The Government Office for Science team highlight findings from their recent report concerning four global trends expected to shape the future of citizen data systems.
2020 marks 25 years since Foresight published the first panel reports. We’ve worked under seven Government Chief Scientific Advisors and six Prime Ministers. We’ve adapted our approach to suit the policy making culture of the day, and the prevailing issues …
The visual format and systematic structure of roadmaps supports communication of strategy and integration of Futures methods into coherent toolkits.
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.
Find out how a debate at the Centre for Ageing Better made our colleague think about how changes in mobility will influence the future of ageing.
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.
The Government Office for Science’s Scan of Scans resource is available to help those in government and elsewhere to think about how trends from a variety of themes could affect policy areas in the future. This is the first in …
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 …
In this second instalment of our Emerging Technology (EmTech) blog series we are exploring some new technologies for agriculture. This series covers some of the innovative and exciting technologies the Government Office for Science’s (GOS) EmTech Scanning Programme has identified. …
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 …