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SUMMARY:AI as a creative companion for academia
DESCRIPTION:Anthropic’s workshops aim to show the Fringe community how AI assistants can help with burdensome tasks\, and to hear your feedback as we all shape the future of this technology together. \n\n\n\nThis workshop for academics is a great opportunity for students\, faculty staff and anyone involved in education to learn how to apply AI to research and development\, revision\, lesson planning\, grading\, learning new skills and much more. \n\n\n\nThis session will be hosted by members of Anthropic’s education and creative teams\, with a focus on getting the most out of its flagship AI assistant Claude–a large language model used by millions of people for personal and professional tasks. \n\n\n\nAnthropic believes AI will augment—not replace—human creativity\, and its team is dedicated to showing you how this technology can contribute to existing aspects of your day-to-day work\, and be the most helpful companion possible. \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\n16:00-16:30 – Welcome tea\, coffee & refreshments \n\n\n\n16:30-17:30 – Workshop (10-minute introduction to AI\, a 30 minute demonstration of helpful tasks\, and 20 minutes of attendee Q&A and feedback). \n\n\n\nWorkshops are free to attend and\, given limited capacity\, we encourage you to reserve a spot as soon as possible.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ai-as-a-creative-companion-for-academia/
LOCATION:St Leonard’s Hall\, 18 Holyrood Park Road\, Edinburgh\, EH16 5AY
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240810T151500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240810T171500
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SUMMARY:Margaret Atwood: Practical Utopias – An Exploration of the Possible
DESCRIPTION:As part of our Future Tense series\, and in partnership with Future Library\, we are thrilled to present Margaret Atwood\, appearing remotely\, illuminating a concept that has gripped her extraordinary imagination of late\, and offering a way forward from the most intractable challenges of our time – Practical Utopias. Can we reset the relationship between people and planet by bringing a new way of thinking to some of our most fundamental and pressing questions: what kind of homes should we live in? What should we eat? How can we share space on this planet together? Chaired by Naomi Alderman. \n\n\n\nThere will be no signing after this event as Margaret Atwood is appearing remotely. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupported by Edinburgh Futures Institute.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/margaret-atwood-practical-utopias-an-exploration-of-the-possible/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh International Book Festival,Talk/Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240811T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240811T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T093745
CREATED:20240724T102132Z
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SUMMARY:Practical Utopias: Workshop
DESCRIPTION:By asking us to reconsider the most basic questions of our existence\, Margaret Atwood’s ‘Practical Utopias’ concept provides a blueprint for rethinking how we live sustainably and optimistically. What should we eat in utopia? What are the optimal ways for groups to live together? Today\, Jennifer Williams\, Utopia Lab programme director at the Edinburgh Futures Institute\, delivers a workshop using Atwood’s framework. Based on principles of collaboration\, future-thinking\, and innovation\, the workshop will get you thinking about how the future can inspire and influence our present. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupported by Edinburgh Futures Institute.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/practical-utopias-workshop/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh International Book Festival,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240812T121500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240812T131500
DTSTAMP:20260407T093745
CREATED:20240805T102455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240806T054147Z
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SUMMARY:Madhumita Murgia & Georgina Voss: The Systems Which Govern Us
DESCRIPTION:Two fascinating technology writers reveal the disorientating extent to which we are already governed by AI and complex systems. Hear Financial Times AI editor Madhumita Murgia (author of Code Dependent) and artist and academic Georgina Voss (author of Systems Ultra) as they question what ethical\, moral\, and practical questions are being left in the wake of technological advance? What happens next? Chaired by Pip Thornton. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupported by the Centre for Data\, Culture & Society\, part of Edinburgh Futures Institute.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/madhumita-murgia-georgina-voss-the-systems-which-govern-us/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh International Book Festival,Talk/Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240819T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240819T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T093745
CREATED:20240813T135142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240813T135820Z
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SUMMARY:Page Against the Machine: Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Writers\, publishers\, readers! In a Book Festival WORLD EXCLUSIVE\, join us for a product launch like no other. Endowed with game-changing generative technology\, our new machine promises to revolutionise the literary world. Deadlines\, writer’s block\, and burnout will be relics of the past. Imagine amplifying your literary outputs tenfold\, a hundredfold — with no extra effort! Be part of history. Be there when the future of writing begins. \n\n\n\nHuman Verses Machine is a performative intervention developed as part of Pip Thornton’s BRAID Fellowship project Writing the Wrongs of AI. Designed by Ray Interactive with the help of the WWAI participants\, Human Verses Machine invites writers and readers to ask: who truly benefits from the current AI explosion? A post-performance panel discussion will delve deeper into the ethical\, practical\, and existential issues faced by the publishing industry in an age of AI. \n\n\n\nIn this special event Pip Thornton is joined by Camilla Grudova\, Jan Rutherford\, and Burkhard Schafer. \n\n\n\nThis project is funded by the Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) programme with funds received from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupported by Creative Informatics.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/page-against-the-machine-writing-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh International Book Festival,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240820T153000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240820T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T093745
CREATED:20240724T103019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240808T112443Z
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SUMMARY:Recycling a Hospital Writing Workshop: Poetry\, Memory and Future Dreaming
DESCRIPTION:Can stories from the past inspire dreams of the future? Recycling a Hospital encourages us to think about the Edinburgh Futures Institute’s history as a place of care\, and how we can carry stories from the hospital’s past meaningfully into the future. Join us as we use simple techniques to explore how poetry can be a portal for our memories of the old Royal Infirmary and ideas of how care will take shape at the Futures Institute for years to come. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupported by Edinburgh Futures Institute.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/recycling-a-hospital-writing-workshop-poetry-memory-and-future-dreaming/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh International Book Festival,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240822T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240822T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T093745
CREATED:20240808T102041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240812T144833Z
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SUMMARY:James Crawford: Traces of the Past
DESCRIPTION:The search for hidden landscapes drives the work of Shetland-born author James Crawford\, whose books have explored borders\, lost buildings\, and – in conjunction with his BBC series Scotland from the Sky – the views revealed by photography from the air. Today he talks with Dan Richards about his latest work\, Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland\, in a conversation about searching for the nation’s abandoned buildings and landmarks.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupported by Edinburgh Futures Institute.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/james-crawford-traces-of-the-past/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh International Book Festival,Talk/Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240823T181500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240823T191500
DTSTAMP:20260407T093745
CREATED:20240724T104437Z
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SUMMARY:Words from the Wards: Jennifer Williams
