Projects

Our members are developing multiple collaborative projects within King’s and with partners at universities, government agencies and civil society organisations. These include:

Resilience in North East England

In partnership with the Centre for Statecraft and National Security and Newcastle University, FTL has an ongoing research project on improving resilience to hybrid threats in North East England, a region of increasing strategic importance yet significant societal vulnerabilities.

Forecasting Slavery in War

FTL members lead futures and foresight research in the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, developing innovative methods for anticipating the evolution of slavery practices within conflict zones.

Photo of a war-torn city with ruined buildings and smoky clouds in the background, viewed through barbed wire fences.
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Future of AI in Policing

This project examines how future threats and challenges are being imagined in the field of policing, and how these compare with futures of warfare. The aim is to determine how, if at all, these visions of future threats and challenges in policing converge or diverge with those in warfare, and what this means for ongoing police militarisation and state-society relations.

Inequality Knocks

In partnership with the Fairness Foundation and the King’s Policy Institute, FTL designs high-level, future-oriented workshops on the intersection of wealth inequality and the most serious social and security challenges of our time.

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Space War Scenarios

FTL contributes space war scenarios to multiple research projects within King’s and the UK space community.

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Nuclear Futures
The Nuclear Futures initiative aims to build bridges between nuclear studies and future studies, in order to better understand and navigate an increasingly uncertain and complex strategic environment. One of its main projects is the Nuclear War Scenarios Dataset.