Reports

Building Confidence in the Future

Perennial questions for national resilience include:  ‘What does resilience look like?’, ‘How resilient do we need to be?’ and ‘How do we know we’re doing enough?’. The imperative for strengthening… Read more

Operationalising Societal Resilience as a Local Resilience Capability

This Operationalising Societal Resilience as a Local Resilience Capability report, authored by Dr Judy Scully, Professor Duncan Shaw and David Powell (Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK and… Read more

International Models of Emergency Management Involving Civil Society

The National Preparedness Commission commissioned an 18 month research programme entitled ‘Towards a Resilient Democracy’, funded by the JRSST Charitable Trust. The fourth in a series of reports by Dr… Read more

Elephant in the Room

The National Preparedness Commission and the BCS IT Leaders Forum, a Specialist Group from BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT) held a Roundtable chaired by NPC Chair, Lord Toby Harris,… Read more

Communicating Effectively with the Public During a Crisis: A Literature Review

As part of a body of research funded by JRSS Charitable Trust, researchers at Alliance Manchester Business School and the National Consortium for Societal Resilience [UK+] have carried out a… Read more

Societal Resilience Initiatives During Covid-19

In March 2020, Covid-19 plunged us all into a new reality that tested the resilience of each of us.  In a study funded by the JRSST Charitable Trust, Dr Judy… Read more

Independent Review of the 2004 Civil Contingencies Act

The National Preparedness Commission has published its Independent Review of the 2004 Civil Contingencies Act and its supporting arrangements. The Review was prepared by a team of experts in the… Read more

The Data-sharing Imperative: Lessons from the Pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic led the UK shutting down in March 2020. This paper, by Dr Andrea Simmons, explains how improved data sharing would have enabled better delivery of services to… Read more

Enhancing Warnings

This report by Dr Carina Fearnley and Professor Ilan Kelman from the UCL Warning Research Centre offers insights into what warnings are and how they can better support actions for… Read more

Partnering with Purpose

This report, prepared by Marsh McLennan for the National Preparedness Commission, examines the opportunities for stronger interactions between public and private sectors. Founded on extensive desk research and interviews with… Read more

Partner Reports

AI and Grey-Zone Aggression: Risks and Opportunities

NPC Commissioner Elisabeth Braw has written a report on AI and Grey-Zone Aggression for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), of which she is a Senior Fellow.  The paper looks at… Read more

UNDRR Handbook for Implementing the Principles for Resilient Infrastructure

In April 2022, NPC Commissioner Professor Liz Varga updated us on a set of principles for resilient infrastructure being developed by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), in collaboration… Read more

Bee-yond the emergency: Lessons from Manchester Arena on better support for young survivors

Marking the sixth anniversary of the Manchester Arena attack, the Bee The Difference report is a unique research project designed by and for young Manchester survivors in collaboration with UK… Read more

The Ukraine war and threats to food and energy security

Researchers at Chatham House have published a report investigating the war in Ukraine and threats to food and energy security that arise from it.  Presenting the socio-economic backdrop to the… Read more

The Defence contribution to resilience

The UK MOD has recently released the Joint Doctrine Publication (JDP) 02, UK Operations: The Defence Contribution to Resilience (4th Edition). As the Foreword makes clear, ‘Defence has a key… Read more

Put people first to get emergency response right

The Chief Executive of the British Red Cross, Mike Adamson, writes for the National Preparedness Commission about the importance of influencing the National Resilience Strategy and Civil Contingencies Act review…. Read more

Enhancing Defence’s Contribution to Societal Resilience in the UK

A report conducted by the Global Strategic Partnership (GSP) on behalf of the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre (DCDC) within the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) was published on 21… Read more

Critical Capabilities: strengthening UK resilience

The National Preparedness Commission and the Royal Academy of Engineering share a concern to increase the UK’s resilience post-COVID.  This urgent mission was discussed at a joint roundtable on 22… Read more

Transitioning From Risk To Resilience

Covid-19 has shown that there are systemic risks that do not readily lend themselves to quantitative risk analysis. While a pandemic has been recorded on most professional risk registers for… Read more

Half of the National Risk Register is Missing

Suzanne Raine in a newsbrief published by RUSI says that “Half of the National Risk Register is missing” and argues that it should be much more than a list of… Read more