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Future of identity
Foresight project looking at how changes in the next 10 years will affect views of identity in the UK.
This project explored how changes in technology, politics, economics, our environment and demographics will affect our view of identity.
The aim of the project was to come to a broad and independent scientific view of changing identities in the UK by bringing together existing evidence from a range of academic disciplines, including computer science, criminology, the social sciences and the humanities.
The project was guided by a group of experts to make sure it included the most relevant evidence and its findings were of a high scientific standard.
Project report
Supporting evidence
The future of identity project commissioned 20 independent papers, providing a wide ranging evidence base for the project.
- Future of identity: lessons from previous technological breakthroughs
- Relationship between online and offline identities
- Identity and social media
- Identity and technology
- Identity and the impact of surveillance technologies
- Identity and environment
- Identity and ideology
- National identity and constitutional change
- Identity and political allegiance
- Identity: power, conflict and prejudice
- Identity and the economy
- Identity and economic inequality
- Identity and the population age profile
- Identity: drivers of change
- Minority ethnic and religious identity across generations
- National and supranational identities
- Identity and risk
- National identity and ethnic diversity
- Identity crime in the UK
- Identity crime in the UK: future challenges
Announcements
Published 21 January 2013