Events & Activities
Futures on the move
Our members undertake a range of events and activities, including conference presentations, workshops for government and civil society organisations, and public seminars. Forthcoming events will be shared here and on the Department of War Studies events page.
On 13 June 2025, the Future Threats Lab, the Fairness Foundation and the Policy Institute at King's College London convened a one-day workshop examining how wealth inequality exacerbates the risks and impacts of extreme heat in the UK. The workshop explored how inequality interferes with the UK's preparedness, response and adaptation planning for extreme heat events. The findings will be published shortly.
On 28 May 2025, the Nuclear War Scenario Design Workshop was held as part of King’s Wargaming Week, hosted by the Future Threats Lab and the Nuclear Futures Project at King’s College London. The event gathered scholars and practitioners to explore nuclear futures through scenario design. Participants discussed nuclear scenario archetypes, critical trends, and design best practices, then collaborated in small groups to create credible, policy-relevant nuclear war scenarios.
On 1 November 2024, the Fairness Foundation, the Future Threats Lab at the Department of War Studies, and the Policy Institute at King’s College London convened a one-day workshop for 25 senior stakeholders from the worlds of politics, government, academia, business and civil society. Its purpose was to examine the evidence for the serious risks — perhaps even catastrophic risks — posed by wealth inequality in the UK to our society, economy, democracy and environment, and for the ways in which those risks can be mitigated through government policy.
We produced a report on the workshop findings, which was featured in The Guardian and other press.
Jeni Mitchell has been appointed Deputy Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War. She will co-lead the Forecasting strand. The new centre will be the first overarching and integrative attempt to understand the slavery–war nexus as it has evolved historically and up to the present.
In September 2024, Jeni Mitchell and Pablo de Orellana presented ‘The Future is Human’ at Methods Con 2024, hosted by the National Centre for Research Methods in Manchester.
In September 2024, Jeni attended an academic workshop on The Future of UK Military Space at RAF Fylingdales, home to the UK’s ballistic missile early warning service and space monitoring programme.
In July 2024, Jeni participated in the department’s first Widening Participation Summer School, leading a futures workshop for local secondary school students.
In May 2024, the Future Threats Lab organised a Defence Futures workshop in which colleagues from the School of Security Studies and external partners evaluated key scenarios within the newest edition of the flagship publication Global Strategic Trends.