EFI Utopia Lab pilot
For three days in June, a diverse group of students, staff and external organisations gathered to take part in an experimental workshop, exploring new ideas around our relationship with technology.
FinTech PhD
Firms delivering financial services need to attract and mobilise the right talent with knowledge of financial markets and economic interactions, the ability to harness the power of data and AI and the the skills to innovate. The Doctoral Programme in Fintech will train world-class students in partnership with businesses to accelerate the deployment of FinTech technologies for commercial and societal benefit.
FinTech MSc
The operation of financial markets and the delivery of financial services impact a variety of real-world issues including job creation and credit approval. Our vocationally minded new MSc in Finance, Technology and Policy addresses the knowledge gap created by the pace of technological transformation in financial services and markets.
Students trade big ideas at gallery show
The fragile climate, the objectification of female twins and the meaning of life itself are some of the issues students are grappling with in a new exhibition.
Research Award winners announced
EFI has awarded nine projects funding to support interdisciplinary research issues sincluding fuel poverty, emergency services and tech company influence.
Art and AI artist residency and research programme announced
Edinburgh Futures Institute is to host an artist working with artificial intelligence as part of a new project linking emerging technologies with the city’s festivals.
Students offer fresh insights on researchers’ work
Two world-leading thinkers on business and the economy will go on stage alongside PhD students at an event that aims to bring new perspectives on their work.
Blockchain technologies explained
An informative guide that aims to demystify blockchain technologies has been developed by researchers with support from an EFI Research Award.
Chancellor’s Fellows
The Edinburgh Futures Institute has appointed five academics to help lead the next generation of research innovation.
The group are part of the University’s prestigious Chancellor’s Fellows scheme, which is aimed at exceptional individuals who are establishing a reputation for the highest quality research at the forefront of their discipline.
TRADING ZONE 2019: Open Call
Submissions are now open to all University students to showcase their work at an exhibition in the University’s Talbot Rice Gallery. Last year Talbot Rice Gallery launched Trading Zone, a new kind of student exhibition that aimed to create links between different disciplines across the University of Edinburgh. Student showcase Propelled by contemporary ideas it … Read more
