globalised space in ways that make it unclear for slow-moving authority groups to know where best to intervene or invest. 

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This dual challenge for policymakers and practitioners has created a window of opportunity in which an alternative model is emerging. In this, responsibility for resilience to a wide range of possible disruptions is not solely a top-down process, but distributed across society and driven by proactive, participatory innovation.

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We explore this emerging model in the projects below. The first, to be announced at the end of 2024, will begin in January 2025.