Future Present: Perspectives from the Edinburgh Futures Institute

Chair of the Strategic Advisory Panel for the EFI Centre for Future Infrastructure, Professor Gordon Masterton considers the impact of the pandemic on our tolerability of risk and the implications on our response to climate-change.

New online course pioneers EFI vision for hybrid learning

The coronavirus pandemic has challenged university teachers to design high-quality teaching without access to classrooms. Three lecturers at EFI rose to this challenge to create its first fully-online course, engage learners and enhance their teaching capabilities.

EFI to house new fintech centre

World-first collaboration between University of Edinburgh, FDATA and Fintech Scotland receives £22.5m from UKRI and will be a cornerstone for EFI’s fintech proposition…

EFI Confirms 2020 Research Awards

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EFI confirms the winners of this year’s Research Awards. Successful projects projects receive up to £5,000 to explore a wide range of issues…

Should we take the statue down?

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In the course of making the Closes & Opens film, the filmmakers had an opportunity to speak with Sir Geoff Palmer about Scotland’s role in the slave trade and the shadow of its history evident across the city of Edinburgh…

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