DESCRIPTION:In Spring 2024 we called for people from Edinburgh to submit stories about the former Royal Infirmary\, to capture and honour the experiences and memories that people connect with the building’s previous life. Join us as we bring together local people from across Edinburgh alongside special guest Jennifer Williams to perform their work and commemorate the building’s rich history. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupported by Edinburgh Futures Institute.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/words-from-the-wards-jennifer-williams/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh International Book Festival,Talk/Discussion,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T174500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240918T191500
DTSTAMP:20260407T093745
CREATED:20240816T085250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241009T115800Z
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SUMMARY:A Conversation about the Edinburgh Conversations
DESCRIPTION:The Edinburgh Conversations\, which took place between 1981 and 1988 under the auspices of the University of Edinburgh\, played a significant role in easing tensions between East and West at the time of the Cold War. \n\n\n\nExactly 40 years ago\, in September 1984\, the fourth set of Conversations took place in Moscow. Held alternately in Edinburgh and Moscow\, the Conversations brought together senior academics\, diplomats and military officials from the Soviet Union\, the United States and the United Kingdom. The key figure was the Professor of Defence Studies at the University of Edinburgh\, Professor John Erickson\, a leading expert on the Soviet military\, who was held in equally high esteem in the Kremlin and in the Pentagon. Another key figure was Michael Westcott\, a senior administrator at the University\, who acted as Secretary to the Conversations and without whose tireless efforts behind the scenes\, the Conversations might never have succeeded. \n\n\n\nIn this event\, Retired US Air Force Colonel Fred Clark Boli\, who undertook his PhD at the University of Edinburgh and who worked closely with Professor Erickson during the Edinburgh Conversations\, was formerly US Department of Defense representative to the Conversations and an expert on Russian affairs\, will be in conversation with John Sturrock KC\, also a graduate of the University and now one of the UK’s leading mediators\, who was a close friend of Michael Westcott and who assisted him in the Conversations and has access to his private papers about them. \n\n\n\nFrom their personal knowledge\, our conversationalists will discuss what happened in the Edinburgh Conversations\, how they were conducted and why they were successful. They will contemplate\, in the context of the current global situation\, what might be done in 2024 to replicate the approach\, focusing on the process\, personalities and relationships which sustained the initiative and how these same ideas might be applicable today\, exploring underlying themes such as hosting\, hospitality and humility at times of hostility\, distrust and suspicion. \n\n\n\nThe photo in the title card shows Professor John Erickson (front right) and a group of participants in the Conversations in the mid eighties. Courtesy of John Sturrock\, circa 1986. \n\n\n\nAbout the Conversationalists\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Fred Clark Boli\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Fred Clark Boli\, Colonel\, US Air Force\, Retired\, was educated at the US Air Force Academy and the University of Notre Dame\, majoring in Soviet Studies. He served in the US Air Force and was decorated with the Silver Star for Gallantry\, the Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Flying Cross twice. He was Assistant Air Attache in the American Embassy in Moscow from 1976-1978 and thereafter Squadron Commander of the 23rd Tactical Fighter Wing and Chief of the Pacific-East Division of the US Air Force. \n\n\n\nHe was a Post-Graduate Fellow at the Department of Defence Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 1985-1986 and participated in the Edinburgh Conversations from 1985 until their conclusion in 1989. He served as a Deputy Director and Military Assistant in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1986-1992. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1995 with a PhD in Russian History. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Sturrock KC\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Sturrock graduated with a First Class Honours degree in law from the University of Edinburgh in 1980\, where he was Senior President of the Students Association. Following a career at the Scottish Bar\, he moved into the field of conflict resolution. As founder and senior mediator at Core Solutions\, John is recognised as one of the leading mediators in the UK\, with an international reputation. He is identified as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Who’s Who Legal\, is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. \n\n\n\nIn 2019\, John conducted a well-received review for the Scottish Government into allegations of bullying in NHS Highland. He was a member of the Stewarding Group of the first Citizens Assembly in Scotland and is a founder of Collaborative Scotland\, an initiative to encourage respectful dialogue in Scottish politics and public affairs\, In 2022\, he published the second volume of his book entitled A Mediator’s Musings. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Information\n\n\n\nEntry will be via the Edinburgh Futures Institute south entrance on Porters Walk (opposite Tribe Yoga). \n\n\n\nThis event will be photographed/recorded\, and may be used for future marketing\, promotional or archive purposes. If you would prefer not to be photographed/recorded\, please let us know at the event.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/a-conversation-about-the-edinburgh-conversations/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240919T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T093745
CREATED:20240821T143450Z
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SUMMARY:The Digital Museum Conference
DESCRIPTION:What is the relationship between the digital and the museum? This question is at the heart of a 4- year Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) project\, Decolonising the Museum: Digital Repatriation of the Gaidinliu Collection from the UK to India (DiMuse)\, from which this 2-day workshop emerges. \n\n\n\nWe ask this question to tease out the multiple ways in which collections and objects housed in museums can be remediated and remade in new contexts. It enables us to think through what the ‘digital’ and the ‘analogue’ are\, particularly in light of how the object\, now transformed through printing\, 3D imagery\, video\, sound\, photography\, and sophisticated photogrammetry tools\, evoke complex questions around what the ‘object’ embodies and how various audiences respond to them. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will take place over two days from Thursday 19th – Friday 20th September in Edinburgh. Attendance is free\, but due to limited spaces please register above to reserve your space. Registration will take place on the morning of Thursday 19th. Our venue is to be confirmed but the workshop will take place in or around University of Edinburgh central campus. \n\n\n\nA full programme will be available shortly. \n\n\n\nSpeakers include: \n\n\n\n\nJelena Porsanger (Sámi Museum in Karasjok)\n\n\n\nNathaniel Majaw (St. Anthony’s College)\n\n\n\nThupten Kelsang (St Anthony’s College)\n\n\n\nCara Krmpotich (University of Toronto)\n\n\n\nGwyneria Isaac (Smithsonian)\n\n\n\nJoshua Bell (Smithsonian)\n\n\n\nNoel Lobley (University of Virginia)\n\n\n\nJohn Harries (University of Edinburgh)\n\n\n\nMridu Rai (UCL)\n\n\n\nPaul Basu (University of Oxford)\n\n\n\nMark Elliot (University of Cambridge)\n\n\n\n\nKeynote Lecture (Thursday 19th): ‘Digital Ways of Knowing’ by Haidy Geismar\, Professor of Anthropology\, UCL. \n\n\n\nLocation to be announced.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-digital-museum-conference/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240924T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240924T210000
DTSTAMP:20260407T093745
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SUMMARY:Speculative Futures Meet-Up #3: Futures Boardgames
DESCRIPTION:Speculative Futures Central Scotland is delighted to invite you to an in-person evening event about Futures Boardgames. \n\n\n\nWe’ll first hear from Marion Lean\, a design researcher who has developed several ‘serious games’ as part of her work for clients like Defra\, and the Pensions Regulator. She’ll share stories about creating games with government\, and getting policy people to play games. \n\n\n\nWe’ll then open up Andthen’s collection of Futures Boardgames — we’ve got some quick card based games\, some longer form sit-down board games\, and we’ve even got our own prototype game you can test. Some of these are pictured\, some of these we still need to print out\, and some of these we’re still bidding on on eBay 😬!We’ll all break off into groups\, play at least one game\, maybe more if there’s time\, and then come back together.We’ll finish the evening with a recap — we can all share what we played\, what was involved\, and then reflect on the experience.Speculative Futures Central Scotland is programmed by Andthen and the Data + Design Lab based at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. We are interested in hosting discussions about applied futures — we want to learn about how people are addressing long-term issues in their organisations\, from understanding the role of long-term thinking in policy design to understanding the challenges of using futures in large corporates. Speculative Futures Central Scotland is a component chapter of the global Speculative Futures community.Agenda \n\n\n\n18:30 — Join us for a drink and a catch up \n\n\n\n19:00 — Intro from Santini and Marion \n\n\n\n19:20 — Play boardgames \n\n\n\n20:30 — Group feedback and reflection \n\n\n\n21:00 — Close \n\n\n\nFor questions\, email ddl.efi@ed.ac.uk or freyja@studioandthen.com
