Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Convenor, Futures in Committee
Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Convenor, Futures in Committee
Doctoral candidates: Sunniva Balogun , Ylva Ogunbanjo and Ylva Onyekwere
Dr Tolan is an ethnographer of planning. Her fieldwork embeds with strategy units, review panels, and working groups to document how foresight is actually practised — the workshops, the templates, the quiet negotiations over wording — and how those practices scale from pilot settings to whole-of-organisation footprints.
Research indicators
| Research outputs | 192 |
|---|---|
| Citations | 1050 |
| h-index | 25 |
| i10-index | 26 |
| Collaboration breadth | 34 co-authors |
| Active since | 2026 |
| Research income | $460,460 |
Research outputs
- The Month Got Longer. For Everyone.
- Credited, Not Flexible, Explained
- Watching the Model Run
- The Queue as Leading Indicator, Explained
- The Token Still Passes, Explained
- Still on the Agenda
- Reports Follow the Counter
- Nobody's Portfolio
- The Margins Clean First
- A Few Leaves, If You Don't Mind
- Stimulating the Ear Does Not Move the Agenda
- "Just Put That"
- Referred to Commission
- No Front to Draw
- Dating by the Commutant
- Nine Steps to the Northern Fragment
- The Figure in the Front Window, Wearing the Best-Seller Nobody Could Buy
- 'Except Permit Holders'
- Towards a Call Schedule for the Cup Ledge
- Footy-tipping organisers hold the envelope until they leave the floor
- “We Have Noted Your Feedback”
- SKIPS
- RACK
- Notes on the Face-Up Ticket
- A bargain bin holds four kinds of thing
- Remarks on a Missing Discontinuity
- Skip Link, Eventually
- Does a Higher Pram-Bay Maturity Level Put More Prams in the Bays?
- The Spare Room as Standing Offer
- Towards a Key to the Wiper Note
- HEDGE
- Notes on the Extra Minute
- Towards a Tenancy-Grade Standpipe
- Made It Exactly as Written, Apart From Everything
- "Move the Dot Where You Think You Are"
- The Mug Cupboard as Rostering Instrument
- Towards an Audited Disclosure Standard for Newsletter Sending-Tier Thresholds
- The Coffee-Queue Pigeon as an Allocation Instrument
- The Speed Hump as a Local Veto
- The Compost Tumbler as Eligibility Gate
- A Scheduling-Consensus Engine Locks In a Group Chat's Meeting Time and Mutes Further Replies
- Tipped Before Delivered
- TIN
- Counted, Not Seated
- The Markdown Sticker as Admission Instrument
- The Moisture Reading as the Standing Umpire
- Spaced, Not Spoken
- Seen, Not Seated
- Six Weeks There, None Here
- "Withheld in Full"
- The Marshal Calls You Forward
- Towards a clouds-out register
- Lunch on the food-court quad
- Hummed, Not Sung
- Should tea be called if the opener is on 94?
- Steeped, Not Binned
- A Cursor Is Not a Jacket
- Street Parties Stall Once the Marshals Have Vests
- Towards the Last Tab
- The Clean/Dirty Magnet Points the Right Way No More Often in Level 4 Kitchens Than in Level 2 Kitchens
- Towards a Ladder of Cutoffs
- Measuring Verge Maturity
- Rated, Not Trusted
- Towards a Portable Threshold
- Does the Lock Close the Loop?
- Below Threshold, Beyond Appeal
- ROOST
- Nobody Remembers What It Was Built to Measure
- Still in the Mesh Bag at Half-Time
- Taken on Notice
- Manager to Register Four
- Do Colour-Coded Response Cards Change Anything?
- Self-Policing Bays Lose Their Cameras
- RAIL
- Towards Self-Resourcing Crossing Supervision
- Towards a Legible Marketplace
- Removing the Neutral Middle Rating Increases Formal Appeals Against Performance Reviews
- Scoring the Queue, the Pigeons, and the Biscuit Tin
- Passing Made It Worse
- Credited, Not Flexible
- Flagged for Helping
- Never The Day's
- Towards a Typing-Occupancy Protocol
- Does Anyone Eat the Last Sandwich?
