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Join @edcdcs.bsky.social as they host their annual lecture, this year featuring a talk from Dorothy Berry, Digital Curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.

🗓️ 10 Dec | 4pm GMT
📍 Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute
💳 Free
🎟️ edin.ac/4im9vGu
How Users Imagine Archival Research - Edinburgh Futures Institute
This talk will focus on the development of JPCA Explore and how it reflects wider issues around creating human-scale digital projects.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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We’re still in Winter Graduation celebration mode! Congratulations once again to all Edinburgh Futures Institute graduates who received their scroll at yesterday’s ceremony!
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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We are delighted to celebrate Winter Graduation with our students in our beautiful building, following the ceremony at McEwan Hall. 🎓

Congratulations to all our graduates! We are so proud of your incredible achievement, and wish you all the best as you challenge, create, and change our futures! ✨
November 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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It was wonderful to hear from EFI Visiting Fellow, Dr Ramsha Naeem, yesterday!

During her talk, Dr Naeem discussed the differences between what AI ethics is & what management theorists think AI can be, & her work towards proposing an integrated model to bridge that gap.

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Professor Shannon Vallor and Dr Ramsha Naeem standing together, in front of a slide that reads: "AI Ethics and Future of Management Theory, Dr Ramsha Naeem, EFI Visiting Fellow, 25/11/2025." They are both smiling. Professor Vallor is wearing a grey jacket and scarf and Dr Naeem is wearing a traditional Pakistani outfit in black with red, green and gold floral embroidery. Dr Naeem presenting to the audience during her talk.
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Congratulations to our students who are joining the Winter Graduation at 11am, from all of us at Edinburgh Futures Institute!

We can’t wait to celebrate with you afterwards in our beautiful building!

Don’t forget, the ceremony can be streamed live: https://www.ed.ac.uk/graduation-ceremonies
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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We had a fantastic time hosting the launch of Venture Café Edinburgh on 20 November! Over 260 innovators gathered for the event, from founders to funders, to coders and creatives, highlighting the demand for a new collaborative heart in Scotland's innovation ecosystem 👉 https://edin.ac/4ojc7qe
Group of young adults engaged in conversation at a social gathering indoors with blurred background attendees. Professor Marion Thain, Director of Edinburgh Futures Institute Crowd gathered at an event People playing with lego blocks on a table
November 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Huge congratulations to Edinburgh Futures Institute students who will officially receive their scroll at the Winter Graduation ceremony tomorrow, 26 November, 11am!

The graduation ceremony can be streamed live from 10 minutes before the start time 👉 https://www.ed.ac.uk/graduation-ceremonies
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Join Speculative Futures Central Scotland at V&A Dundee for a night of futures board games — play, hack & create new ways to explore futures together.

🗓️ Tuesday, 2 December | 18:00 - 20:00
📍V&A Dundee
🎟️ https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/futures-board-games-night/
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Join us for a seminar on reframing the criminal justice system in Scotland, led by @thebinkshub.bsky.social & REALITIES.

🗓️ 3 Dec | 10am - 2:30pm GMT
📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute
💳 Free
🎟️ edin.ac/49yvk3w
Reframing Criminal Justice Professional Development Seminar - Edinburgh Futures Institute
A half-day event exploring and championing change within the Scottish criminal justice system.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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"One of the challenges of Generative AIs is they amplify existing behaviours, and that is both good and bad." @arfon.bsky.social

Watch Technomoral Conversations: How will AI change science? ▶️ edin.ac/3VSUXUt

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Technomoral Conversations: How Will AI Change Science? — Centre for Technomoral Futures
During this Technomoral Conversation, we will hear from Dr Emily Sullivan, Dr Eran Tal, Dr Arfon Smith, and Professor Anna Scaife on the impact of data driven machine learning and AI on science and kn...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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At Edinburgh Futures Institute, we connect students with partners to co-create solutions to complex challenges. MSc Data and AI Ethics student Chloe White exemplified this approach through her Student Challenge Project: a collaboration with VisitScotland.

Full story 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 👉 https://edin.ac/4oa2E4i
November 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Join us for the next @technomoralfutures.bsky.social event, featuring EFI Visiting Fellow, Dr Ramsha Naeem.

This seminar explores how established management theories can be revisited and extended through ethical lenses.

🗓️ 25 Nov | 12pm - 1pm GMT
📍 EFI & Online
💳 Free
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AI Ethics and the Future of Management Theory with Dr Ramsha Naeem - Edinburgh Futures Institute
Hear from EFI Visiting Fellow, Dr Ramsha Naeem on the need for interdisciplinary dialogue between AI ethics and management theory.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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📣 The Luksic Scholarship for Sustainability & Data at Edinburgh Futures Institute is now accepting applications! Applicants must be Chilean citizens domiciled in Chile. Covers full tuition fees plus stipend for living costs + travel to Edinburgh, for 2026-27 entry. Info 👉 https://edin.ac/43PfxJZ
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Join us for the next TravelTech Meetup ​for a discussion exploring the latest trends and opportunities shaping the future of TravelTech followed by plenty of time to network with others in the community.