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/speculative-futures-meet-up-3-futures-boardgames/
LOCATION:South Block\, 60-64 Osborne Street\, Glasgow\, Scotland\, G1 5QH\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240925T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241004T170000
DTSTAMP:20260407T093745
CREATED:20240910T144606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240910T144608Z
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SUMMARY:FinTech Scotland Festival 
DESCRIPTION:Fintech Scotland Festival will take place between 25 September 2024 and 04 October 2024 across Scotland. \n\n\n\nThe festival will contain conferences\, meet-ups\, morning breakfast sessions\, evening networking events and much more. \n\n\n\nCheck the Fintech Scotland Festival website for dates and venues.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/fintech-scotland-festival/
CATEGORIES:Conference,Financial Services & FinTech,Talk/Discussion,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240926T083000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240926T163000
DTSTAMP:20260407T093745
CREATED:20240716T142744Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240716T143038Z
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SUMMARY:Annual Data Conference 2024: Data\, Deepfakes and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Data and artificial intelligence has played an increasingly prominent role in elections in recent years. 2024 is packed with democratic elections\, in countries including the UK\, United States and India\, but what impact will data and AI have – both positive and negative? \n\n\n\nHow are rogue actors spreading disinformation and deploying plausible deepfakes to influence elections – and undermine our trust in democracy more generally? \n\n\n\nHow can democratic societies counter those threats  – and more importantly\, how can we build better future democracies by regulating and controlling AI and data effectively? \n\n\n\nHear from experts on these and a range of other issues around the complex interplay between artificial intelligence\, data and democracy.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/annual-data-conference-2024-data-deepfakes-and-democracy/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240926T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240929T103000
DTSTAMP:20260407T093745
CREATED:20241104T095130Z
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SUMMARY:The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join this new online reading group hosted by The Binks Hub\, led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. \n\n\n\nThis reading group\, open to all\, will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.  The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods.  We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings\, but this is not required.  You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group\, but you should have an interest in creative methods. \n\n\n\nFor the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time.  Once we have a group established\, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in.  We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion. \n\n\n\nHow often will we meet?\n\n\n\nThe group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below.  Generally\, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday).  We will use a Teams link which is here: \n\n\n\nJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 348 984 652 522Passcode: rzmyJC \n\n\n\nPreparation\n\n\n\nYou are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you. \n\n\n\nOur format for the discussion will be:\n\n\n\n\n1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think\, feel\, wonder about)\n\n\n\n30 minutes – Open discussion\n\n\n\n5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.\n\n\n\n\nAutumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group. \n\n\n\nIf you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nDateReadingThurs 26th Sep\, 9.30-10.30Haseman\, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy\, 118\, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk)Wed 2nd Oct\, 9.30- 10.30van Rooyen\, H.\, & d’Abdon\, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change\, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103Wed 9th  Oct\, 9.30-10.30Vicki Harman\, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection\, International Journal of Social Research Methodology\, 23:1\, 23-36\, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285No meeting this week\, October holiday for schools in Edinburgh Thurs 24th Oct\, 9.30-10.30Chapter 11\, Hearing Urban Regeneration by  Jaqueline Waldock in Bull\, M and Back\, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader\, Oxford: BergThurs 31st Oct\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 7th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 14th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 21st Nov\, 9.30-10.30 No meeting this week\, PGR graduation week Thurs 5th Dec\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester) \n\n\n\nSome books for the list:\n\n\n\nLeavy\, P. (2015). Method Meets Art\, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press. \n\n\n\nDenzin\, N. K.\, Lincoln\, Y. S.\, & Smith\, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors\, Norman K. Denzin\, Yvonna S. Lincoln\, Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Sage.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-binks-hub-creative-research-methods-reading-group-2/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Doors Open Days at Edinburgh Futures Institute
DESCRIPTION:Discover how the University of Edinburgh has transformed the category-A listed Old Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh into Edinburgh Futures Institute\, a new futures-focused space for learning\, research and innovation. The building was originally designed by David Bryce\, one of Scotland’s leading Victorian architects\, and is a beautiful example of the Scottish Baronial style. The redevelopment allows Bryce’s original design to sing out\, whilst elegant new spaces enable its new purpose. There are state-of-the-art teaching facilities\, rooms for co-working with industry\, public and third sector partners\, incubation areas for businesses\, labs for innovation and prototyping\, and exhibition and performance spaces. \n\n\n\nNo registration required\, just drop-in between 10am – 4pm on Doors Open Days weekend. Explore the building\, see our exhibitions and art installations\, meet staff and students and take part in a range of exciting hands-on drop-in activities suitable for all ages! \n\n\n\nGo to Doors Open Day 2024 programme
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/doors-open-days-at-edinburgh-futures-institute-sat-28/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240929T160000
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CREATED:20240912T142420Z
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SUMMARY:Doors Open Days at Edinburgh Futures Institute
DESCRIPTION:Discover how the University of Edinburgh has transformed the category-A listed Old Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh into Edinburgh Futures Institute\, a new futures-focused space for learning\, research and innovation. The building was originally designed by David Bryce\, one of Scotland’s leading Victorian architects\, and is a beautiful example of the Scottish Baronial style. The redevelopment allows Bryce’s original design to sing out\, whilst elegant new spaces enable its new purpose. There are state-of-the-art teaching facilities\, rooms for co-working with industry\, public and third sector partners\, incubation areas for businesses\, labs for innovation and prototyping\, and exhibition and performance spaces. \n\n\n\nNo registration required\, just drop-in between 10am – 4pm on Doors Open Days weekend. Explore the building\, see our exhibitions and art installations\, meet staff and students and take part in a range of exciting hands-on drop-in activities suitable for all ages! \n\n\n\nGo to Doors Open Day 2024 programme
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/doors-open-days-at-edinburgh-futures-institute-sun-29/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Tech Tuesdays #3: Automation - Your New Business Partner
