The Edinburgh Futures Institute has awarded nine projects funding to support interdisciplinary research.
The projects that will receive up to £5,000 to explore a wide range of issues, such as fuel poverty, emergency services and the power of tech companies.
More than 30 projects entered the EFI Research Awards, and the judging panel found the calibre of entries to be very high.
Diverse issues
The projects that will receive up to £5,000 to explore a wide range of issues, such as fuel poverty, emergency services and the power of tech companies.
More than 30 projects entered the EFI Research Awards, and the judging panel found the calibre of entries to be very high.
The nine projects selected to be funded are:
- Hannah Rohde: Can machine learning and discourse-analytic techniques be leveraged to improve decisions made by ambulance call handlers about emergency incidents?
- Beverley Hood: How do we live with the dead in a digital age? What forms of digital memorialisation exist?
- Andrew Manches: How can we develop young children’s understanding of personal data
- Samantha Fawkner: How do we harness the opportunities of personal health data monitoring to encourage positive health behaviour and prepare young people for a data society in an inclusive, safe and empowering way?
- Kate Carter: How can digital data help housing associations to reduce fuel poverty?
- Kristina Konstantoni: How can business and public play spaces and cafes be reimagined and reclaimed as social just rights-reinforcing spaces for children?
- Pip Thornton: How can creative intervention and public art help us to think critically about data and the power of digital technology companies?
- Benjamin Bach: Which software tools exist to aid researchers and practitioners on all fields to create, design and use data visualizations in their daily work?
- Dave Murray-Rust: Can interactive data physicalisation engage a wide audience around data?
Forward-thinking initiative
The EFI Research Awards provide funding of up to £5,000 to staff from across the University to support research which identifies new interdisciplinary questions that can be taken forward as part of the Institute’s vision.
This is part of EFI’s mission to pioneer new interdisciplinary research with the potential of transforming people’s lives, weaving data science through the arts, humanities and social sciences to address major challenges in the economy, education and society.
