9 Other Activities and Media Outputs

1998 Interview with David Fishlock, published as How Knowledge-based Services Manage their Intellectual Property Intellectual Property Initiative interview no 9, London: Intellectual Property Institute

1996 Contribution on "Reinvention" to Henley Centre CD-ROM, Media Futures
London, Henley Centre, ISBN 1 898199 54 X

1996 appearance in video and CD-ROM of European Social Policy Forum
Brussels, European Commission, DGV

Book reviews and extremely short notes and comments have only been recorded since they became relevant in UFC Research Assessment exercises. Earlier short reviews were published in numerous journals and magazines, including New Scientist, Sociology, Current Psychology, New Technology Work & Employment, Times Higher Education Supplement, Futures, Electronics Times, Computer Weekly, Project Appraisal, and the Economic Journal.

Electronic media appearances have generally taken the form of broadcast interviews: these have been featured on Open University programmes, and scientific and educational services of BBC national and local, and overseas radio stations. However, there have been some exceptions. One TV programme (1988) featured reenactments of the interview research used in the unemployment studies of the mid-1980s; and some of the written material from these studies was recorded onto optical disc as part of the Domesday Project. The ESPRIT QLIS project over 1990-92 involved among other things the preparation of text material ('dataware') for a computer decision aid, as well as work in designing this hypermedia system. In 1990 I participated in a roundtable discussion on IT in a radio 4 series "Science Friction", in 1995 I was one member of a roundtable (talking about active badges) in BBC Radio’s "The Afternoon Shift", and was interviewed for several news programmes in 1996.

Major Activities since 1992

2002 · · a busy year so far!
Scenario Worskhop speaker and facilitator for ESRC: Genomics and Social Science Priorities January 16, 17. ·
Participant, presenter at three European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions workshops in Dublin on "Knowledge Society", December 2001, March 6-7 2002, May 27-28 2002. · February 7-8,
presenter at ESTO general Assembly, Seville · March 12-14,
invited speaker at conference on E-CRM (electronic customer relationship management) Espoo, Finland ·
Participant in "Innovation Policy and Regulatory Reform" workshop, near Barcelona, 11-12 March ·
30 April: presentation of "Practical Guide to Regional Foresight v2" to expert group in Brussels. ·
11-12 April: guest lecture at University of Hohenheim, Germany, in Knowledge Intensive Business Services. ·
8 July: presentation on Foresight and Scenarios to international workshop on this theme in Brussels. (In May I presented a lecture on similar lines to the PREST Foresight workshop.)

2001. · Presented paper, discussant of DPhil projects, at Postgraduate Summer School organised by Roskilde University, Denmark, on theme of Innovation in Services, May 3-5 2001 · Reviewer and Discussant of Project on Technology Assessment, presented at ESTO workshop in Brussels, May 2001. · Presentation on Scenario Analysis and Foresight to Hungarian Technology Foresight programme conference, Budapest, May 2001. · speaker and scenario workshop leader at workshop on Nanotechnology in the UK in 2006 organised for Director General of Research Councils by CRIC, IoN and NPL, London, October

2000 · member of expert scientific committee for European Competitiveness Report 2000 · member of scientific committee for conference in Lille, France, Economics and Socioeconomics of Services; panel chair and plenary panel member, June 22-23 2000 · chair of one workshop meeting at IPTS Futures Project conference in Brussels, February · chair of one afternoon's session at CRIC/Consumers Association conference on E-Commerce, London, June 15-16 2000 · speaker and group leader at workshop on IT in the UK in 2005 workshop organised for Director General of Research Councils by CRIC and ESRC, London, February · invited speaker at conferences in Luxembourg (March Employment in Information Society, Nijmeigen (June Innovation in the Knowledge Economy), London (July :Local Food Retailing Conference), · invited speaker at Italian Civil Service training programme on Foresight, Rome, July 2000-06-26 invited discussant at Cambridge Econometrics conference on E-commerce: understanding the economic implications, Cambridge, July 6 2000 · editor, special issue International Journal of Innovation Management special issue on Innovation in Services · joined editorial board of International Journal of Services Technology and Management as European editor