🗓️ 27 Nov | 17:30
📍The Stamp Office, 10 Waterloo Pl, Edinburgh
🎟️ https://edin.ac/3JHBeVn
Traveltech Meet up: November - Edinburgh Futures Institute
Join us for the next Traveltech community meetup.
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November 13, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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ICYMI: Last week we published our Annual Report 2024/25. The report features highlights of our activities from the past year across four areas: Innovation, Research, Education, and Convening, showcasing a year of bold ideas, collaboration, and impact 👉 https://efi.ed.ac.uk/our-progress/
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Join us for our Postgraduate Virtual Open Days and find out more about our programmes in the areas of:

▶️ Sustainable Futures, 19 November, 12:30 - 13:45
▶️ Creative Futures, 20 November, 10:00 - 11:15
▶️ Just Futures, 20 November, 12:30 - 13:45

Register now 👉 www.edin.ac/pg-opendays
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Join The Binks Hub for their weekly Creative Research Methods Reading Group 📙, held every Thursday throughout November.

Open to all, the group focuses on creative and artistically engaged methods for research.

📅 13, 20, 27 November
⏲️ 09:15 - 10:15am
📍 Online
ℹ️ https://edin.ac/43jdqh5
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Join us for the launch of Venture Café Edinburgh on 20 Nov, 5pm - 6pm, at Edinburgh Futures Institute! The initiative brings together entrepreneurs, investors, academics & policymakers to accelerate collaboration & fuel Scotland’s next generation of breakthrough ventures 👉 https://edin.ac/47JpYzC
Igniting Innovation: Venture Café Edinburgh Launches at Edinburgh Futures Institute  - Edinburgh Futures Institute
Venture Café Edinburgh launches at Edinburgh Futures Institute on 20 November to ignite Scotland’s new wave of innovation.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Starting shortly at 6pm GMT! Watch the live stream here - edin.ac/3VSUXUt
Technomoral Conversations: How Will AI Change Science? — Centre for Technomoral Futures
During this Technomoral Conversation, we will hear from Dr Emily Sullivan, Dr Eran Tal, Dr Arfon Smith, and Professor Anna Scaife on the impact of data driven machine learning and AI on science and kn...
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November 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Wondering what to expect from our PG Virtual Open Days? Join us on 19 - 21 November:

✔️Live presentations + Q&A sessions with our Programme Directors
✔️Conversations with current students
✔️Insights into interdisciplinary learning at Edinburgh Futures Institute

Register 👉 www.edin.ac/pg-opendays
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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✨ What if repair could be poetic not just practical?

Join us for a full-day workshop in collaboration with Utopia Lab @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

Wed 4 Dec | 10am–4pm

Book: edin.ac/3L2k7Ot

Bring a broken object and explore how poetry, sculpture & storytelling can help us mend what matters.
The Poetry of Art and Impractical Repairs What can we do when the breakage of a precious object requires and emotional more than a physical repair? Join Jennifer Williams, Josephine Balfour-Oatts and Jimmy Turner for a day-long Utopia Lab exploring the potential of the use of poetry, creative writing and sculpture to effect reapirs of broken and damaged objects, attending to feelings and sentiment as much as to practical fixes. Thursday 4th December, 10am-4pm, Edinburgh Futures Institute
November 3, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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⚖️Reframing Criminal Justice

Dec 3rd | @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

Join us for a half-day seminar on creative, community-led justice reform and explore lived experience shaping policy, research and practice. Open to researchers, practitioners & the community-all welcome!

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Reframing Criminal Justice Professional Development Seminar A half-day event on criminal justice, hosted at EFI by The Binks Hub and REALITIES. Join us for an inspiring seminar on reframing criminal justice. The Binks Hub and REALITIES are excited to welcome attendees to a half-day event exploring and championing change within the Scottish criminal justice system. Linking to our Easter Ross and North Lanarkshire Hubs, as well as to our Release Reimagined workstream, REALITIES has explored, worked with, and championed change within the Scottish criminal justice system. REALITIES (Researching Evidence-based Alternatives in Living, Imaginative, Traumatised, Integrated, Embodied Systems) in Health Disparities is a transdisciplinary UKRI funded project which explores how we might re-imagine the health and social care systems so that they might better respond to the needs of the communities who use them. Whether it is through the creation of theatre pieces, the advocating for accreditation workshops, or the creation of safe spaces to create art and build community, the findings from the project have far-reaching and exciting outputs that will be shared in the seminar. In particular, we will invite attendees to discuss and brainstorm about what this may suggest about the future of criminal justice policy, research and/or practice. Open to researchers, practitioners, and community members, everyone is welcome to connect and learn.
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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We’re thrilled to share Edinburgh Futures Institute’s 2024/25 Annual Report. The report features highlights of our activities from the past year across four areas: Innovation, Research, Education, and Convening — showcasing a year of bold ideas, collaboration, and impact 👉 https://edin.ac/47muwNB
November 3, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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‼️ Applications for this 2-day training event close tomorrow, 31 October! Open to young people aged between 18-35 years old. Apply now ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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The British Council & Edinburgh Futures Institute invite young people (18- 35) to join a 2-day training programme exploring media literacy & generating solutions to disinformation

⭐ Media Literacy in the age of AI
🗓️ 11-12 Nov 2025 , 9:30am-5:30pm📍 EFI
❗Apply by 31 Oct https://edin.ac/4ofpCHO
October 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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📣 The latest episode of our Futures Conversations podcast is out now!

🎧 Episode 6 – Kate Wright: Mass Media in the Digital Age

Professor Kate Wright investigates how journalism is responding to the challenges of the new digital landscape 👉 https://efi.ed.ac.uk/futures-conversations-podcast/
October 30, 2025 at 11:30 AM