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Our research community

Our ambition is to build a holistic research environment that supports, encourages, rewards, and promotes research and its impacts. We are creating a culture of success, ambition, and engagement, by supporting research that makes meaningful and measurable change.

Affiliation programme

Our internal affiliation programme recognises, promotes and supports staff and postgraduate students of all career stages who contribute or would like to contribute to EFI’s research, education, innovation, and engagement activities.

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(UoE Staff and Students)

EFI Fellowships

Applications for our internal EFI Fellowships are open to academics across the University of Edinburgh. Eligibility criteria apply.

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(UoE Staff)

Visiting Fellowship Programme

Our Visiting Fellowship Programme is now closed.

Meet our 2025/26 fellows Meet our 2024/25 fellows

Digital research methods community

We are building an inclusive digital research methods community, which comes together regularly to share experiences, ideas and insights.

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Our sectors in focus

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Creative
industries

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Financial Services
& FinTech

Public
Services

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tourism, Travel
& festivals

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