11.30, Thursday 15 March 2018
Stanmer Park Brighton
Outside Brighton
The Academy of Medical Sciences is undertaking a horizon scanning project to identify key areas of scientific research and innovation for the future.
This is one of six half-day workshops at locations around the UK, bringing together Academy Fellows, grant awardees and forward-thinking experts from a range of backgrounds. Together, we will ask them to think forward to the year 2048 to explore what might become the most transformative areas of scientific research and innovation, and how they might affect society. The outputs from the Academy's horizon scanning project will inform our work both in the UK and internationally, including policy, future scientific meetings, and collaborations with medical researchers, funders and other stakeholders.
This will be a 'Wild Workshop' in Stanmer Park organised with School of the Wild. We'll be taking attendees out of the city and into the wild for a horizon scanning session around the fire. This workshop includes an optional foraging session before the horizon scanning discussions where you'll learn about edible wild plants and cook them up into something to eat from our harvest. Thursday 15 March 2018. |
Themes
The workshops will explore topics from both basic and clinical research, from both technical and social perspectives, seeking the ideas that will transform society by 2048. The themes that emerged from the survey will be used as starting topics to inform discussions at the workshops. As attendees bring their range of backgrounds and expertises into the interdisclinary discussions, we expect the workshops to move into new areas and bring out new themes, priorities and ideas.
Participants are not expected to be experts in specific areas of research – instead we welcome the diversity of opinion people bring by approaching discussions from a range of backgrounds, particularly as we explore wider societal impacts and expectations.
Brighton starting topics will be: data and artificial intelligence, non-communicable diseases and deprivation.
Other information
Other workshops will take place in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, Cambridge and Birmingham. Click on the locations for details on each workshop. Click on the locations for more details. A limited number of bursaries to cover costs for all workshops are available.
For more information about this project’s activities - including details on the initial survey, themes and other workshops - please visit the horizon scanning project page.