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The University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, Police Scotland, and Public Health Scotland will come together to implement a pioneering Scottish Prevention Hub that will aim to improve national public health.

Centre for Technomoral Futures Director, Professor Shannon Vallor, is appointed as one of three new Oversight members of the Ada Lovelace Institute

The University of Edinburgh and Creative Informatics have been named as core partners on two preferred bids for the UK Government’s Convergent Screen Technologies and performance in Realtime (CoSTAR) programme.

The Bayes Centre, the University of Edinburgh’s Innovation Hub for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence is delighted to announce that Professor Ruth King, an international leader in the field of statistics, will take up the …

The Edinburgh Futures Institute is delighted to be a Major Sponsor of the Edinburgh International Book Festival in 2023.

The Edinburgh Futures Institute hosted the second CreativeTech Scotland Gathering on 26 May – an opportunity to meet, share and showcase the data-driven innovation and creative technology in Scotland.

The Edinburgh Futures Institute is celebrating the announcement of a new collaborative partnership across the University’s Data Driven Innovation platform. 

The Mathematics for Humanity project, an initiative by the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS), is set to move into the new Edinburgh Futures Institute building at Lauriston Place when it opens later this year. 

This 100-year plan workshop was co-developed, iterated and convened by the Data + Design Lab, with organisational help from the Centre for Data, Culture and Society, both based at Edinburgh Futures Institute.

The Data for Children Collaborative supports a collaborative project investigating how Covid-19 has impacted children and young people’s involvement in sport and exercise.

The Futures Institute thanks everyone who made the “Love Machine” season a success – our partners, speakers, performers, and attendees from all over the world.

The New Real Founder Professor Drew Hemment shared his expert views on the origins and the future of Artificial Intelligence in two features published in The Scotsman and The Herald. Established in 2019, The New Real …

In this thought piece, Gregor McElvogue from the School of Informatics reflects on the Edinburgh Future Conversation’s theme: Shaping our AI futures.

University of Edinburgh students are invited to submit entries to the Edinburgh Futures Conversations' Student Photography Competition on 'The Future of AI'.

Edinburgh Futures Institute's newest postgraduate programme – MSc in Planetary Health – offers students access to expertise from across the University of Edinburgh and will equip graduates to address global issues.