Topics

Shaping your future

  • Using Futures Thinking and Strategic Foresight to envision and shape futures: imagining what’s possible then taking action to turn it into reality.
  • Understand what’s happening today by analysing signals and identifying drivers.
  • Visualise possible, probable and preferable futures.
  • Creating strategy and action roadmaps to nudge towards desired futures, and to be prepared and resilient.

Future of Universities & Higher Education

  • Satisfying stakeholders, honouring history and finding a future. The challenges for universities.
  • The role and responsibilities of academics in society.
  • Universities as dual-sector institutions: Balancing Education and Training.
  • The student experience.
  • Are degree programmes the way of the future?

Future of Scientific Research

  • Technology in Research: If and when will there be science without scientists?
  • The benefits and risks of the democratisation and decentralisation of scientific research.
  • Disruption. The impact of disruption on governance, funding, employment, careers, communication, and translation. Where will research be performed in future, how, why, and by whom?

Biotechnology and biomedical sciences

  • Biotechnology: The benefits and risks of modifying living organisms.
  • Vaccine development in the 21st century.
  • Immunology; virology; microbiology; biochemistry, other biomedical topics.

Learning and Knowledge in the Information Age

  • Who needs to know what? How can we learn and teach with digital tech? What knowledge does one need to thrive when information is everywhere?
  • Critical thinking and the scientific method, applying the tools of science to comprehend everyday information.

Future of Leadership

  • The changing role of the leader.
  • Skills and skills development pathways for tomorrow’s leaders.
  • Managing human and AI teams.

Presentation Literacy

  • Skills to learn and practice for effectively communicating your ideas.
  • Finding the approach that’s right for you: delivering your unique message with your authentic voice.

Emerging Technologies

  • Introduction to emerging technologies.
  • The exponential impact of emerging and converging technologies.
  • The relationship between technology and society, our personal relationship with technology.
  • Avoiding unintended consequences of technology by aligning intent with impact.

Other topics I write and speak about

  • Gender equality.
  • This sporting life.
  • Personal productivity.
  • Self-improvement.