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Live Research

What is Live Research?

The world around us is changing everyday in a blizzard of transient news headlines. But what are the deeper patterns and signals in the noise? What might they mean for how we live, create, consume, collaborate, and work? How are the deeper systems that we rely on shifting? Where might be the best places to intervene to accelerate change for sustainability? What might we be caught out by in the long term?

Live Research projects are designed to focus conversation on a specific challenge or question, engaging the platform’s global community and others in sharing thoughts, insights and perspectives on the issues that matter most.

Who is this for?

Anyone interested in exploring a sustainability challenge with a futures focus

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Over the course of a Live Research project you will gain:

Connections at the cutting edge of the chosen topic area
Ability to galvanise engagement from specific members of the Futures Centre community
Research and insights, with consolidating briefings

Space to test ideas with experts and interested parties
Opportunity-spotting for strategy and innovation
Reputation as a thought-leader driving sustainability in practice

How to run a Live Research project?

If you have a challenge in mind, commissioning a unique and bespoke Live Research project on the Futures Centre will help you tap into diverse perspectives across multiple markets – engaging with audiences in creative ways from online debates and webinars to social media and in-person workshops.

Beyond that, you’ll have a dedicated team at international sustainability non-profit, Forum for the Future, providing systemic analysis of all insights, and making the recommendations that will help inform your work.

Interested? It all starts with a conversation.

Get in touch to explore the future with us

Live Research is a space dedicated to running participatory futures projects that focus on addressing specific challenges, inquiries and research questions.

Beyond greenhouse gases: Transforming project design through impact measurement

Beyond Greenhouse Gases: Transforming project design through impact measurement project will explore how businesses can unlock more transformative project design and decision making, through the lens of greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction. Over the next four months, we will be publishing a series of insights and podcasts on an ongoing basis exploring the world of carbon accounting, climate impacts, futures thinking, and project design.

The resilient health system of the future – the case for community health

How can we use learnings from COVID-19 to reshape our health systems to be more proactive, responsive, equitable, and community-centered? Join this live research to explore the role of community health.

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