Plastic pollution in the sea has pushed its way to the forefront of public opinion over the last few months. New research drives this publicity, with revelations that up to 93% of bottled water may contain microplastics1. This coupled with …
How the Foresight ageing project supported development of the Industrial Strategy Ageing Society Grand Challenge The PM recently announced the first Ageing Society Grand Challenge mission. She set us the challenge of ensuring everyone enjoys five extra healthy, independent years …
What do you think policy-making will look like in 2030? How can government make policy future-facing? In the Projects team in the Economic and Domestic Affairs Secretariat (EDS), these are the types of questions we regularly ask ourselves. Our team …
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.
Whilst autonomy in cars currently gets the limelight, there is a big opportunity for the UK in marine autonomy.
Our working lives are becoming longer as the UK population ages.
I attended a meeting with Sir Mark Walport recently where he said that academics need to work more effectively with government policymakers.