General Clusters

The HSC have also published reports on eight science and technology "clusters". The purpose of the clusters is to provide a high level framework to stimulate and test thinking across government, and they cover such areas as body & mind sciences, nanotechnologies, and security. They have already been used in a number of departmental and cross-departmental pieces of analysis by, for example, HM Treasury, and used to inform the Government Office for Science's own work on, for example, public engagement on the wider implications of science and technology. For access to these reports, please click here.

Energy Reviews Published

As part of the build up to our current project on Sustainable Energy management in the Built Environment (SEMBE), we expect to publish on 4 January 2007 a set of study papers which provide a body of evidence about the state-of-the-art science and technology, and future possibilities, across a wide range of technical disciplines related to energy use and supply. They include social science evidence about behaviours related to energy use, as well as an overview of existing futures work on energy from the UK and around the world. For access to these reports, please visit the Foresight website in the new year.