...Katherine Prince Purpose This paper reflects on the author’s experience of an education foundation’s developing a robust and nationally recognized futures studies practice over a period of 14 years. In so doing, this paper aims to inform other futures studies practitioners about the kinds...

...Dr Roberto Poli; Cristiano Vezzoni Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of secondary analysis to social sciences and to futures studies, both for research and teaching purposes. Design/methodology/approach – An illustration of the main characteristics of secondary...

...Roberto Poli; Roberto Poli Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explain why finding a theory for futures studies is such a demanding task. In particular, the paper paves the way towards a theoretical framework that goes beyond both positivism and anti‐positivism. Design/methodology...

... Foresight Rise of Chindia Peer‐to‐peer Wikipedia Futures studies In the University in Transformation (Inayatullah and Gidley, 2000), an anthology of articles on the futures of the university published ten years ago, we – Jennifer Gidley and I – identified four critical drivers creating the futures...