1999 · seminar series "The Information Society" in PREST MSC course - this runs in subsequent years · keynote lecture on "Cybereconomics" at Exploring Cybersociety conference in Newcastle, July 1999 · lectures "Facilitating Foresight" and "Analysing Foresight" in FORESIGHT course held in Manchester, July 1999 · invited speaker at FLEXCOT conference in Brussels, December

1998 · seminar series "The Information Society" in PREST · February: presentation "Innovation in the Service Economy" to Technology Strategy Forum, London · March: CNR, Rome, Conference on Unemployment and Low Activity in Italy March 201998 (discussant and presenter of paper) · March: CRIC workshop Services and Systems (discussant, chair, presented paper) · May: discussant at OST Foresight conference, Chancleeors, Manchester · May: CRIC workshop Services and Innovation Measurement (discussant, chair, presented paper) · September: "EDI as Service innovation" at Electronic Commerce seminar, Manchester Town hall (accompanying G8 Electronic Commerce meeting) · September: Austrian Science Policy Society Workshop, Vienna: presented paper on Foresight Implementation · September: Constructing Tomorrow conference, Bristol: keynote speech - "Services, Innovation & Knowledge". · October, European Association of Social Studies of Science and Technology conference, Lisbon: "Foresight: beyond the tech fix". · November, SITRA Innovation Systems conference, Helsinki, - "Services in National Innovation Systems: from Traditional Services to Knowledge Intensive Business Services". · November, IPTS Futures project Policy Workshop, Brussels: facilitator.

1997 · director of CRIC (continuing in subsequent years) · chaired session at ASTPP Conference on Industrial Uses of Foresight, TA and Evaluation, University of Manchester, Sept 1997 · "Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Research: Contexts and Challenges" Presented at PREST 20th Anniversary Conference, Science, Technology and Innovation Policy for the 21st Century University of Manchester, September 1997 · "Multimedia in the Melting Pot: Moulding Products and Shaping Frameworks" presented (with K Flanagan) at COST A4 International Conference on Social Shaping of Multimedia, Edinburg, 28-29 June · "Services: Invisible Innovators?" presented at Conference on Service Sector Productivity and the Productivity Paradox Ottawa, April 11-12 · presentation on "Prospective Studies: a critical review of methods and approaches" at IPTS, Seville · speaker (8 lectures) in summer school on "The Information Society" in Tampere Finland (August) · "Worlds in Collision: Social Shapers and Research on Social Shaping" presentation at COST A4 concluding Conference on Social Shaping of Technology, Copenhagen, October 1997 · two presentations in Budapest, Hungary, 3rd December 1997 - both on the UK Foresight Programme; one to the Hungarian foresight Steering Group, Office of Technology; one to an invited audience at British Science Day, held at the British Embassy and organised by the British Council. · December: interview for BBC World Service (Turkish section) series on Implications of IT, discussing new ways of working (telework and CSCW).

1996 · presented papers: "Innovation in Services - and Services in Innovation" to Manchester Statistical Society, 20 Feb 1996; "Innovation in the Service Sector" to CROMTEC, UMIST 20 Feb 1996; · background issues paper and rapporteur's paper and presentations for European Social Policy Forum, a large EC DGV event (over 100 delegates) in Brussels, March 1996; and similar rapporteur role at People First conference (EC DGV) Dublin Castle, Sept 30-Oct 1st 1996 · presentations of papers in Brussels at EC workshops on The Targeted Socio-Economic Research Programme and Systems of Innovation: Implications for the Framework Programme May 1996, Brussels · "Technology Foresight as a Policy Tool in a Knowledge-Based Economy" presented at ASTPP Conference on Science and Technology for Tomorrow's society Amsterdam, 1 November 1996 organised by TNO-STB, Twente University, and Dutch Foresight Steering Committee. · presented "Science, Technology and Development: Brazil in the New Context" at Science, Technology and Development Conference organised by Brazilian Embassy at King's College, London, Sept 24-5 1996 · Interviewed by Radio 5 breakfast financial programme on attituides to new technology, Jan 1996; interviewed by BBC World Service Europe on long-term future February 1996 · paper "Cyberspace as Product Space: Interactive Learning about Interactive Media"presented at iTV'96 Conference in Edinburgh, September 1996

1995: · Consultant to OECD on development of new survey instruments to assess service sector innovation; two presentations in Paris on this theme. · Consultant to European Foundation (Dublin) on Socio-Economic Aspects of the Environment Programme. · Member of a roundtable discussion (talking about active badges) in BBC Radio's "The Afternoon Shift", 29 June 1995. · Presentations on "Technology Foresight" to senior New Zealand civil servants (Staff College, Bristol, June) and to 5th European Doctoral Summer School in Technology Management (Manchester Business Scool, August). · Paper at PICT International Conference, London, May. · Paper at SPSG meeting in Brussels.

