Technologies for when I’m ‘old’
...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...
The Ten Commandments of Horizon Scanning
...called the Ten Commandments of Horizon Scanning at the UK’s Operational Research Society. It was a personal perspective based upon my own experiences of carrying out and leading Horizon Scanning[1]...
Making sense of the future
...purpose – gathering intelligence about the future, exploring the dynamics of change, describing what the future might be like and developing and testing policy and strategy. Each procedure is set...
What next for mental health and wellbeing?
How advances in brain science and artificial intelligence could transform our mental health and wellbeing.
Dusting off Foresight’s obesity report
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.
Women and lifelong learning: falling short of meritocracy
...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...
What opening Arctic sea routes mean for the UK
The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else and sea ice is retreating. What does this mean for the UK, the Arctic’s nearest neighbour?
How can Britain produce economically valuable skills?
Britain has struggled to produce economically valuable skills for over 130 years. How can this be fixed?
Will there be enough graduate jobs in the next 10 years?
Especially since the surge in university and college enrolments around 1990, Britain's workforce has become very much more educated.
Working collaboratively across government departments
How the Government Office for Science helped my team to develop the government’s approach to fuller working lives.