Anne Thurston

Anne is a Senior Policy Designer in Defra’s Policy Design Lab team, currently working in partnership with policy teams in the Farming and Countryside Programme.

From systems maps to system stories

Becky Miller, Anne Thurston and William Hallows, 27 November 2025 - Case study, PublicPolicyDesign

Defra’s Policy Design Lab team show some of the design methods they use to make sense of complex evidence.

Designing policy with complex evidence

Becky Miller, Anne Thurston and Robin Hancock, 8 May 2025 - Case study, PublicPolicyDesign

Farming policy design experts from Defra get to grips with making sense of complexity.

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