DESCRIPTION:Kick start your day with a breakfast session exploring how automation and artificial intelligence could run the back office of your tourism or hospitality business. \n\n\n\nWhether you’re seeking to enhance your customer experience or streamline operations and admin\, this session is for you. \n\n\n\nDon’t miss this chance to see how smart technology can be your hardest-working employee. You’ll leave with practical ideas to make your business run smoother\, freeing you up to focus on what matters most – your customers. \n\n\n\nIn this session\, you’ll learn: \n\n\n\n• What automation actually means for small businesses• How AI can handle laborious tasks like bookings\, invoices\, and staff rotas• Real examples of hotels and tour companies saving time and money with these tools• Simple ways to start using automation\, even if you’re not tech-savvy \n\n\n\nNo tech knowledge needed – just bring your curiosity and your appetite for both breakfast and business growth! \n\n\n\nThe session will be hosted by Director of Traveltech for Scotland\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Joshua Ryan-Saha. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nPedro Moreira\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPedro Moreira is a Director at Aphy – a cloud based automation company that supports hospitality businesses to streamline their support operations 24/7\, saving them time spent on repetitive tasks. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrew Guy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrew Guy is the Managing Director of DF Intelligence\, who deliver intelligently automated processes that transform and streamline work across a business’s finance and HR operations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho Should Attend?\n\n\n\nThis event is designed for owners\, managers\, and decision-makers within Edinburgh’s tourism sector\, including attractions\, experiences\, hotels\, B&Bs\, restaurants\, and bars.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/tech-tuesdays-3-automation-your-new-business-partner/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion,Tourism & Festivals
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SUMMARY:The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join this new online reading group hosted by The Binks Hub\, led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. \n\n\n\nThis reading group\, open to all\, will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.  The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods.  We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings\, but this is not required.  You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group\, but you should have an interest in creative methods. \n\n\n\nFor the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time.  Once we have a group established\, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in.  We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion. \n\n\n\nHow often will we meet?\n\n\n\nThe group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below.  Generally\, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday).  We will use a Teams link which is here: \n\n\n\nJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 348 984 652 522Passcode: rzmyJC \n\n\n\nPreparation\n\n\n\nYou are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you. \n\n\n\nOur format for the discussion will be:\n\n\n\n\n1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think\, feel\, wonder about)\n\n\n\n30 minutes – Open discussion\n\n\n\n5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.\n\n\n\n\nAutumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group. \n\n\n\nIf you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nDateReadingThurs 26th Sep\, 9.30-10.30Haseman\, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy\, 118\, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk)Wed 2nd Oct\, 9.30- 10.30van Rooyen\, H.\, & d’Abdon\, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change\, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103Wed 9th  Oct\, 9.30-10.30Vicki Harman\, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection\, International Journal of Social Research Methodology\, 23:1\, 23-36\, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285No meeting this week\, October holiday for schools in Edinburgh Thurs 24th Oct\, 9.30-10.30Chapter 11\, Hearing Urban Regeneration by  Jaqueline Waldock in Bull\, M and Back\, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader\, Oxford: BergThurs 31st Oct\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 7th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 14th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 21st Nov\, 9.30-10.30 No meeting this week\, PGR graduation week Thurs 5th Dec\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester) \n\n\n\nSome books for the list:\n\n\n\nLeavy\, P. (2015). Method Meets Art\, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press. \n\n\n\nDenzin\, N. K.\, Lincoln\, Y. S.\, & Smith\, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors\, Norman K. Denzin\, Yvonna S. Lincoln\, Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Sage.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-binks-hub-creative-research-methods-reading-group-3/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Open Methods for Digital Conservation of Historic Musical Instruments
DESCRIPTION:As the harvesting of materials that are traditionally used for building musical instruments become more tightly regulated\, we need to look at how we can continue to study and preserve historic musical instruments. Preserving musical instruments digitally is one solution\, but raises questions on how we might continue to study and interact with them. We must also consider the problem of how to make the tools authored for digital conservation maintainable and accessible.  \n\n\n\nThis talk discusses work carried out at the NEMUS project on the topic of digital conservation of historic stringed instruments with three themes: Measurement\, Analysis and Interaction.  \n\n\n\n“Measurement” considers the risks during the measurement process\, particularly to historic stringed instrument soundboards. As such\, non-contact laser Doppler velocimetry methods for measuring vibration are appealing\, but are prohibitively expensive.  \n\n\n\n“Analysis” focuses on the creation of an open source framework for interacting with a novel finite difference scheme for plates under general elastic boundary conditions.  \n\n\n\n“Interaction” looks at preserving the sensory experience of playing a historic instrument after it has been digitised\, in particular 17th century harpsichords.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Hamilton\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Hamilton is a twice graduate from the University of Edinburgh in Acoustics and Music Technology\, an apprenticed luthier\, and currently a researcher as part of the NEMUS project at the University of Bologna. Matthew’s research interest lie at the intersection between research software engineering\, creative applications of computer programming pedagogy\, interfaces for musical expression and numerical simulation for sonic art. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/open-methods-for-digital-conservation-of-historic-musical-instruments/
LOCATION:Room 2.35\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241005T170000
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SUMMARY:Alternative Futures – Who Decides?
DESCRIPTION:The Binks Hub and the Ripple Project warmly invites you to an exhibition of co-created art that challenges the status quo and offers an alternative view of what communities need to flourish. \n\n\n\nExhibiting in partnership with Dovecot Studios\, the world-renowned tapestry studio in the heart of Edinburgh\, ‘Alternative Futures – Who Decides?’ is the result of a collaboration between The Binks Hub at the University of Edinburgh and The Ripple Project\, a grassroots\, community-led charity\, using creativity and the arts to co-create community-driven research that makes a difference to people’s lives. \n\n\n\nFree drop-in workshops and activities: \n\n\n\n\nA Map of Dreams for a Future Edinburgh\, a collage workshop with Autumn Roesch-Marsh – Saturday 5th October\, drop-in between 12pm-1.30pm\n\n\n\nEkphrastic writing activity – available throughout the exhibition\n\n\n\nWeaving the community tapestry – available throughout the exhibition\n\n\n\nMaking and Drawing an Alternative Future Town with artist Bobby Sayers – Thursday 3rdOctober\, drop-in between 12pm-5pm\n\n\n\n\nPlease register your intended visit on Eventbrite
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/alternative-futures-who-decides/
LOCATION:Dovecot Studios\, 10 Infirmary Street\, Edinburgh\, EH1 1LT
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241007T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241007T193000
DTSTAMP:20260407T093745
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SUMMARY:Jeanette Winterson in Conversation with Ameca
