Focus: our research themes
The focus of our research is the future, which is unknown and unknowable'; that is, it is uncertain.
We acknowledge and seek to accommodate uncertainty in its causative forms of volatility, ambiguity, complexity, aleatory and epistemic risk as well as ontologic uncertainty.
Q.
How, when our research themes cover such a vast spread of human knowledge and experience, is it realistic to claim to be focused?
A.
By having clear conceptual threads running through what we do. Let us explain.
Focus: our broad research themes
Time & space
Everything we do occurs within the dimensions and contours of time and space. As Orwell pithily summed up: “who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
Science & technology & society
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The meso world: Institutions
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Reason, inference, knowledge, uncertainty & belief in a social world
How do we come to believe what we believe?
People, behaviour, & action
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Government, states & conflict
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Change, disruption & progress
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
The natural world
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The public sphere, political economy & public policy
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. . . and supporting those broader themes
Capture, crises, contradictions & carbon
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.