The role of Roadmapping in the Futures Toolkit
The visual format and systematic structure of roadmaps supports communication of strategy and integration of Futures methods into coherent toolkits.
Futures Capability & Resource
Graduates wanted: Apply now for the 2019 GOS Internship Programme
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Beatrice Freeman, Emerging Technology Projects Officer, GOS, Posted on:
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Emerging Technologies, Futures Capability & Resource
The Government Office for Science (GOS) is recruiting up to 20 graduate interns to work on a wide range of important high-profile science and policy issues. Hear from our 2018 cohort on working on Futures in GOS.
Behavioural Insights: Do experts know what they don’t know?
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Albertine Pegrum-Haram, Projects Officer, GOS and Sepi Latifi, Projects Officer, GOS, Posted on:
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Advice/Tips, Future Policy Network, Futures Capability & Resource
How susceptible are policy-makers to biases? Are policy-makers over-confident, under-confident, or are they “well-calibrated”? The Behavioural Insights Team can help to answer these questions.
Why should we think more actively about our travel choices?
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Jonathan Keating, Projects Officer, GOS and Janoh Ho, Projects Officer, GOS, Posted on:
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Futures Capability & Resource, Mobility
When you’re standing on the train platform, do you think about why you chose that route to work? How many other possible ways could there be to get to your destination? What is important to you when you’re making decisions - cost, convenience, flexibility, or perhaps you’re just looking for a detour …
The key to the future often lies in the past
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Jonathan Keating, Projects Officer, GOS, Posted on:
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Futures Capability & Resource
Interest in electric cars dates back as early as the 19th century. In 1884 inventor Thomas Parker developed and used an electric car for his commute in his hometown of Wolverhampton, and in the 1890s in New York electric taxis were …
Back to the Futures
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Abi Fafolu, Futures Projects Manager, GOS, Posted on:
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Advice/Tips, Ageing, Emerging Technologies, Futures Capability & Resource, Outreach, Skills, STEM
If you were to ask my teenage self what I’d be working on as an adult, it’s unlikely she would have said that I’d be a Futurist, able to tell her about the future beyond 2018. But whether it comes from …
Futures, Foresight and Horizon Scanning: Finding a Way Forward
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Charles Featherston, Head of Futures, GOS, Posted on:
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Advice/Tips, Emerging Technologies, Fast facts, Futures Capability & Resource
You’ve heard all about the benefits of Futures, Foresight and Horizon Scanning and you’re ready to get started. But exactly where do you begin? What resources are available and where do you find them? Who can you call to ask …
Working together to design future-facing policy
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Lizzie Greenhaigh and Joe Randall, Posted on:
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Futures Capability & Resource
What do you think policy-making will look like in 2030? How can government make policy future-facing? In the Projects team in the Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat (EDS), these are the types of questions we regularly ask ourselves. Our team …
Interns wanted
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Sam Patel and Rebecca Nohl, Posted on:
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Futures Capability & Resource, Skills
The Government Office for Science (GOS) are recruiting graduate interns to work on a wide range of important, high-profile science and policy issues. Two current interns talk about their experiences. Sam Patel, Futures and Foresight team intern I joined the …
What’s driving trade? DIT’s work on the Future of Trade
Henrik Jonströmer is Deputy Head of Strategic Research in the Department for International Trade (DIT). Who takes part in trade? What is traded? What helps trade happen? The forces that shape international trade are in a constant state of flux. …