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Future of X labs

The Future of X labs are laboratory programmes of Labs, a platform of The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), each looking ahead at how one domain of work and life could change and what evidence that change needs. This page is the index of those programmes, with the charter and operating state of each. A lab is shown as chartered or operating only when a charter record exists; until then it is listed as in formation. Information and enquiries are open today.

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01Contents

Future of X labs in four parts.

In this dossier4 parts
  1. 01IndexLab programmes and their state
  2. 02StatesWhat each state means
  3. 03A charterWhat a lab charter is designed to contain
  4. 04ConnectionsWhere the labs connect
02Index

Lab programmes and their state.

It has no staff, budget, site or results until a charter is recorded.

03States

What each state means.

  1. 01

    Established

    The focus and questions are described. No charter has been adopted.

  2. 02

    Chartered

    A charter names the lab’s lead, host institution, scope, ethics arrangements and review plan.

  3. 03

    Operating

    Authorised experiments or challenges are under way, listed on the experiments page.

  4. 04

    Paused or closed

    Activity has stopped. Records and published evidence remain available.

04A charter

What a lab charter is designed to contain.

  • the questions the lab exists to answer and those outside its scope;
  • the lead, the host institution and the supervising body;
  • the methods it will use and the STEM Commons pages they rest on;
  • how participants, including students, are supervised and credited;
  • how results, including negative ones, are published and corrected.
05Connections

Where the labs connect.

GCRI describes the Future Labs programme on GCRI Future Labs. Evidence from labs is designed to feed the Labs Evidence series of Reports, and testbed protocols can be exercised in the annual Universe programme governed by The Global Risks Forum (GRF), described on Universe exercises and learning.

06Questions

Questions and answers.

Can my institution host a Future of X lab?
Write to the research collaboration form. Hosting is decided in the charter, and an expression of interest does not create a host role.
Why are the labs listed as in formation?
Because no charter is on record yet. The page shows a lab as chartered or operating only when the record exists.
Can new Future of X labs be proposed?
Yes. A proposal describes the domain, the questions and the people who would lead it, and is reviewed against the programme’s scope.
How do students take part?
Through supervised tasks with a mentor and a learning plan, described on participate in research.
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