DESCRIPTION:Artificial intelligence is advancing at an ever-increasing rate\, prompting questions about how these developments will impact all aspects of our society\, learning\, and the arts. What better way to tease out these questions than a conversation between an author and a robot. Join novelist Jeanette Winterson as she speaks with Ameca\, the most advanced humanoid robot. Their conversation will be followed by a panel event exploring these themes further. This is the opening event of our Learning Curves season\, held in partnership with the National Robotarium. \n\n\n\n\n\nJeanette Winterson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She published her first novel\, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit\, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories\, as well as children’s books\, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields\, London. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmeca\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmeca is an advanced humanoid robot based at the National Robotarium in Edinburgh. The world-leading centre for robotics and AI purchased Ameca – the first UK facility to do so – in their efforts to build public trust and adoption of robotics.Prior to this\, Ameca was based in Cornwall\, at Engineered Arts studios\, who created the cutting-edge humanoid robot. She is designed as a platform for AI and human-robot interaction research\, demonstrating the latest advancements in robotics and artificial intelligence. Ameca is particularly notable for her highly realistic facial expressions and ability to engage in natural conversations\, making her an ideal tool for exploring how robots can interact with humans in more intuitive and human-like ways. By showcasing Ameca’s capabilities through its public outreach and education programmes\, the National Robotarium will seek to break down barriers and build trust between humans and robots. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIngo Keller\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a software\, AI\, and robotics engineer with over 20 years of experience in science and industry\, Ingo is leading the National Robotariumʼs growing team of robotics engineers as they test and develop new technologies and systems to address real-world challenges. He has in-depth\, hands-on experience with many robotic systems\, including all phases of software development\, life-cycle management and DevOps tooling. Ingo co-founded and led engineering teams in robotics\, software architecture\, and database management systems at several start-up companies. Throughout this time\, he developed an understanding of the potential of emerging technologies for addressing industry challenges. Ingoʼs passion lies in disseminating the knowledge and expertise of the National Robotariumʼs talented team. His aim is to foster robotics skills across various sectors\, ensuring individuals are equipped with the necessary tools to operate and manage robotics and AI. He is also dedicated to advocating the positive impact of these technologies on society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJL Williams (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage Credit: Gintare Kulyte\n\n\n\n\n\nBooks by JL Williams include Condition of Fire (Shearsman\, 2011)\, Locust and Marlin (Shearsman\, 2014)\, House of the Tragic Poet (If A Leaf Falls Press\, 2016)\, After Economy (Shearsman\, 2017) and Origin (Shearsman\, 2022). Published widely in journals\, her poetry has been translated into numerous languages. She has read at international literature festivals and venues in the UK\, Sweden\, Germany\, Denmark\, Turkey\, Cyprus\, Canada\, Hungary\, Romania\, Montenegro and the US. She wrote the libretto for the opera Snow which debuted in London in 2017\, was awarded a bursary to develop a new opera with composer Samantha Fernando at the Royal Opera House and was a librettist for the award-winning 2020 covid-response Episodes project by The Opera Story. She was commissioned to write the 2023 English Touring Opera children’s opera\, The Wish Gatherer. Williams is hopeful about the simple and mysterious power of poetry that allows us to know ourselves\, each other and the world more deeply.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/jeanette-winterson-in-conversation-with-ameca/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241008T173000
DTSTAMP:20260407T093745
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SUMMARY:Wikidata\, biographical lives\, and linked infrastructures of women’s work 1870-1950
DESCRIPTION:The rise of Wikidata represents a quiet revolution in knowledge infrastructure. This paper enquires into this knowledge base as an infrastructure at the centre of contemporary knowledge ecosystems. Rather than read Wikidata at scale\, this paper employs a particular frame through which to explore the ideologies Wikidata has adopted and reproduces. This frame is Beyond Notability\, a knowledge base that seeks to document women’s work in archaeology\, history\, and heritage between 1870 and 1950 through original archival research. Beyond Notability draws on and responds to the Wikidata data model\, and this paper emerges from our experiences interacting with Wikidata to produce linked data biography. In foregrounding the tensions between historically specific phenomena and classificatory logics\, our work stresses the value of using practice-based ontology development to investigate large-scale knowledge infrastructures.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Baker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJames Baker is the Director of Digital Humanities at the University of Southampton. A historian by training\, he works at the intersection of history\, cultural heritage\, and digital technologies. He is a Software Sustainability Institute Fellow\, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society\, a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Peer Review College\, a convenor of the Institute of Historical Research Digital History seminar\, and a Trustee of the Programming Historian (Charity Number 1195875).   \n\n\n\nPrior to joining Southampton\, he held positions of Senior Lecturer in Digital History and Archives at the University of Sussex and Director of the Sussex Humanities Lab\, Digital Curator at the British Library\, and Postdoctoral Fellow with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/wikidata-biographical-lives-and-linked-infrastructures-of-womens-work-1870-1950/
LOCATION:Room 0.10\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Talk/Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20241008T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241008T190000
DTSTAMP:20260407T093746
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SUMMARY:Literature is not a Luxury with Bernardine Evaristo
DESCRIPTION:‘Literature is not a luxury\, but essential to our civilisation’ said Bernardine Evaristo when she was elected President of the Royal Society of Literature. Alongside her career as an award-winning novelist\, Bernardine Evaristo is both a teacher and a huge advocate for the importance of arts education. Join her at the Futures Institute where she will be talking to Michael Pedersen\, Writer in Residence at The University of Edinburgh\, about arts provision in the education system\, the importance of creativity in young people\, and how creativity positively impacts society as a whole.  \n\n\n\n\n\nBernardine Evaristo\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernardine Evaristo won the Booker Prize 2019 with her eighth book\, Girl\, Woman\, Other\, the first black woman and black British person to win it. Her novel Mr Loverman (2013) will be broadcast as an eight-part drama on BBC One this autumn\, adapted by Nathaniel Price. Her many arts inclusion programmes includes Black Britain:Writing Back for Penguin UK\, re-publishing books from the past. She is the current Literature Mentor for the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Initiative. She has received nearly 80 awards\, honours and nominations and is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and President of the Royal Society of Literature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Pedersen (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Pedersen is a prize-winning Scottish poet and author\, and the Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University. His prose debut\, Boy Friends\, was published by Faber & Faber in 2022 — it was a Sunday Times Critics Choice and shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction at Scotland’s National Book Awards. His third collection\, The Cat Prince & Other Poems (Little Brown)\, won the Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Best Poetry 2023. Pedersen has also been shortlisted for the Forward Prizes for Poetry and won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship. His work has been praised by the likes of Stephen Fry\, Sara Pascoe\, Nicola Sturgeon\, Jackie Kay\, Alan Cumming\, Kae Tempest & many other fine minds.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/literature-is-not-a-luxury-with-bernardine-evaristo/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241015T193000
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SUMMARY:Rooting Decolonial Education: Routes for Repair and Liberation
