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Open Access Futures Journal
futures journals (below) might have interest or initiative underway towards open access pre-prints which could presumably complement their business models
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Low-Residency Futures PhD
. Encourages program students to publish in and cite the existing Primary Futures Studies / Strategic Foresight journals as part of the PhD
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Feb 18 2008, 6:37 PM EST by
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Futures Journals
Dear John,
I agree that publishing would be an important endeavour. However, there are a group of practitiuoners who are not catered for in the exsiting range of print journals. I was surprised, when becoming involved in the Shaping Tomorrow Network, at how large this community is. My vision is that we reach out to give this community a voice. We can do this by:
1. Accepting that "journalistic" articles (this is a term of abuse in the UK) can advance our knowledge. The academic journals tend to be pompous and condescending. I would hope that we can avoid that trap.
2. Focusing on future possibilities rather than future predictions. I have stopped sending work to the WFS publications because they are only interested in forecasts rather than possibilities.
3. Avoiding comment on the content of the articles. Many European pieces are failing in peer review because many Europeans do not share the same values as US peer reviewers (e.g. the market may not be the best form of resource allocation, individual freeedom may have to be circumscribed for the collective good, etc.).
For these reasons, I feel that we should occupy the space left unoccupied by the existing journals.
With best wishes,
Stephen
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Jan 13 2008, 7:12 AM EST by
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Foresight PhD options, both formal and informal, and: 4. Learning how to set up an Open Access Futures Journal for FS pubs, and educating
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U of Manchester
. FS-Related Faculty at U Manchester: U Man has, by far, the most broad based and institutionally connected futures faculty of any of the low residency
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Tamkang U
Tamkang faculty associated with GIFS, and they have a publication, the Journal of Futures Studies . This and their special history (see below) make
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Foresight Frameworks
The key elements of any educational domain, including strategic foresight/futures studies can be grouped into: 1. Frameworks (or "Learning
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Just identifying myself
This is really important for Futures Studies in general. It seems a bit crazy tat we don't have such a program going somewhere.
I did manage to get a PhD centred upon Futures Studies in Low Residency fashion. However it is officially in Policy Studies, from the University of the Sunshine Coast, in QLD, Australia. Noted futurist Sohail Inayatullah was my supervisor. Basically my PhD is in critical futures, which is an analytical branch of Futures which employs postcritical theory to examine various subject matters. I looked at theories of mind and intelligence, and modern education systems. However I now write quite a bit in Futures journals on a number of different topics, and starting to do a bit of work for www.shapingtomorrow.com. I also have a book coming out v. soon, based on my thesis.
I have found it a bit frustrating as far as getting work out of my PhD goes. I've applied for at least 50 academic jobs. It would be good if there were programs that had closer links to industry and education, so graduates like me had the connections to actually use their Futures knowledge. I have a lot of knowledge and skills that are presently going to waste teaching public high school English! I would be happy to help out in any way that I can.
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Jan 30 2008, 8:06 PM EST by
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A Reflective Moment
Hello, This is Nelson R. (Buzz) Kellogg, and I was also invited by John to join in. I think the proposal is fine. However, I am a bit inspired by, both Jen Watkins comment, as well as by Peter Bishop's admonition to contribute to the cohesion and growth of future studies. My comment may seem a rather strong tonic, but here goes anyway.
Virtually every field of endeavor has cadres who purport to study the future, and write those prognostications for their patrons. To avoid the entire concept of future-studies becoming just a guild, who rents out its capacity for tasked research-and-report (with error-bars), one might ask what it is that both generalists and interdsiciplinarians can offer, that is different from a contract forecast which an agency might purchase from RAND or SRI. I do not have a magical answer, although what I would suggest does perhaps share some qualities with the proverbial "philosopher's stone."
As a trained historian, who thinks much about the future, it seems that one quality that is not currently being offered is actually a thing of the past. The style in science writing, when it was known as "natural philosophy," and which was epitomized in the work of Charles Darwin, is PERSUASIVE, LYRICAL exposition, which flowed directly from the naturalists' own journals. It seems that any program in futures studies that intends to offer something COMPELLING, that is not available from others who "think and write about the future, as a commodity," needs to include an up-to-date and appropriate version, of a grand tradition, sorely missed.\
Thanks, Buzz
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