Futures Thinking Series: the situation room: scenarios for successful projects What you'll do Bring projects at idea - or early implementation stage to this workshop where we’ll introduce premortems and scenario planning as practical tools for anticipating and navigating future challenges. By the end of the workshop you will have applied these futures methods in practice, and have a format to take away for future projects. What we'll cover The workshop includes: Step by step approach to premortems (or backcasting) Anticipating project risks and planning mitigations Surfacing project assumptions Using scenarios to inform present plans After this session, you'll be able to: This is a useful method both to use as a project lead or within project teams and pre-empts future tensions by identifying and surfacing challenges ahead of time Important to know This workshop is part of the future thinking series of workshops. These workshops explore futures thinking as a creative and strategic tool for shaping research, career direction and academic practice. They use futures methods to support insight, vision creation, creativity, agency and strategic thinking. Each of the workshops are standalone but there will be themes which build across the workshops for participants who attend all the sessions.This session is facilitated by Emily Shipp. Book a place (UoE staff only) Tags Principal Investigators Research Staff Nov 04 2026 09.30 - 13.00 Futures Thinking Series: the situation room: scenarios for successful projects A practical half day workshop designed for projects in development or early delivery, introducing approaches for anticipating risks and planning for uncertainty. Room 3.2 Lister Learning & Teaching Centre The University of Edinburgh 5 Roxburgh Place Edinburgh EH8 9SU Campus Map This article was published on Monday 8 June 2026
Futures Thinking Series: the situation room: scenarios for successful projects What you'll do Bring projects at idea - or early implementation stage to this workshop where we’ll introduce premortems and scenario planning as practical tools for anticipating and navigating future challenges. By the end of the workshop you will have applied these futures methods in practice, and have a format to take away for future projects. What we'll cover The workshop includes: Step by step approach to premortems (or backcasting) Anticipating project risks and planning mitigations Surfacing project assumptions Using scenarios to inform present plans After this session, you'll be able to: This is a useful method both to use as a project lead or within project teams and pre-empts future tensions by identifying and surfacing challenges ahead of time Important to know This workshop is part of the future thinking series of workshops. These workshops explore futures thinking as a creative and strategic tool for shaping research, career direction and academic practice. They use futures methods to support insight, vision creation, creativity, agency and strategic thinking. Each of the workshops are standalone but there will be themes which build across the workshops for participants who attend all the sessions.This session is facilitated by Emily Shipp. Book a place (UoE staff only) Tags Principal Investigators Research Staff Nov 04 2026 09.30 - 13.00 Futures Thinking Series: the situation room: scenarios for successful projects A practical half day workshop designed for projects in development or early delivery, introducing approaches for anticipating risks and planning for uncertainty. Room 3.2 Lister Learning & Teaching Centre The University of Edinburgh 5 Roxburgh Place Edinburgh EH8 9SU Campus Map This article was published on Monday 8 June 2026
Nov 04 2026 09.30 - 13.00 Futures Thinking Series: the situation room: scenarios for successful projects A practical half day workshop designed for projects in development or early delivery, introducing approaches for anticipating risks and planning for uncertainty.
