Edinburgh Futures Institute is proud to announce our next cohort of Visiting Fellows for Academic Year (AY) 2025/2026.
The 6 awardees joining us from 6 different countries will take up their posts from September 2025 and will spend a period between 3 and 6 months at Edinburgh Futures Institute, sponsored by academic staff across 6 different schools.
Our visiting fellows bring expertise focused on our research themes of future infrastructure, ethics of AI, creative industries and digital humanities, the public sector, and financial services and fintech.
Visiting fellows will be able to take part in our seminars and events programmes, access our training courses, and interact with other academics affiliated with the Futures Institute, our partners from the business and third sector, and our students.
The scheme will help the fellows to develop their research in conversation with colleagues in Edinburgh, and will also allow Edinburgh Futures Institute and the wider University to foster new international collaborative links.
Our 2025/2026 Visiting Fellows
- Jarrett Blaustein (Australian National University) – Adaptive Policing and Partnership Working in a Polycrisis – sponsored by Alistair Henry, School of Law, Juliane Kloess, School of Health in Social Science, and Kristy Docherty, Scottish Prevention Hub.
- Lana Swartz (University of Virginia)- The Scam Age: Shadowing Financial Technology – sponsored by Liz McFall, School of Social & Political Science.
- Maya Van Leemput (Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel) – Mapping openess in Edinburgh’s creative eco-system – sponsored by Ivana Milojevic, Moray House School of Education and Sport.
- Ramsha Naeem (University of Central Punjab) – Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Shaping Employee Cognition and Behaviors – sponsored by Shannon Vallor, School of Philosophy, Psychology & Language Sciences.
- Shaimaa Lazem (SRTA-City) – Storytelling to Unpack the Entanglements of Designing Responsible AI – sponsored by John Vines, School of Informatics.
- Willian Nadaleti (Universidade Federal de Pelotas)- Sustainable energy transition pathways taking into account the infrastructure needs for specific energy sources in the UK and Scotland – sponsored by Sean Smith, School of Engineering.
Anissa Tanweer, Futures Institute Visiting Fellow 2024/2025, said:
“I just want to say a huge THANK YOU for supporting me in this intellectually transformative fellowship. It has been a highlight of my career and also created memories that my family will cherish forever!”
Enda Delaney, Edinburgh Futures Institute Director of Research said:
“We look forward to welcoming our wonderful cohort of Visiting Fellows to the Futures Institute in the next academic year, each fellow bringing new expertise and knowledge to add to our vibrant and diverse research community.”
