Utopia Lab
Our Utopia Labs are “no-spaces,” places where everyone is welcome to join us in dreaming futures that inspire our experience of the present.
EFI Student Exhibitions
Our space for sharing creative work produced by Edinburgh Futures Institute Students, and other University of Edinburgh students working with EFI on world-changing projects.
Recycling a Hospital
Our ‘Recycling a Hospital’ project aims to reuse materials from the reconstruction of the Old Royal Infirmary, the future home of the Edinburgh Futures Institute.
Why can’t we work together?
Dr Kristy Docherty, Director of Public Services at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, argues that for complex collaborations to be successful, we need to re-focus on relationships.
Engaging students online
Dr James Lamb shares his experience with fusion teaching and reflects on ways to improve student engagement online by thinking beyond the face-to-face/online dichotomy.
Uncertain futures – how can education prepare us for what might lie ahead?
The world is changing. Rapidly. Professor Sian Bayne, tells us more about how higher education can develop to meet the demands of an uncertain future.
It’s time for the financial services sector to reinvent itself, with purpose
The financial services sector faces a range of challenges, but working with externals to innovate with purpose is key to meeting them, writes Ksenia Grant, Director of financial services and fintech sector engagement
On the threshold
Dr Patricia Erskine, our Director of Cultural and Community Engagement reflects on making a modest entrance.
Putting ethics into practice
Over the last year Data for Children Collaborative were delighted to be involved in helping to develop an Ethical Framework and Workbook for the Scottish Government’s Data and Intelligence Network.
Restoring trust in financial benchmarks
In the wake of the LIBOR scandal, the Financial Conduct Authority needed assurances that the replacement rate-setting process was fair and robust, so it called on Professor Gbenga Ibikunle and his team to investigate.