- Towards an Attested Vocabulary of Five Minutes
- Ticked, Not Taken
- Kerbside Waiting Sorts Into Four Recurring Types
- The Carpool Runs on the Group Chat, Not the App
- STAMP
- Trajectory Analytics Certifies Who Keeps the Pitch
- Towards a Till-Float Maturity Model
- The Committee Ratified It Three Days Later
- PACE
- The Indicator Commons treats the latest edit as the civic record
- Members Stop Calling It Talent Once the Rubric Scores It
- A Weighted Challenge-Ladder Algorithm Did Not Reduce Forfeits at a Suburban Tennis Club
- Most Temporary Traffic Measures Never Revert
- Towards a Verified-Enthusiasm Protocol
- Insufficient Evidence of Installation
- CASP
- The Prompt Book Does Not Settle
- Coding the Workaround
- Does the Sign-Out Sheet Get More Kids Into Costume?
- A Standing-Ovation Threshold Model Fails to Predict When a Comedy Room Laughs
- Coding What a Reliability Score Rewards
- Three Songs, One Piano
- Coding the Late Note
- Timing the Hold
- Does Anyone Still Mean the Time on the Sign?
- What Counts As Settled?
- Coding the Shush
- Nine Passengers Keep the Quiet Carriage Quiet
- Strategy Absorption in a Two-Volunteer School Tuckshop
- Someone Has to Look
- Recovering the Unwritten Roster
- PANTRY
- Service Marks in Domestic Meter Boxes
- A Criticality Analysis of the Folding Event Marquee
- Cycles to Failure in Weathered Domestic Clothes Pegs
- Does It Matter Where the Key Was Cut?
- Towards a Cage-Loading Standard
- The Certificate Stays With the Wall
- Locked at Three on Friday
- Off the End of the Funnel
- Handed Out While the Chairs Went Up
- Only What Has an Outline
- On Rotation, Not on Risk
- What the Machine Hands Back
- Received, Not Relayed
- Past the Guard Petals
- The Hint That Didn't Count
- First to Reply, Not First to Fit
- The Token Still Passes
- Ranked to Avoid
- Whoever Backed In First
- Attended, Not Donated
- Read Past The Queue
- The Priority Was Already Written
- Kept on the Fridge
- Read Before You Approve
- Loudest, Not Busiest
- Between the Flags, Because the Flags Moved
- Where the Hammer Landed
- Sorted Four Ways, Filed as One
- A Plate Is Not a Visit
- Whose Evening It Was
- Between Eight and Twelve
- Punctual by Timetable, Slower on the Ramp
- Six Days, or Two Hundred and Forty-Seven
- The Grade Stops at the Counter
- It Held in the First Sample
- Six Minutes, Unless You Press
- The Tick Has Two Boxes
- Better, and Gone
- Twelve Means Nine Things
- Logged Healthy Anyway
- For Insurance, Probably
- The Step You Can't Picture
- Least Worried, Most Watched
- Generous On Paper, Quiet On the Calendar
- The Street Sees It Coming First
- Assigned, Then Renegotiated
- Charged in Theory, Waived in Practice
- Same Balance, New Argument
- The Form Held Up
- The Record No One Assigned
- Not Everyone Signs Off
- Back Soon, Still Waiting
- Waved Through, Not Booked In
- Confident First, Correct Later
- Weighed In Before It's Weighed
- Compliant on the Survey, Unlabelled in the Log
- Held, Not Signed
- Sited, Not Chosen
- Picturing the Floor Plan
- Not the Kiosk's Fault
- The Keep-Alive Tap
- Minuted Into Certainty
- Recall Without Recourse
- Assurance, Audited From Within
- Finished, Not Understood
- More Words, More Drift
- Fully Attested, Never Observed
- Already on Your Path
- Freshly Worded, Still Adrift
- Keep the Instruments Running
- Directionally Consistent
- Reading the Panel, Not the Practice
- The Vagueness Dividend
- The Building Knows First
- The Minute as Alibi
- The Queue as Leading Indicator
Grants and awards
- Ruling the Columns of a Sailing Club's Incident Book Before the Season's First Capsize
- Redrafting the School Newsletter's Term-Ahead Column Before the Copy-Paste Sets In