Continuity, contingency and context: Bringing the historian's cognitive toolkit into university futures and public policy development

Business & Economics

• Policy Development 95%
• Toolkit 92%
• Contingency 76%
• Decision Making 70%
• Strategic Foresight 61%
• Continuity 59%
• Scenario Planning 53%
• Government Department 49%
• Strategic Thinking 49%

Social Sciences

• historian 81%
• contingency 77%
• continuity 68%
• public policy 61%
• university 37%
• decision making 34%
• research project 19%
• scenario 19%
• planning 16%
• history 14%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• policy development 100%
• decision making 60%
• foresight 55%
• public 54%
• research project 38%
• planning 25%
• history 22%