EFI, Author at Edinburgh Futures Institute

Kii Nche Ndutsa (Time and the Seashell)

A person with dark hair is holding a large seashell up to their ear while looking down slightly. The sky is clear and blue in the background.

The film, an output of practice-based research, invites the audience to consider past, present and future of a changing landscape and vanishing biodiversity.

Becoming Animal: “A thought-provoking, peculiar exploration of nature”

A moose stands partially hidden in tall grass and shrubs at night. Its antlers are visible above the vegetation, blending into the dimly lit natural surroundings. The scene is shrouded in darkness, creating a mysterious and serene atmosphere.

Becoming Animal proposes a different kind of nature film: shot in the Gran Teton Park in Wyoming, USA, it examines our shifting relationship to what we call “nature”.

SOCIAM: The Theory and Practice of Social Machines

A graph visualizing the timeline of different patient symptoms from living with progressive disease to the dying phase. It includes peaks for physical, psychological, social, and spiritual symptoms, transitioning from treatment stages to end-of-life phases.

SOCIAM sets out to explore how existing and emerging social media, along with crowdsourcing platforms like Zooniverse, are changing the relationship between people and computers.

SMS:Africa – Social Media and Security in Africa

SMS:Africa provides evidence-based research on the role social media can play in shaping relationships between technology, power and the dynamics of democracy.

What is humanitarian news? A multi-sited study of how journalists define, debate and reproduce the boundaries of humanitarianism

A group of women and a child in colorful clothing sit together outdoors on a sunny day. One woman is writing in a notebook, while the others look on attentively. In the background, more people stand and the scene appears to be set in a rural area.

The project mapped humanitarian reporting across media organisations, winning an award for Outstanding Impact in Policy and Practice at UEA.

Telling Tales of Engagement: Poetic Expressions of Smart Donations with Oxfam

A digital billboard at night shows a vibrant advertisement featuring a person in a light green jacket against a bright pink and blue background. The text reads, "MY MONEY IS ON THE MOVE." The scene is reflected in glass in front of the billboard.

What does it mean to change the fundamentals of our 20th century economic model? How do we make our supply chains more sustainable? How will the practices and politics of distribution be changed by new digital technologies? The EPSRC funded OxChain project set out to explore how Blockchain technologies can be used to reshape value in a much broader and diversified way.

Signs and Gestures

A young person with long, blonde hair lies on a pillow, wearing a dark shirt. They appear to be looking off to the side in deep thought. The lighting has a blueish tint, giving the scene a calm and reflective mood.

Signs and Gestures is a film by Itandehui Jansen, which has received the Audience Award for Best Short Film at the Cambria Film Festival. It is the main output from practice-based research, which explored how inclusion of people with different abilities can be improved within film production, particularly for the hearing or visually impaired.

How media influences governments’ allocation of humanitarian aid

An elderly woman wearing a headscarf and brown coat sits on a wooden bench in a tent. She holds a small glass in one hand and her passport in the other. She has a blue striped bag next to her. The background shows packed items and yellow ventilation tubes.

In the first large, comparative study of its kind, Kate Wright (Edinburgh) together with Martin Scott (UEA) and Mel Bunce (City) interviewed 30 senior policy-makers about how different kinds of media influenced their allocation of humanitarian aid.

Community Leadership in North Edinburgh: Report from the Knowledge Exchange Labs 2022

Edinburgh Futures Institute’s (EFI) Data Civics team was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to undertake knowledge exchange and shared learning with local bodies in North Edinburgh – drawing on previous research on both community empowerment and digital cultural regeneration.

CovidArcadia

Yellow footsteps and arrows printed on wooden floor

CovidArcadia was a project supported by the Scottish Funding Council to document, map, and analyse responses to the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions brought in by local businesses in Edinburgh.

Kii Nche Ndutsa (Time and the Seashell)

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