23-25 September 2026
John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh
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Alan Colville
Service maintenance! resetting the conditions to design with impact
Ali Fawkes & Jenni Parker
Research & co-design with children - a beginner’s guide
Amanda Payne & Germaine Faulkner
Customer centricity in the public sector
Faye Churchill
Breaking bad policy: how we built HMRC's policy lab
James Higgott
How to influence the strategic direction of large, complex services
Jen Staves & Simon McCartney
Homegrowing service design capability in government
Jessica Hughes
Make mapping great again
Julian Thompson
Transcending Black Realities- The Possibilities of Joy & Imagination
Kate Ivey-Williams
Embedding service design bottom up & top down - lessons from the field
Kate Tarling
Building successful service organisations
Kerrie Hughes
Once more, with feeling: the role of emotions in design
Lightning Talks
Curated by Caroline Jarrett
Martha Edwards
Is co-design futile?
Martin Jordan & Kara Kane
The long slog of public service design
Nina Wafula & Mike Woolf
Taking an equitable design approach: lessons from designing a mental health service for young Black people
Polly Bass
Navigating ‘dark matter’: a model for policy design in local government
Rochelle Gold
The Journey to Eutopia
Sophie Dennis
Conference Wrap-Up: Where Next for Service Design in Government?
Shagun Seth & Kalvinder Kohli
Partners in communities
Stéphanie Krus
Inclusion: going beyond accessibility and digital capability