Projects
Futures in the future
Our members are developing multiple collaborative projects within King’s and with partners at universities, government agencies and civil society organisations. These include:
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.
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.
How We Fear
This project seeks to develop the most comprehensive dataset to date of academic research examining how individuals and communities perceive a wide range of security threats, from nuclear risks to emerging challenges such as climate change, AI, and human augmentation.
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.
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, which we hope to publish by early 2026.
Space War Scenarios
FTL contributes space war scenarios to multiple research projects within King’s and the UK space community.
