Reducing road accident deaths is one of the UN’s early Sustainable Development Goals, with a target date of 2020. The G7 Countries are already trending to miss the target. Professor Gordon Masterton asks whether Scotland …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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