EFI, Author at Edinburgh Futures Institute

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.

Films and the AWED (AreWeData) collective

AWED were brought together by accident and a shared interest in making films, installations, texts and other web-based artefacts, that explore the use of new forms of ‘big data’ and old forms of archival data in how places are imagined, represented and planned.

Institutional investment and the built environment in the context of ‘Levelling-up’ policy

The investment funds of life insurance and pension companies have had an outsized and scarcely remarked impact on the built environment in cities and towns across the world.

Granton Civicscope

Civicscope uses photographic, digital and archival resources to witness the city, its architectures and its voices evolve through time and space.

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