Join this free, interactive exhibition, suitable for all ages, part of Edinburgh Science Festival 2026! ⭐ AI for All: Designing Responsibly 2026 🗓️ Fri 10 Apr 2026, 10am - 4pm | Drop-in 📍Canopy, Edinburgh Futures Institute 🔗 https://edin.ac/4meQTua

Over 100 pupils from seven local secondary schools put their questions forward to political representatives at a hustings on Monday. The event was organised by James Gillespie’s High School in partnership with EFI and Moray House School of Education and Sport. Read more 👉 https://edin.ac/4dYFnkk

If you haven’t had the chance yet, we invite you to read our Annual Report 2024/25. It brings together a year of work across innovation, research, education & convening, and reflects how we connect disciplines and partners to address complex challenges. Download 👉 https://efi.ed.ac.uk/our-progress/

In his inaugural lecture, held at Edinburgh Futures Institute, Professor Simon Cox explores what research into brain and cognitive ageing has revealed — and what it has not. 📅 Wed 1 April 🕓 17:15pm 📍 Room 0.01, Edinburgh Futures Institute 🎟️ Free @schoolofppls.bsky.social

Join this upcoming talk with Dr Suzanne Black presented by Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society! Preserving Digital Cultural Heritage: Archive of Our Own and Issues of Structural Bias. 📅 25 March 2026 🕓 16:00–18:00 📍 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute 👉Register https://ow.ly/2ULI50YsOn6

The Binks Hub invites you to a Day of Co-Creation, a series of three events, to celebrate creative & participatory research practices. Join for one event or for the whole day! 🗓️ 2 April 2026 | 11am-6pm 📍Main Library, University of Edinburgh Register 👉 https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/day-of-co-creation/

Join us for this book talk on Public Data Cultures by Jonathan Gray. The book nurtures criticalengagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation, and as site of transnational politics. 🗓️ Fri, 27 March, 3pm -5pm 📍Room 1.55, EFI 🎟️ https://edin.ac/46V2BUn

The Creativity, AI, and the Human Research Cluster is one of the research clusters we support at the Institute. Since its launch in May 2024, the cluster has seen a formative period of experimentation, collaboration and community building. Read more 👉 https://edin.ac/40uorua

If you’re curious about studying with us, join our online Discovery Day sessions on Thurs, 19 March 2026! 🕛 1:00 PM – 2:15 PM GMT ⭐ An introduction to our Sustainable Futures MSc programmes 🕛 3:00 PM – 4:15 PM GMT ⭐ An overview of our master’s programmes Register here 👉 https://edin.ac/4ujyOid

What could a prevention-focused future look like? In this thought piece, Dr Kristy Docherty shares insights drawn from the Futures Triangle exercise held at the Prevention#25 conference, an event convened by the Scottish Prevention Hub in September last year. Full piece 👉 https://edin.ac/3PqFj2v

The Centre for Research in Digital Education invites you to attend the Stewart Alan Robertson Lecture "AI Education for Meaningful Life, Life Together, and Life on the Planet." 🗓️ 12th March 2026, 12:30-13:30 GMT 📍 Edinburgh Futures Institute and online 🎟️ Register: https://edin.ac/4rVUC1Q

The Binks Hub invites you to join this seminar on epistemic injustice and mental health which will centre the lived expertise of mental health system survivors. Epistemic Injustice and Mental Health System Survivor Knowledge 🗓️ Fri, 27 March, 10am -11am 📍 2.55, EFI Register 👉 https://edin.ac/4aN2FYy

Join our contemplative Utopia Lab session this Friday. Our Utopia Lab Residents explore how we live with loss, grief, and mortality — and how we might imagine new collective ways of relating to death. 🗓️ Friday, 6 March, 2pm - 4pm 📍 EFI 🎟️ https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/utopia-lab-keeping-death-close/

One to have on your radar 🚀 The AI Accelerator Showcase 2026 connects founders, investors and partners shaping the next wave of AI scaleups. 📅 18 March 2026 | ⏰ 1–7pm | 📍 Playfair Library Hall, Edinburgh #AIAccelerator #Innovation 👉 Register https://edin.ac/40vmFc3

Are you a visionary leader aiming to integrate the responsible use of AI within your organisation?Learn about our ‘AI and Generative AI for Leaders’ programme in this fantastic interview with Sam Weston, Head of AI & Marketing at digital agency 80 DAYS. Read more 👉 https://edin.ac/4sj7uP7

Are you a visionary leader aiming to integrate the responsible use of AI within your organisation?Learn about our ‘AI and Generative AI for Leaders’ programme in this fantastic interview with Sam Weston, Head of AI & Marketing at digital agency 80 DAYS. Read more 👉 https://edin.ac/4sj7uP7

✈️ Traveltech Meet Up 🗓️ Tuesday, 24 March 2026 | 13:00pm - 15:00 | 📍 Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute 🔗 Register https://edin.ac/4tWSisx Curious about agentic AI? This relaxed, practical session explains what it is, how it differs from familiar AI tools, & how it can support day-to-day work.

Join our nine-week online designed to empower senior leaders and decision makers to harness the transformational power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative AI and drive innovation within their organisations. 🗓️ 20 April 2026 – 19 June 2026 Register 👉 https://edin.ac/44efQgx

⭐ Student Spotlight ⭐ Edinburgh Futures Institute student MSc Narrative Futures student, Beth Tianxin Xia, is one of three commissioned artists included in “Drawing the Line: An RAI Exhibition” on display at City Arts – Nottingham from Jan-February 2026. Read more https://edin.ac/4tZQYFC

The Data Education in Schools team at the Centre for Research in Digital Education have joined the Centre for Teaching Excellence as the newly established Digital Education and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Advancing Pedagogy Research Hub. Read more 👉 https://edin.ac/4cehchc

Interested in PG study with us? Join our upcoming Postgraduate Online Information sessions on 19th March! ▪️ An Introduction to our Sustainable Futures MSc Programmes 🕛13:00 – 14:15 PM GMT ▪️ An Overview of Master's Programmes at EFI 🕛 15:00 – 16:15 PM GMT Book 👉 https://efi.ed.ac.uk/events/

Two new exhibitions are on display at Edinburgh Futures Institute from Feb to March 2026, showcasing cutting-edge digital art and immersive storytelling. Both exhibitions explore how digital tech can reshape the ways we encounter history, culture and the natural world 👉 https://edin.ac/4kPLiti

Join us for the next Technomoral Conversation, in collaboration with the Centre for Technomoral Futures & BRAID UK. Hear critical insights from experts across academia & industry on the dominant narratives regarding AI, and what alternative stories can be told. 🗓️ 11 Feb | 6pm 📍 EFI & Online 💳 Free

The BRAID research programme has developed the Responsible AI for SMEs programme, designed specifically for small and medium-sized businesses. Full story 👉 https://edin.ac/3Zv8Mdt Image: Alan Warburton / https://betterimagesofai.org / © BBC/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Our Compassion in Financial Services Hub and the University of Edinburgh Business School are working with the Centre for Compassionate Leadership to deliver the 🌟 Compassionate Leadership Certification Training 🌟 from 19 February – 6 March 2026. Learn more/register 👉 https://edin.ac/4bS4Smm

ICYMI: CodeClan is set to debut the UK’s first applied agentic AI programme to equip firms for the next wave of AI, delivered by CodeBase in partnership with University of Edinburgh Business School and Qwasar. In-person workshops will take place at EFI. Full story 👉 https://edin.ac/4aaAjqN

A new report calls for an overhaul of pensions policy and financial advice to address the current pensions gap, which sees women end up with a staggering 75 per cent less in pension wealth by age 60 than men. Read more 👉 https://edin.ac/4adsuRc

We are delighted to be included in the University of Edinburgh's 2024/25 Power of Innovation report. Discover how our partnerships, technologies and companies are making ideas work for a better world 👉 https://edinburgh-innovations.ed.ac.uk/about-us/power-of-innovation Edinburgh Innovations

Thinking about postgraduate study at EFI? Join our two upcoming online Postgraduate Study sessions! 🔴 Alumni panel Q&A 🗓️ 29th Jan 1PM – 2PM GMT 🔴 Projects and Partners Information Q&A 🗓️ 12th Febr 1PM – 2PM GMT Register ➡️ https://efi.ed.ac.uk/events/

‼️ Winter Coat Exchange: drop-off points open until 31 Jan! Help provide warm clothing to those facing financial difficulty. Location + last day for drop-offs in the comments 🔽

A new report calls for an overhaul of pensions policy and financial advice to address the current pensions gap, which sees men accumulating a whopping 75 per cent more in their pension pots by age 60 than women.➡️ eil.ac/WomensWealth... @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @emilyshipp.bsky.social

We are honoured to host a new exhibition showcasing a commemorative tartan design recognising 300 years of medicine at the University of Edinburgh, launched last week at Edinburgh Futures Institute. Running from 15 Jan to 6 Feb 2026, Anthea Bond Exhibition Room, Level 1 👉 https://edin.ac/45n4ZCq

Join us for the next installment of the FutureGaze series, which will focus on the future of animation and the technological advances happening in and around animation. Hosted by Caroline Parkinson, Director of Creative, EFI. 🗓️ 11 Feb | 12pm - 1pm GMT 📍 Online 💳 Free 🎟️ https://edin.ac/4pWbXpf

Thinking about postgraduate study at Edinburgh Futures Institute? Join us online for our Postgraduate study: Alumni panel and Q&A! Our alumni share what it’s like to study with us. 🗓 29 Jan 2026 ⏰ 1pm – 2pm GMT 📍 Online (Microsoft Teams) 🔗 https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/postgraduate-study-alumni-panel/

Happy Holidays from Edinburgh Futures Institute! Please note our building will be closed during the winter break from 2pm on Tuesday 23 December 2025 and will reopen at 9am on Monday 5 January 2026. We look forward to seeing you again in the new year!

🎓 Over one hundred students gathered beneath the dome of the University of Edinburgh’s McEwan Hall on the 26 November, marking the graduation of Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Class of 2025. Our graduates share insights about their student experience 👉 https://edin.ac/4af5AcE 📸 Andrew Perry

In this latest thought piece, Dr Kristy Docherty (Co-Director, Scottish Prevention Hub) and Katherine Trebeck (Co-Director, Compassion in Financial Services Hub) explain why collaboration is vital to the work of creating an economy that prevents harm 👉 https://edin.ac/3XZs8Xz

A conference on "Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI" was held on 20 Nov, organised by the Gender + Sexuality Data Lab & the AI Ethics & Society, with support from the Futures Institute. PhD candidate Adam Ferron shares insights from the conference 👉 https://edin.ac/4oVhDiU

❄️ Wintering Well: Building community in the darker months of the year ❄️ Our Student Adviser Anna Duncan describes a series of events piloted by students & staff at the Futures Institute & the School of GeoSciences, to support each other through the dark winter days ➡️ https://edin.ac/4iVVFLk

Fantastic @thebinkshub.bsky.social @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social creative research workshop today on impractical repairs - we wrote poems and made sculptures and thought about futures in which healing and repair are more possible

USSP’s Alison Heppenstall, Yahya Gamal, Tatsuya Mitomi & Daniel Konioukhov joined the AI4CI Hub event, AI and the City, at the @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social Yahya presented Hub work and Alison joined a panel exploring AI’s role in future cities. @ai4cihub.bsky.social @yahyagamal.bsky.social

Our Co-Director @aroeschmarsh.bsky.social has been working with @stafscot.bsky.social on some inspiring and impactful resources around supporting friendship - find out more below! #AcademicSky @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @uoe-sps.bsky.social #CreativeResearch

📣 Come and view the latest generative artwork on display at Edinburgh Futures Institute! "You Are Here" is a generative artwork based on the live positions of the stars from a precise viewpoint on earth. Read more 👉 https://edin.ac/4pP3yo2 📸 Images: Chris Scott

Got a spare coat? Donate it and help someone keep warm this winter ❄️ The University of Edinburgh has partnered with The Leith Collective/We Relove for ‘The Winter Coat Exchange" initiative to help provide warm clothing to those facing financial difficulty. More info 👉 https://edin.ac/48vKyUK

Don't miss next week's event exploring how compassion and empathy can help shape a more connected and humane future, held at Edinburgh Futures Institute. 🌍 Compassion in the Age of Fracture 🗓️ 2 Dec 🕒 10am -12.30pm 📍 EFI 🎟️ https://edin.ac/4nK2Oix

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

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!

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! ✨

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. @shannonvallor.bsky.social

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