Students explore India’s cotton industry
University students travelled to India this summer to unpick the threads that form the country’s $200bn textile industry.
Student protests examined
A leading thinker and political commentator on democracy in South Africa is to speak as part of the University’s Future Lecture Series.
Award gives Edinburgh creative edge
An initiative that seeks to make Edinburgh a world-class centre for the creative industries has received a multi-million pound boost. The funding will create a partnership that uses data from a range of organisations to encourage innovation across the sector.
Lecture explores how to prevent jobless futures
An expert in artificial intelligence will explore the impact of technology replacing jobs and services at the next Futures lecture.
Funding boost for pioneering centre
The Centre for Future Infrastructure (CFI) – a multidisciplinary research network led by the University – is associated with a successful bid to improve future scenario planning. The network, which is part of the Edinburgh Futures Institute, will support the recently launched Centre for Digital Built Britain, a Cambridge-based initiative funded by the UK government.
Data holds key to unlocking health-care, researchers say
The Edinburgh Futures Institute has funded a research project exploring whether enabling local communities to make better use of available data could aid the provision of health-care.
Researchers at the University expect that data collected by private and public providers of basic health-care – such as patient records and medicine distribution – could empower members of communities in deprived areas to make more informed decisions about their health.
Event spotlights creative industries
Gender inequalities, sporting performance and Parisian fashion are some of the wide-ranging topics explored at an international conference this month. The University will co-host the Creative Industries Conference, sponsored by the Edinburgh Futures Institute, over two days from Monday 25 June. The event will bring together world-class scholars from a wide range of disciplines and institutions to share their insights and ideas.
Edinburgh students follow Indian cotton from farm to fashion
University undergraduates will immerse themselves in India’s $200bn textile industry this month. The week-long programme will see business, economics, politics and philosophy students, come together with geographers, biologists, artists and fashion students to tackle real-world challenges.
Eclectic show sees artists trade ideas
Trading Zone, an innovative EFI-sponsored exhibition, runs from 26 May to 23 June at the University’s Talbot Rice Gallery. Unusual combinations of artists from different disciplines have collaborated to create unexpected and challenging works connected by ideas based around data, human behaviour and ecology.
Lecture puts gender issues in the spotlight
Professor Dame Athene Donald, a world-leading experimental physicist from the University of Cambridge, will discuss gender divides in academia at the University’s inaugural Futures Lecture. She will draw from her own experiences to suggest that binary labels – male versus female, art versus science – are unhelpful and can hold back progress in academic research and in society more generally.
