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Welcome to Foresight

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Internships available

Foresight has openings for three graduate interns, find out more about both jobs on the Directgov graduate talent pool pages.

manufacturing

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Manufacturing project lead experts announced

The project on The Future of Manufacturing announced their Lead Expert Group, with Sir Richard Lapthorne appointed as chair.

disasters

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New project on disasters announced

A new Foresight project investigating how to improve anticipation of and resilience to disasters is announced by the Government Chief Scientific Adviser, Sir John Beddington.

Our role is to help government think systematically about the future

We use the latest scientific and other evidence combined with futures analysis to tackle complex issues and help policy makers make decisions affecting our future.

Our work makes a critical contribution to meeting important challenges of the 21st century - such as food security, flooding and obesity.

Foresight reports directly to the Government Chief Scientific Adviser and the Cabinet Office. It is a part of the Government Office for Science within the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills.

Foresight projects

Foresight Projects are in-depth studies examining major issues 20-80 years in the future.

Foresight current projects are:

Policy Futures Projects

A shorter kind of Foresight project that will help UK policy-makers deliver key policy agendas by providing futures and evidence analysis to fill a specific gap in existing understanding.

Horizon Scanning Centre

The Foresight Horizon Scanning Centre does short projects looking at discrete issues across the entire public policy spectrum.

Our toolkits and networks look to strengthen futures thinking capacity and share best practice within and across government.

Learn more about what the Foresight Horizon Scanning Centre does: