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What’s driving trade? DIT’s work on the Future of Trade

Posted by: Henrik Jonströmer, Posted on: 5 June 2018 - Categories: Futures Capability & Resource
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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...

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7 Questions Futures Technique

Posted by: Helen Shaw, Posted on: 1 May 2018 - Categories: Futures Capability & Resource

...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...

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Technologies for when I’m ‘old’

Posted by: Tom Wells, Head of Foresight, GOS, Posted on: 23 April 2018 - Categories: Ageing

...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...

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The Ten Commandments of Horizon Scanning

Posted by: Dr John Carney, Posted on: 8 March 2018 - Categories: Futures Capability & Resource

...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...

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Making sense of the future

Posted by: Alister Wilson, Posted on: 30 January 2018 - Categories: Futures Capability & Resource

...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...

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What next for mental health and wellbeing?

Posted by: Professor Barbara J. Sahakian, Posted on: 23 October 2017 - Categories: Mental health and wellbeing
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How advances in brain science and artificial intelligence could transform our mental health and wellbeing.

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Dusting off Foresight’s obesity report

Posted by: Professor Susan Jebb OBE, Posted on: 4 October 2017 - Categories: Obesity

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.

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Women and lifelong learning: falling short of meritocracy

Posted by: Professor Tom Schuller, Posted on: 24 August 2017 - Categories: Skills
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...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...

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What opening Arctic sea routes mean for the UK

Posted by: Dr Nathanael Melia, Posted on: 3 August 2017 - Categories: Sea

...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...

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How can Britain produce economically valuable skills?

Posted by: Assistant Professor Lynn Gambin and Terence Hogarth, Posted on: 25 July 2017 - Categories: Skills

Britain has struggled to produce economically valuable skills for over 130 years. How can this be fixed?

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