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 …
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...
...right organisation. For full details on how to use this technique and an example of a 7 Questions interview, check out GO-Science’s Futures Toolkit. Try using the 7 Questions technique...
...been looking at how technology can help address the challenges associated with ageing. We talked to technology companies, innovative care providers, carers and representatives of older people. Much of this...
...either a practitioner or a client. Horizon Scanning is more about asking the ‘unasked questions’ or identifying the “unknown unknowns” (after Donald Rumsfeld). Don’t negate the need for a champion...
...for? The Futures Toolkit These are some of the questions that the Government Office for Science’s Futures Toolkit sets out to help answer. The Toolkit is a resource that sets...
How advances in brain science and artificial intelligence could transform our mental health and wellbeing.
Professor Susan Jebb on what’s changed since Foresight published their report on Obesity 10 years ago, and what we can still learn from it.
...Community Learning Survey Report, 2013). Why should this be? First, women are more likely to be employed in the public sector, which tends to offer more in the way of...
...maritime services industry based in London. Increased Arctic shipping may indirectly increase the utilisation of these sectors. Finally, the UK’s active diplomatic role in many international organisations means it is...