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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reducing road accident deaths is one of the UN’s early Sustainable Development Goals, with a target date of 2020. Is the UK on course to meet its commitments?
From over 20 submissions for the EFI research awards, four have now been selected to receive up to £5,000 explore a wide range of issues. The four winners are Benjamin Bach, Deborah Scott, Kate Symons and Jean-Benoît Falisse.
The Studio for Transdisciplinary Art Research (STAR) conference takes place in Edinburgh this year. Professors Chris Speed and Paul Thomas reflect on the themes of previous conferences and the aims of year’s event, which is led by the Centre for Design Informatics and supported by EFI.
Events exploring too-big-to-fail, emerging financial stability risks and resolution ten years after the global financial crisis took place at the University this month. The high-level round tables were the first of their kind in Scotland and the product of close cooperation between the Commercial Law Centre of Edinburgh Law School, the Edinburgh Futures Institute and the Bank of England.
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