Leadership Team
Our People
ISF’s Leadership Team contains expertise from across the Arts and Sciences.
Dr Carlos Lopez-Galviz
Director & Institute Lead on Engagement
My work looks at futures thinking and future forming through the lens of cities, ruins and infrastructure. I have studied cities like London, Paris and Shanghai, using history as a means of thinking about what theories and which methods are relevant to understanding their future today and in the past. I am interested in research that is comparative and collaborations that combine disciplinary rigour with cross-disciplinary openness.
Dr. Emily Spiers
Associate Director
Emily Spiers is Lecturer in Creative Futures. Their work focuses on future-oriented, innovative trends in communicative and literary practices. They explore how futures are being envisaged, anticipated and made through art and literature -- and how creative narratives can help articulate multiple futures in fields as diverse as defence, education and climate change.
They have worked with multiple government agencies and creative partners to articulate the importance of critically engaging with the world-building techniques that form the foundation of futures thinking and futures literacy.
Visit their page on Academia.edu or onTwitter.
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Dr Natasa Lakovic
Theme Lead - Cultural and Creative Futures
Natasa Lackovic is Lecturer in Education. She is a co-director of the Centre for Higher Education and Evaluation and the ISF project Reopen Graphic Futures in collaboration with LICAF (Lakes International Comic Art Festival). Her work focuses on creative and innovative practices that inform higher education futures. This work embraces semiotics, art-based practices and visual learning and communication (e.g., her book Inquiry Graphics in Higher Education), such as the applications of comics, graphic novels, photographs and videos across disciplines. She has applied and developed participatory co-design in her research, visual and multimodal storytelling as well as diverse methodological and theoretical approaches, such as the latest development of a relational approach to higher education (upcoming co-authored book with Routledge).