Dr. Ozcan Saritas is based at the University of Manchester where he is a Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR, formerly PREST). In MIoIR he is engaged in various research and teaching activities. Ozcan’s research activity has been focused mostly upon long-term policy and strategy making with particular emphasis upon Foresight methodologies and their implementation in socio-economic and technological fields at the supra-national, national, regional and sectoral levels. During his doctoral research he developed unique Foresight approaches based on systems thinking. Since 2000, he has been working in a number of research projects including SESTI (Scanning for Emerging Science and Technology Issues), SANDERA (The future impact of security and defence policies on European Research Area), the European Monitoring Centre of Change Sector Futures project, BEFORE (sectoral foresight in five EU regions), and the ForLearn Online Foresight Guide. In 2004 and 2006 he had short term research contracts with United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO). In UNIDO he worked for the Industry Promotion and Technology Department to implement the UNIDO Technology Foresight Programme for Central and Eastern European Countries and Newly Independent States. On the teaching side, he delivers courses including “Sustainable Technology Management” and “Foresight Concepts and Methods” in the Management of Science, Technology and Innovation MSc Programme, “Strategic Foresight for Organisations” in the MBS-MBA Programme, and “Scenario Methods in Research” in the MBS-PhD Programme. He also supervises PhD and MSc students. On the executive education side, he acts as the co-director of the PREST Annual Foresight course. He has given lectures in the UNIDO Technology Foresight training courses and other Foresight courses organised by European Commission and European Science Foundation. Ozcan has recently been appointed as the new editor of “Foresight” journal.
Deborah Cox is a Research Fellow at PREST. Deborah studied social sciences at degree level and has a Masters degree in Information Management from Sheffield University. Much of her work has concentrated on the dynamics – and impacts of – reform in the non-university public research sector across Europe, and she is a co-author of Scrutinizing Science, the key work on the reform of government research institutes in the UK.
Ms Amanatidou is a PhD researcher with PREST – The University of Manchester on the topic: “Assessing the contribution of Foresight towards a more participatory ‘knowledge society’“. Her Bachelor’s Degree is in mathematics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (EL). She also holds an MSc in Technical Change & Industrial Strategy from PREST. Her thesis was on “Technology Assessment / Foresight Exercises in Greece: the case of the “Technological Impact Foresight Studies” project 1992-1994”. Her experience covers the fields of foresight studies, regional and national innovation systems, policies of science and technology, research evaluation and impact assessment, as well as scientific advice and risk governance.
