One final observation for 2012: lots of future-oriented and futures-related research fields have progressed significantly over the past few years. These ought to be examined by futures practitioners (and will be part of my PhD research). Here’s a couple to watch: 1) Sociology of Expectations The Sociology of Expectations (SoE) has primarily developed in the …
Month: December 2012
PhD intentions and motivations
The past few days I’ve been reading Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can’t Predict the Future (Pilkey & Pilkey-Jarvis, 2007), and scanning Gareth Priday‘s Master’s thesis which reviews the recent growth in neuropsychology (along with other areas of psychological research) relevant to ‘mental time travel’ and explores what the implications for foresight might be. In …
PhD – all systems are go (starting Jan 2013)!
I am the grateful recipient of a PhD scholarship from the Institute for Sustainable Futures (@ UTS). Like most early stage PhD students I have a broad idea of what I want to research, which will no doubt be clarified and will evolve during the first 12 months: Working title: “Experiences and Practices of ‘Foresight’ …
Green movement an “abject failure”?
A great, provocative opinion piece appears in The Age today by the online editor of The Monthly, critiquing the green movement’s failure to-date “to convert scientific consensus [about global warming] into action”. The opening two paragraphs provide a sense of the overall message: IF THE civil rights movement were as unsuccessful as the environmental movement …