Reports and publications

Access the full report and all supporting evidence and documentation using the links below.

Project report

• Future Identities.  Changing identities in the UK: The next 10 years - Full Report (PDF, 1.2 Mb) 
• Future Identities.  Changing identities in the UK: The next 10 years - Executive Summary (PDF, 417 Kb) 

Evidence base

• Can histories of previous technological breakthroughs, drawn from the 20th and 21st centuries and including recent technologies, tell us anything about how identities might change over the next 10 years and why? (PDF, 324 Kb) 
• What is the relationship between identities that people construct, express and consume online and those offline? (PDF, 307 Kb) 
• What is, and will be, the impact of social media on identity? (PDF, 314 Kb) 
• Will an increasing element of our identity be ‘devolved’ to machines? (PDF, 377 Kb) 
• How will surveillance and privacy technologies impact on the psychological notions of identity? (PDF, 436 Kb) 
• How will environmental and place-based change affect notions of identity in the UK over the next ten years? (PDF, 572 Kb) 
• How will ideology affect notions of identity in the next 10 years? (PDF, 515 Kb) 
• How might devolution (and other possible constitutional changes) affect notions of identity in the next 10 years? (PDF, 564 Kb) 
• How might changes in political allegiances (such as the continued rise of minor parties and declining trust in politics) affect notions of identity in the next 10 years? (PDF, 325 Kb) 
• How will issues of power, conflict, and prejudice and discrimination impact upon notions of identity? (PDF, 352 Kb) 
• What happens to people's identities when the economy is suffering or flourishing? (PDF, 486 Kb) 
• How does economic inequality impact upon notions of identity? (PDF, 450 Kb) 
• What will the age profile of the population mean for notions of identity in the next 10 years? (PDF, 319 Kb) 
• What are the distinguishing generational, life course and historical drivers of changing identities? (PDF, 268 Kb) 
• How might we expect minorities’ feelings of ethnic, religious and British identity to change, especially among the second and third generations? (PDF, 687 Kb) 
• To what extent are ongoing changes in national and supranational identities based on ethnic or civic conceptions of the nation, and what are the behavioural consequences of these different conceptions? (PDF, 1.0 Mb) 
• What is the relationship between identity and technological, economic, demographic, environmental and political change viewed through a risk lens? (PDF, 677 Kb) 
• Is there evidence that national, and other, identities change as the ethnic composition of the UK changes? (PDF, 1.2 Mb) 
• How will the changes to identity and behaviour identified in DR1-18, and the existing literature, impact on crime and responses to crime over the next ten years? (PDF, 404 Kb) 
• The Future Challenges of Identity Crime in the UK (PDF, 323 Kb)   

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