In 2020/21, our EFI Research awards were managed in collaboration with colleagues in the CAHSS College Research Office, as a stream within the Challenge Investment Fund call. CIF Awards are aimed to support broader College research objectives to further synergies and areas of cross-disciplinary expertise within CAHSS, across College boundaries and/or outside the institution. Applicants…
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Announcing winners of the EFI Student Research Awards
We are very pleased to announce the awardees of the third round of Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Student Research Projects. Our student projects are reflective of the Futures Institute’s participatory and future facing ethos – embracing criticality and with an aim to create demonstrable ethical, social, cultural, economic and environmental impacts. Support for student research Our…
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Edinburgh Futures Institute influences Net Zero Strategy for Scotland’s 2.6 million homes
Professor Sean Smith, Director of the Centre for Future Infrastructure at EFI leads proposals on the establishment of a task force to retrofit housing and meet Scotland’s ambitious net zero targets.
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Exploring the science of financial wellbeing
Financial services giant Aegon has announced a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with the Edinburgh Futures Institute and the University of Edinburgh Business School, to develop a new approach to financial engagement.
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The Centre for Technomoral Futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute celebrates our launch! Join us on Thursday 29 April for an evening of conversation about how technical and moral intelligence can be brought together to lead us out of crisis and into hope. The Centre will host leaders, creators and innovators from academia, technology, business…
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A Conversation on Technomoral Futures: Building Wisdom from Crisis original
The Centre for Technomoral Futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute celebrates launch with an evening of conversation about how technical and moral intelligence can be brought together to lead us out of crisis and into hope.
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Building a holistic research environment at EFI
Our recently published research strategy outlines commitment to a challenge-led approach alongside support for producing meaningful and sustained impact in society.
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Edinburgh Futures Conversations
The University of Edinburgh and EFI launch a new series to promote global understanding and cooperation, and to contribute action-oriented thinking to the public debate about the world’s response to Covid-19.
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Digital training for researchers
The Centre for Data, Culture & Society (CDCS) provides resources and support for researchers interested in improving and implementing their digital research skills.
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AI centre stage in weird and wonderful take on Festival Fringe
In the absence of a physical version of the world’s biggest arts festival, this year EFI Director of Research, Professor Melissa Terras has invented the Improvbot which uses Artificial Intelligence to analyse a digital archive of Fringe listings, and to imagine a series of mind-bending online spectacles.
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