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Interns wanted

Posted by: Sam Patel and Rebecca Nohl, Posted on: 10 July 2018 - Categories: 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 …

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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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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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Will there be enough graduate jobs in the next 10 years?

Posted by: Professor Francis Green, Posted on: 18 July 2017 - Categories: Skills
Many students wearing graduation caps from above.

Especially since the surge in university and college enrolments around 1990, Britain's workforce has become very much more educated.

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Working collaboratively across government departments

Posted by: Fiona Thom, Posted on: 10 July 2017 - Categories: Ageing
The charts show the proportion of males and females in the population at a single age from 50 to 70 who are either employed, unemployed or inactive. The proportion of males and females that are inactive increases with age.

How the Government Office for Science helped my team to develop the government’s approach to fuller working lives.

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Better workplaces mean better learning

Posted by: Professor Alan Felstead and Professor Lorna Unwin, Posted on: 13 June 2017 - Categories: Skills

Learning occurs in all workplaces as part of everyday activity. So why do some workplaces create more learning opportunities than others?

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New ideas for marine autonomy

Posted by: James Gleave, Posted on: 31 March 2017 - Categories: Sea
Images relating to the sea that were used at the workshop. For example: wind turbines, waves, flags.

Whilst autonomy in cars currently gets the limelight, there is a big opportunity for the UK in marine autonomy.

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How will an ageing population change the way we work?

Posted by: Charles Jans, Posted on: 15 February 2017 - Categories: Ageing
Employment rate by type of employment and by age in the UK, 2014. There is a sharp decline in employment rate from around 52 years for people who are employees. There is a gentler decline in the employment rate of self-employed people from about the same age.

Our working lives are becoming longer as the UK population ages.

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Data for our future selves

Posted by: Professor Jeremy Myerson, Posted on: 10 February 2017 - Categories: Ageing
2D visualisation of Figure 7.2 from Foresight's Future of an Ageing population project report. The chart shows how horizons shrink for the over 70s with fewer miles travelled, and how commuting falls away the older you get.

How Foresight data has found its way into a national design museum.

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