Constructive conversations about our future

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Future society

View of the New Zealand flags flying in front of the parliament building, the Beehive, in Wellington.
update
19.08.2024  

Political transparency underpins public trust

Social cohesion & resilience
Democratic innovation
close-up partial view of person standing in a city bus
update
07.08.2024  
Deliberative forum on transport for Auckland
Democratic innovation
podcast
30.07.2024  
Reinventing democracy with John Gastil
Democratic innovation
event
29.07.2024  
Reinventing democracy conference summary
Democratic innovation

Human potential

Someone is holding a baby who has sandy feet
perspective
14.12.2023  

Ending child poverty

Wellbeing
Evidence to policy
update
07.12.2023  
Koi Tū hosts MP for Child Poverty Reduction 
Wellbeing
media release
06.12.2023  
Early investment key to ending disadvantage
Wellbeing
evidence brief
06.12.2023  
Early investment: A key to reversing intergenerational disadvantage and inequity in Aotearoa
Wellbeing

Navigating change

speech
30.08.2024  

The day the news dies - Raising the Bar event

Information environment
Neon Theme Visualization of Circuit Board CPU Processor
event
20.08.2024  
Public lecture: Technology and geopolitics in 2024
Technology futures
Close up view of microphones and recorders pointed at a person wearing a suit and tie.
event
06.05.2024  
Webinar: If not journalists, then who?
Information environment
discussion paper
01.05.2024  
If not journalists, then who?
Information environment

Informing policy

Flags of UN and EU stand in European council Building at Brussels, Belgium.
perspective
08.08.2024  

INGSA2024 in Kigali Rwanda

Evidence to policy
View of complex machinery like a particle accelerator at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research
speech
24.04.2024  
Policy making and the green transition
Evidence to policy
Hema Sridhar and Sir Peter Gluckman
media release
23.04.2024  
NZ researchers drive work on international AI framework 
Technology futures
Out of focus aerial shot of a crowd of people walking in a city.
update
28.03.2024  
Science system and university advisory groups announced
Long-term thinking

Our themes

Future society

Social cohesion & resilience
Democratic innovation

Human potential

Wellbeing
Education
Youth mental health

Navigating change

Information environment
Sustainability
NZ’s place in the world
Technology futures

Informing policy

Long-term thinking
Risk assessment
Evidence to policy
Science diplomacy
Trust in science

Our people

Sir PeterGluckman

Sir Peter Gluckman

Director

Dr Anne Bardsley

Deputy Director

Hema Sridhar

Senior Research Fellow (Government Relations, Technology and Foresight)

Dr Tatjana Buklijas

Associate Director – Academic

Kristiann Allen

Associate Director – Policy and International Engagement
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