In a climate where universities are cutting corners and research funding becomes ever more competitive, academic staff come under increased pressure to do more with less. The Digital Economy and Society Research Cluster at Edinburgh Futures Institute recently convened to discuss innovate pathways to diversifying the way we fund, conduct, and envision research.
In a climate where universities are cutting corners and research funding becomes ever more competitive, academic staff come under increased pressure to do more with less. The Digital Economy and Society Research Cluster at Edinburgh Futures Institute recently convened to discuss innovate pathways to diversifying the way we fund, conduct, and envision research.
Edinburgh Futures Institute welcomed researchers in the social studies of insurance to a two-day workshop, co-hosted by EFI’s Data Civics Observatory Director, Liz McFall, Financial Services and FinTech Sector Engagement Lead, Tobi Schneider, and Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen of Tampere University.
Futures Institute alumni Brigid McCormack (MSc Narrative Futures) explored audio storytelling in the Appalachian region for her My Futures Project, “Pods and Prose.”
Funded by the Big Ideas Accelerator, we are working to build an interdisciplinary community of practice for those interested in knowledge graphs to unleash their power for addressing wicked social problems.
If you are interested in presenting at the symposium, please submit a 200-word abstract of your talk or creative presentation (in any format), along with a 100-word bio, to alexandra.huang@ed.ac.uk by 10 January 2025.
These projects engage explicitly with educational marginalisation, that process of pushing a particular group or groups of people to the edge of the dominant regimes of power in local, regional, and international educational regimes, whether as an exclusion from resources and decision-making, or through prevailing discourse and policy.
This report explores the contemporary revival of commoning practices in urban and digital contexts. The authors, James Henderson and Oliver Escobar, delve into the historical roots, current manifestations, and future potential of the commons as a paradigm for socioeconomic transformation, democratic innovation and sustainable community governance.
Review of “Creative Feedback: The Feats and Failures of Technology” event, 10th May 2024 by Caterina Moruzzi
In this original short film our regular collaborators, brutalist architectural photographer Simon Phipps and independent researcher Darren Umney, take a birds eye view of Leith Walk from Google Earth Studio.
If how we see a place is a product of where we stand and what tools we use to look, Airbnb is an intriguing case for the Data Civics Observatory. Addie McGowan’s doctoral research explores the processes of Airbnb and how they reconfigure our sense of place, both online and off.
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