Futures thinking and research for 21st century challenges
Governance of new technologies
Congratulations to Dr Koichi Mikami who was recently awarded the DPhil for his doctoral thesis, a comparative study of tissue engineering research in the UK and Japan. He will be moving to Japan to take a position as an assistant professor at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKEN).More..
A House of Commons report issued today on The Regulation of Geoengineering makes extensive use of recommendations put forth by a UK-based team of scholars, including Steve Rayner, Director of the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society.More..
The 21st Century School seminar series for Hilary 2010 is being organised by CABDyN and the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society.More..
Dr Owen Petchey, a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield gave the final seminar in the 21st Century School’s series on “Complexity and Systemic Risk” titled "Contagious Extinctions and Ecosystem Collapse." Read a blog post and watch a video of the seminar.More..
What are the differences between traditional corporate structures and mutually- or employee-owned organisations? At the final GAIn seminar of Hilary Term, Jonathan Michie posed a number of challenging questions about the role of varied ownership structures within the economy.More..
Eve Chiapello gave a talk as part of the GAIn seminar series examining the inter-locking histories of accounting and economics.More..
How can complexity science play a role in social policy? Dirk Helbing of ETH Zurich argues that physics, maths and computer science can make a vital contribution to understanding social science, collective behaviour and the nature of cooperation.More..
Six projects from across Oxford and Oxford Brookes will receive funding under the Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities to look at the social, technological and climatic changes cities face over the next fifty years.More..