DESCRIPTION:As part of Black History Month\, the panellists will engage with Black presence and Black Studies in relation to education in different contexts around the world. The audience will be invited to engage in the exercise re-imagining Afrofutures\, Blackness and the transformative nature of reparations in education. \n\n\n\n\n\nDee Marco\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDerilene (Dee) Marco is creative feminist scholar who holds a Senior Lecturer position in Media Studies at Wits University in Johannesburg\, South Africa. Dee’s research pivots around social and cultural practices and experiences of the everyday\, particularly in relation to mothering identities\, person-making\, kin and caregiving as labour/ work. Dee has written on apartheid and post-apartheid South African cinema\, black women’s lives and stories and is the co-editor of Sasinda Futhi Siselapha (still Here): Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty Six Years Since 1994 (2021) and Transforming Pedagogy\, a workbook for parents (2023). Dee is the founder of the multimodal research project\, Mother.Lab\, which houses a mobile complaints space for mothers and caregivers\, called House of Complaints and an online data visualisation experience\, called Tiny Letters\, of women’s birth/ becoming mother stories as ethnographic experiences of memory. Dee is invested in alternative methods of research through thinking with the body and everyday stories\, in which there are many beautiful and scary moments of heavy theoretical lifting.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman is an historian of abolitionist ideas and currently research fellow at the University of Birmingham. Having mobilised global movements such as ‘Why Isn’t My Professor Black?’ and ‘Why Is My Curriculum White?’\, their anti-colonial archival research\, which treats colonial slavery as a disciplinary/educational institution\, asks ‘Why Isn’t Our Apprenticeship Abolished?’ A co-ordinating member\, in both 2015 and 2020\, of Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford\, a Cast in Stone research fellow interviewing Bristolians about the contestation of the statue of Edward Colston\, and a Henry Moore Institute podcaster explaining Britain’s neglected memorials to abolition\, they are a critic of what Frantz Fanon has denounced as Britain’s colonial ‘World of Statues’—obstinately retained and deceitfully explained.Their recent work includes convening ‘Undoing 2007; Preparing for 2038’—a game-changing public conversation\, reviewed in Museum Geographies and The Birmingham Dispatch\, about Abolition\, Birmingham\, and Commemoration\, and co-hosting\, as member of the Mayor of London’s Community Advisory Group\, the 2024 annual ceremony for the UNESCO Day for Remembering the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Abolition. In November 2024\, they will respond to the book Britain’s Black Debt\, by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies\, during the University of Oxford’s Seminar on Reparations. Their research-informed public engagement is the basis of a book\, which they are writing\, titled The House by The Rivers Of Blood: Birmingham’s Hidden History of British Anti-Slavery\, in which they reimagine the story we should teach the next generation\, of how we got free—if we got free. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatucha Bento (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Katucha Bento is a Lecturer in Race and Decolonial Studies and Honorary Chaplain in Candomblé at the University of Edinburgh\, and the co-founder of the Free Afro-Brazilian University (UNAFRO). Her main inspirations are in quilombo and samba communities’ epistemologies and praxis\, reaching out to Black feminists and Queer subversive language to promote ethics of caring and power to the people. Guide-mother/auntie of Chizara\, Jaxon and Chibueze\, children of the Black diaspora. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVictoria Ogoegbunam Okoye (chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVictoria Ogoegbunam Okoye is Lecturer in Black Geographies at the University of Edinburgh. She is shaped from indigenous and diaspora Igbo heritages and her lived experiences in the US\, Ghana\, Nigeria\, and UK contexts. Her learnings\, collaborations\, and relations with extended family\, youth\, creatives\, artists and cultural workers inform her research and teaching\, which attend to the interdisciplinary spatial practices of Black life to inform and expand geographical notions of place. Her knowing is shaped by commitments to the relationality between African and African diasporic experiences and intellectual thought\, and she undertakes her work as a form of Black creative\, collaborative and spiritual practice.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/rooting-decolonial-education-routes-for-repair-and-liberation/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:AISOMA: Wayne McGregor x Edinburgh Futures Institute
DESCRIPTION:Image Credit: Studio Wayne McGregor \n\n\n\nStudio Wayne McGregor will deliver a creative residency culminating in a performance. The creative residency will centre on McGregor’s AI.Soma – a world’s first\, machine learning choreographic tool developed specifically for McGregor with Google Arts and Culture Lab. During the residency\, 12 students from a range of dance backgrounds studying on MSc Dance Science & Education programme at Moray House School of Education and Sport\, will be introduced to the AI tool\, learn excerpts of McGregor’s AI repertory and use AI.Soma to develop their own choreographic material\, which Studio Wayne McGregor artists will then develop into a 20 minute public sharing performed by the dance artists. This Residency offers an opportunity for the Participants to gain exclusive insight into McGregor’s artistic process\, and the creative process of his closest collaborators\, Company Wayne McGregor. Studio Wayne McGregor has developed a consummate reputation for transformative approaches to how dance is taught\, learned\, and spoken about. To date\, over 100\,000 people of all ages and experiences have participated in our workshops and residencies across the UK and internationally\, from school children to adults\, and professional dancers to those who have never danced before. \n\n\n\n\n\nRebecca Bassett-Graham\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOriginally from New Zealand\, Rebecca Bassett-Graham trained as a contemporary major at the New Zealand School of Dance. After graduating in 2011\, she joined New Zealand Dance Company as an inaugural intern before moving to Townsville\, Australia to work with DanceNorth. Rebecca freelanced between New Zealand and Australia working with various choreographers including Ross McCormack and Sarah Foster-Sproull. She moved to London in 2013 and continued to work as a freelance dancer across the UK and Europe. Rebecca joined Company Wayne McGregor in 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Lyons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Lyons is a composer\, pianist and multi-instrumentalist. He is active in classical\, folk and jazz music. He recently soundtracked his first full-length feature film and he is much in demand as an arranger and orchestrator. He has founded some of Scotland’s most unusual bands: 8 piece Celtic-Balkan festival favourites Blue Giant Orkestar and the 9 piece contemporary vocal folk ensemble Samodiva Nestya. He also plays violin in the ensemble Hegedu. In the field of music technology\, he has been quite active in the live coding scene. Chris is known for playing an unusually large number of instruments and he is held in high regard as a music educator. He is a founder of ‘Leith New Music’\, the world’s most informal art-music event. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChair: Heather Rikic\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeather Rikic is the programme director of the University’s MSc Dance Science and Education programme and a teaching fellow on postgraduate and undergraduate courses at Moray House School of Education and Sport. Before moving to Edinburgh\, Heather performed for various independent contemporary choreographers in New York City\, USA and Belgrade\, Serbia; taught learners of various ages and abilities including as a teaching artist for Alonzo King LINES Dance Center (San Francisco\, USA)\, New York City Ballet’s education department\, KC Magacin (Belgrade\, Serbia)\, Dance Base (Edinburgh) and currently teaches Cunningham Technique® at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Glasgow). 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/aisoma-wayne-mcgregor-x-efi/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF
CATEGORIES:Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Performance
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SUMMARY:CTMF Flagship Lecture with Professor C. Thi Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Value Capture and Algorithmic Policies: Outsourcing our Values to Technology\n\n\n\nJoin this Centre for Technomoral Futures Flagship Lecture event\, in person or online\, where you will gain valuable insights from award-winning author and philosopher\, Professor C. Thi Nguyen\, on technology’s role in shaping human values. \n\n\n\nAbstract: The values that govern our lives are increasingly explicit: defined by algorithms and institutions to be as clear\, precise and quantifiable as possible. Think of gamified point systems in apps like FitBit or Duolingo\, likes and shares on Twitter and TikTok\, and knowledge metrics like citation rates\, impact factors and pageviews. In this talk\, Professor Nguyen explores two dangers of adopting these values as our own: value capture and value collapse. In value capture\, we outsource the process of deciding what to value to some company or technology\, no longer adjusting our values in light of our own rich experience of the world. In value collapse\, overly explicit values make us closed-minded about what’s important in the world. Join us as Professor Nguyen invites a conversation about the value of values\, and how to keep them ours. \n\n\n\nDon’t miss out on this thought-provoking event\, taking place on Friday 18 October at the Edinburgh Futures Institute and online. Doors open at 17.45. \n\n\n\nProfessor Nguyen’s lecture will be followed by a drinks reception. \n\n\n\nThis event is free\, but tickets are limited. Please register if you plan to attend.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/ctmf-flagship-lecture-with-professor-c-thi-nguyen/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Future of Education: Crisis