1994: · presented invited paper on "Characteristics and Dynamics of Contemporary Technological Revolutions" as kick-off presentation at SAREC (Swedish Development Research Agency) International Seminar on Development Aid Policy Approaches to New Generic Technologies in Stockholm, April 20-21. This was a large workshop aimed at professsionals concerned with aid for technology and organisational development. · I gave a seminar in April (22nd) on "Management and Environmental Policy" for The British Council course 9441 on Science and Technology Policy: key issues and strategies - an international seminar in Manchester · Presented lecture on "New Technologies and Domestic Revolution" at School of Advanced Urban Studies 21st anniversary conference, Housing for the 21st Century · Presented invited paper on "Infrastructure and the Development of New Services" to OECD/Danish government conference in Copenhagen, November . · Facilitator for "Sustainable Urban Living" Scenario Workshop in Preston, Lancs for two days in April. · Facilitator for the Transport Sector Panel of the UK Office of Science and Technology's Technology Foresight Programme, from spring 1994 into 1995; included presentations at two regional workshops, preparation of Panel Interim report and of Delphi survey analayses for Final Report.

1993: · On July 8th 1993 I was a discussant at Cambridge Econometrics' Conference on Structural Change in the Service Industries, held at Robinson College, Cambridge. I presented a thirty minute commentary on Dr Terence Barker's paper on "The Impact of Accelerated Productivity Growth in Services". · I was asked to coordinate the development of a Futures Quality Initiative by a meeting on Strategic Prospective convened at the EC Joint Research centre at ISPRA. · I participated in CEST workshops on transport and communications.

1992: · I was the keynote speaker for the Advance Western Australia Fair in Perth in May, a large-scale convention attracting some 100,000 members of the public over three days. I presented papers on consumer technology and changing patterns of employment and unemployment there, and participated in a round-table of futurists. I was interviewed on Perth radio, and gave a second presentation of the latter paper to a workshop organised by the Department of Community Services at the Claremont Superdrome. While in Australia I also gave talks at the Commission for the Future and the Union Research Centre on New Office Technologies, both in Melbourne. · I was an invited speaker at NordDATA '92, the annual conference of Nordic IT professionals, held at Tampere (Finland) in June, where I gave one lecture: "Bringing Computer Power to the Consumer Market". I was also an invited lecturer for CEST's "Transport and Communications" Programme's kick-off meeting at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in London in June (and have participated in this group's subsequent workshops). Finally, I gave a seminar in October on "A Framework for Services Innovation" as part of PREST's external seminar series, and another in November on "Management and Environmental Policy" for The British Council course 9253 on Science and Technology Policy: key issues and strategies - an international seminar in Manchester. · A major mission was undertaken in September-October 1992, where I was a member of a ten-person expert group called in to provide a plan of action for the social sciences in Switzerland, by the Swiss Science Council. This involved interviewing major players in Swiss social science, and in its user and funding organisations, and preparation of a report - in which I shared responsibility with A Elsinga for drafting the section on policy recommendations, and prepared the final edited version. The main proposals of this action plan were widely debated - and in some cases mplemened, in Switzerland. I was the subject of an interview and profile in the journal 21-C (issue 4), in a series on "The Futurists"; and was invited onto its Editorial Board in 1992. (However, the Australian Commission on the Future, which was responsible for the journal, seems to have become moribund, so no activity has resulted from this appointment.) Also in 1992, Futures has set up an editorial advisory team (of 'consulting editors') in addition to its editorial board, to provide more intensive inputs as to the journal content and direction,and I am on both. I have also been appointed to the scientific council of the French organisation Futuribles in 1992. Numerous and varying committee and subcommittee roles ongoing.