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Young People and the Future of Scotland - How to get young people involved in strategic foresight

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By Claire Elliott, Scottish Government Introduction A bold approach to a futures project, bringing young people into Scotland’s long-term policy thinking, made possible through financial support via GO-Science Futures’ co-funding initiative. Young People and the Future of Scotland was a …

Police Emerging Science and Technology Trends

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A digital graphic with a dark blue background and grid lines. On the left side, the title "POLICE EMERGING SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY TRENDS" is displayed in bright yellow text. On the right, an illustrated police officer stands within a cone-shaped icon (to depict the cone of plausibility). The officer is surrounded by icons representing technology, such as drones and data symbols. In the top right corner, there's a logo reading "Science & Technology in Policing," featuring interconnected nodes as part of the design.

By Annie Estlin, OPCSA The Office of the Police Chief Scientific Adviser (OPCSA), through GO-Science's co-funding opportunity, commissioned a report to explore emerging science and technology trends for UK policing. The pace of technological change continues to accelerate. Previously, technologies …

How merging creative design and futures at Defra led to collaborative strategic insights

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By Emma Mutch, Defra Introduction Defra, in collaboration with Andthen, shares insights into how it developed a new horizon scanning capability and emerging trends and global megatrends outputs. Unique approaches and methods were used in this work, notably a highly …

Futures on the Fast-Stream: how futures training and resources influenced my work

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Licence: Creative Commons Attribution Tatiana Sirikova, free use from Pexels By Jack Thirlwell, Migration Strategy Team Leader, Population and Migration Division, Directorate for Culture and External Affairs, Scottish Government In this blog, Jack shares how learning about futures has supported …

Integrating futures thinking in the Crown Prosecution Service

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by Rose Cowley and Alex Scott How can you focus on tomorrow’s challenges when today’s are so all-encompassing? Like many operational agencies across the Civil Service, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) continues to operate in the long and difficult shadow …