DESCRIPTION:The intersecting\, planetary-scale crises we face bring new urgency to the debate about the purpose of education. Climate catastrophe\, widening inequalities\, conflict\, pathogen spillovers\, new diseases\, failures of governance and technology acceleration all challenge us to ask again what education might be\, and what we need it to do. The first conversation in the series will focus on education through the crises of war\, emergency\, unrest and exclusion. It brings together a panel of high-profile leaders and campaigners for education in such contexts and will include the opportunity to hear from students who have lived through education in crisis in Pakistan and Gaza. It will also feature the launch of a new commissioned work from the Iranian poet Marjorie Lotfi\, based on the words of displaced and excluded women in Scotland. \n\n\n\n\n\nYasmine Sherif\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYasmine Sherif is the Executive Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW)\, the global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises. A lawyer specialized in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law (LL.M)\, she has over 30 years of experience with the United Nations and international NGOs.Ms. Sherif has served in some of the most crisis-affected areas of the world\, including Afghanistan and the Middle East\, the Balkans\, Cambodia\, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Sudan. She has also led teams in New York and Geneva – from where she continues to conduct regular missions to countries affected by armed conflicts\, forced displacement\, climate-induced disasters and other crises. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSir Julian Smith\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulian was recently appointed Executive Chair of the International Finance Facility for Education. Developed by former Prime Minister Gordon Brown\, IFFED is a Geneva-based foundation providing a financing engine for global education. It is specifically designed to tackle the education crisis in lower-middle-income countries. \n\n\n\nJulian has been the Member of Parliament for Skipton and Ripon since 2010. He was a Ministerial aid in the Department for International development from 2010-2015. From 2017-2019 he was Government Chief Whip during the Brexit period and led efforts to resolve the parliamentary impasse in Government and across parties in parliament. \n\n\n\nJulian was appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in July 2019. On behalf of the UK Government\, he led the negotiations that culminated in the “New Decade\, New Approach” which restored devolved Government to Northern Ireland. He was awarded Spectator magazine’s Minister of the Year in 2020 following the deal. \n\n\n\nDuring his time as Secretary of State\, Julian delivered same sex marriage and abortion legislation\, bringing Northern Ireland’s social laws into line with the rest of the UK. In addition Julian led the introduction of the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) (Northern Ireland) Act 2019 which established the Historical Institutional Abuse Redress Board and which delivered a redress scheme and compensation to victims of child abuse who had waited for decades for resolution. \n\n\n\nMore recently Julian has advised Prime Minister Rishi Sunak including on the Windsor Framework UK/EU reset deal and the recent restoration of government in Northern Ireland. He acted as mediator between the Royal College of Nurses and the Government to resolve the recent nurses strike and has worked on a number of other industrial and commercial disputes in Government. \n\n\n\nJulian currently Chairs the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero Taskforce on  Alternative Dispute Resolution for Electricity Network Infrastructure. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of Bath in the recent 2024 dissolution honours list for political and public service. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKainat Riaz\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKainat Riaz is an education advocate whose journey on this path began when her school-van was attacked by the Taliban. She decided to seek education as a revenge against that attack. Today\, she is an advocate for girls’ education and education in general\, and a co-founder and Director for girls’ education at ‘Beydaar Society’\, an NGO working in Pakistan to help promote peace & harmony by using education as a tool. Among other recognitions\, she has been decorated with a national award granted by the President of Pakistan\, Tamgha e Shuja’at (National Medal of Bravery)\, Human Rights Defender Award\, GG2 Award\, Ladies Fund Awards\, etc. She believes that through education this world can become a better and more peaceful place. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarjorie Lotfi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarjorie Lotfi was born in New Orleans\, moved to Tehran as a baby with her American mother and Persian father\, and fled Iran with one suitcase and an hour’s notice during the Iranian Revolution. After waiting with family for her father’s return in her mother’s tiny hometown in Ohio\, she lived in different parts of the US before moving to New York as a young lawyer in 1996 and then back and forth to the UK\, settling in the UK in 1999\, and in Scotland in 2005. Marjorie Lotfi’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies in the UK and US (including The Rialto\, Gutter\, Ambit\, Magma\, Rattle and Staying Human)\, included in Best Scottish Poems 2021 and performed on BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio 4. Her pamphlet Refuge\, poems about her childhood in revolutionary Iran\, was published by Tapsalteerie Press in 2018. She was one of the three winners of the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize in 2021\, and her first book-length collection\, The Wrong Person to Ask (Bloodaxe Books\, 2023) is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Frigenti\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaura Frigenti is a senior executive with 30 years of experience in global development gained through her service in multilateral organizations\, government\, nonprofit\, and more recently the private sector. She started her career at the World Bank\, where she worked for 20 years\, holding several technical and managerial positions in Africa\, Latin America and Eastern Europe. She was then appointed Director General of the Italian Overseas Development Agency\, with theresponsibility of setting up the newly created agency under the government of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. \n\n\n\nPrior to joining GPE\, Laura led the Global Development Assistance Service Practice at KPMG\, which supports initiatives that create real value for investors and for society. In the aftermath of the pandemic\, an increasing amount of her work related to vaccine distribution and COVID-related issues\, as well as supporting governments in implementing various types of social protection measures to sustain the most vulnerable groups.  Her senior roles at the World Bank\, where she worked extensively in the human development sector\, ashead of a bilateral development agency\, and more recently as head of a large practice in a global consulting firm\, give her a deep familiarity with GPE\, the issues that GPE is trying to address\, and the global development space where its work is situated. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmani Ahmed\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmani Ahmed is a Ph.D candidate at Edinburgh University Business School and a Council for At Risk Academics Home (cara.ngo) Fellow. Amani trained as an electrical engineer  and worked as Head of the International Relations at the Islamic University of Gaza.  Since 2023 she is a member of the EU- Higher Education Reform Experts- Palestine chamber  (HEREs). She has a research interest in women’s digital entrepreneurship\, entrepreneurial ecosystems in conflict contexts\, as well as internationalisation of Higher Education under siege and in conflict context. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Brown (co-chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Brown is Chair of the global children’s charity Theirworld and Executive Chair of the Global Business Coalition for Education. Since she founded Theirworld in 2002\, its campaigns\, advocacy and ground-breaking programmes have been rooted in the belief that every child deserves the best start in life\, a safe place to learn and skills for the future.Working with government\, business\, philanthropy and civil society\, Sarah has succeeded in creating lasting change for the world’s most vulnerable children. As a passionate advocate that every child should have the opportunity of an education\, Sarah has shifted international political will on the provision of education in emergencies\, and on the need for innovative funding. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Grant (co-chair)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz Grant is one of the University’s Assistant Principals with a remit for Global Health. She is Professor of Global Health and Development\, directs the Global Health Academy\,  convenes the Chaplaincy Committee and sits on the Advisory Board of the Academy of Sport and  on the Programme Board Education Beyond Borders. Liz co-directs the Global Compassion Initiative which explores the science and practice of compassion Her research spans global and planetary health and healthcare in contexts of poverty and conflict –   and compassion as the value base of the Sustainable Development Goals. She co-directs the MSc in Planetary Health in Edinburgh Futures Institute\, and the MSc Family Medicine in  the Usher Institute. 
