James Harkin
James Harkin is a consultant forecaster at the Social Issues Research Centre. He holds a degree in law from King's College London and an M. Phil. degree in politics from Oxford University. Between 1996 and 1999 he taught politics at Oxford University, where he researched ideas of risk within contemporary society.
James now consults widely as a forecaster of social trends, and is a consultant to global intelligence projects for strategists at HeadlightVision. He also writes for the national press on social and political trends, and is a regular contributor to the New Statesman and the Independent on Sunday. His work has also appeared in the Australian Financial Review, the magazine Internazionale in Italy, and he has appeared on BBC radio as a commentator on social trends. He is currently writing a book about new sources of belief in contemporary society.
