From 1 December 2025, the department will be moving over to the University's new pre-travel risk assessments system, Peregrine Foresight.
What is Peregrine Foresight?
Peregrine Foresight is an award-winning, secure digital platform specifically designed to standardise, streamline and improve pre-travel risk assessments.
Some of its capabilities include:
- Foresight uses real-time intelligence to calculate the risk rating for each trip, so travellers don’t need to assess this before starting a risk assessment.
- Real-time intelligence on risks and hazards for each country is available from within the platform to make it easier for travellers to identify and mitigate the risks they may face.
- Information about travellers’ plans gathered in the risk assessment can be used to provide other information and support to travellers before the trip starts, eg: about insurance, vaccinations, visas, information security, import/export issues.
- The risk assessment can be completed and sent for departmental approval electronically.
- The University can see where its staff and students are, and ensure proper support is provided to travellers, especially in case of emergencies overseas.
- The system also integrates with the University’s travel insurance, enabling both the pre-travel risk assessment and insurance coverage to be arranged seamlessly within a single platform.
In short, Peregrine Foresight replaces paper forms and fragmented email processes, offering clarity, consistency, and more robust travel risk management. While completing the risk assessment may take slightly longer than the previous system, its enhanced capabilities provide tailored advice for each journey, empowering safer and more informed decision-making.
What you need to do and when
- Starting 1 December, all pre-travel risk assessments for overseas travel must be completed and submitted via Peregrine Foresight (you may start using it before this date).
- After this date, the previous process will no longer be accepted, and travel insurance applications outside Peregrine Foresight will not be possible.
- The system is designed to be user friendly and intuitive. Access, as well as guidance and help pages are available here: Peregrine Foresight | Safeguarding Work Away
- A Permission to Travel Form is still required for all trips in addition to the completion of a risk assessment. We won't be able to approve your risk assessment until we have received your completed form.
Please note, when selecting an approver for your risk assessment, please choose as follows:
For IoA Postgraduate Students:
“Astronomy - Postgraduate Students, Approvers”
(Managed by Debbie Peterson and Carolyn Young) (Graduate Students should also continue to complete and submit a Permission to Travel/Funding Request Form as before)
IMPORTANT - To ensure an assessment is reviewed and approved prior to the travel start date of the assessment, the following timelines should be aimed for whenever possible:
- Low risk – 7 days
- Medium risk – 14 days
- High risk – 2-3 months
Low-risk UK Travel
For trips within the UK where the work being undertaken is non-practical (eg: desk-based, conference, seminar, meeting). The following form should be completed prior to travel: Low Risk UK Travel Form
This gives the Department enough information to be able to contact you while away to check on your safety, if for instance, there is a major incident in the place you have travelled to.
Cancellations - should a trip you have planned be cancelled or you decide you no longer wish to travel please log into Peregrine Foresight, download a copy of your risk assessment and then contact internationalsupport@admin.cam.ac.uk, quoting the trip ID and ask them to decline/cancel it.