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-future-of-education-crisis/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Edinburgh Futures Conversations,Learning Curves: Autumn 2024,Talk/Discussion
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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture of Professor Shannon Vallor
DESCRIPTION:The School of Philosophy\, Psychology and Language Sciences is very proud to announce the inaugural lecture of\, Professor Shannon Vallor\, which will take place in the Edinburgh Futures Institute\, with a private reception to follow. \n\n\n\nHer lecture is entitled\, ‘In a Mirror\, Dimly: Why AI Can’t Tell Our Stories\, and Why We Must’. \n\n\n\nThe event is open to the public and all colleagues\, friends and students are welcome to attend. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biography\n\n\n\n\n\nShannon Vallor\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Shannon Vallor serves as Director of the Centre for Technomoral Futures in the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI)\, and is Programme Director for EFI’s MSc in Data and AI Ethics. She holds the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence in the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Philosophy.  \n\n\n\nProfessor Vallor joined the Futures Institute in 2020 following a career in the United States as a leader in the ethics of emerging technologies\, including a post as a visiting AI Ethicist at Google from 2018-2020. She is the author of The AI Mirror: How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking (Oxford University Press\, 2024) and Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting (Oxford University Press\, 2016). She serves as advisor to government and industry bodies on responsible AI and data ethics. She is also Principal Investigator and Co-Director (with Professor Ewa Luger) of the UKRI research programme BRAID (Bridging Responsible AI Divides)\, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/inaugural-lecture-of-professor-shannon-vallor/
LOCATION:Edinburgh Futures Institute\, Level 0 Event Space\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Binks Hub – Creative Research Methods Reading Group
DESCRIPTION:Join this new online reading group hosted by The Binks Hub\, led by Dr Autumn Roesch-Marsh. \n\n\n\nThis reading group\, open to all\, will focus on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.  The emphasis will be on practice and the application of methods.  We may invite participants to experiment between reading group meetings\, but this is not required.  You do not have to be an academic or a student to join this reading group\, but you should have an interest in creative methods. \n\n\n\nFor the first few weeks I have identified readings ahead of time.  Once we have a group established\, I am happy to develop the list and add titles which the group are particularly interested in.  We may also invite staff or students with particular methods expertise to open our discussion. \n\n\n\nHow often will we meet?\n\n\n\nThe group will meet for 1 hour every week. The dates of each meeting are below.  Generally\, we will meet on Thursday mornings (except for a couple of exceptions when we will meet on a Wednesday).  We will use a Teams link which is here: \n\n\n\nJoin the meeting nowMeeting ID: 348 984 652 522Passcode: rzmyJC \n\n\n\nPreparation\n\n\n\nYou are asked to complete the reading ahead of the groups and write down any questions it raised for you. \n\n\n\nOur format for the discussion will be:\n\n\n\n\n1 minute response from each group member (this could be a creative response or just an overview of what it made you think\, feel\, wonder about)\n\n\n\n30 minutes – Open discussion\n\n\n\n5 minutes at the end – Summarising key takeaways or things we might think about bringing into our research practise.\n\n\n\n\nAutumn will keep a note of these and add them to an annotated bibliography which will be shared with the group. \n\n\n\nIf you do not have access to the reading please let Autumn know: a.roeschmarsh@ed.ac.uk \n\n\n\nSchedule\n\n\n\nDateReadingThurs 26th Sep\, 9.30-10.30Haseman\, B. (2006). A Manifesto for Performative Research. Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy\, 118\, p98-106. Microsoft Word – Eprints Cover Sheet.doc (core.ac.uk)Wed 2nd Oct\, 9.30- 10.30van Rooyen\, H.\, & d’Abdon\, R. (2020). Transforming Data into Poems: Poetic Inquiry Practices for Social and Human Sciences. Education as Change\, 24. https://doi.org/10.25159/1947-9417/8103Wed 9th  Oct\, 9.30-10.30Vicki Harman\, Benedetta Cappellini & Susana Campos (2020) Using Visual Art Workshops with Female Survivors of Domestic Violence in Portugal and England: A Comparative Reflection\, International Journal of Social Research Methodology\, 23:1\, 23-36\, DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2019.1672285No meeting this week\, October holiday for schools in Edinburgh Thurs 24th Oct\, 9.30-10.30Chapter 11\, Hearing Urban Regeneration by  Jaqueline Waldock in Bull\, M and Back\, L (eds) (2015) The Auditory Culture Reader\, Oxford: BergThurs 31st Oct\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 7th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 14th Nov\, 9.30-10.30 Thurs 21st Nov\, 9.30-10.30 No meeting this week\, PGR graduation week Thurs 5th Dec\, 9.30-10.30 (Final group for this semester) \n\n\n\nSome books for the list:\n\n\n\nLeavy\, P. (2015). Method Meets Art\, Second Edition Arts-Based Research Practice. (Second edition.). The Guilford Press. \n\n\n\nDenzin\, N. K.\, Lincoln\, Y. S.\, & Smith\, L. T. (2008). Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies / editors\, Norman K. Denzin\, Yvonna S. Lincoln\, Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Sage.
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/the-binks-hub-creative-research-methods-reading-group-4/
CATEGORIES:Reading Group
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SUMMARY:Critical Data Studies Cluster Coffee Morning
DESCRIPTION:The Critical Data Studies Cluster in EFI is an interdisciplinary initiative that welcomes people from across the University and beyond who study datafication and data-driven systems. Please join us for a morning coffee and natter to gather and meet others with similar research interests.No booking required. \n\n\n\nFor more information about the Critical Data Studies Cluster\, visit this page. \n\n\n\nImage credit: Fritzchens Fritz / Better Images of AI / GPU shot etched 1 / CC-BY 4.0 (from https://betterimagesofai.org/images?artist=FritzchensFritz&title=GPUshotetched1)
URL:https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/critical-data-studies-cluster-coffee-morning/
LOCATION:Room 1.82\, Edinburgh Futures Institute\, 1 Lauriston Place\, Edinburgh\, EH3 9EF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Coffee Morning
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