Postgraduate Futures Programmes

Learn, create and make change happen

Our interdisciplinary postgraduate programmes are for those who embrace new ways of thinking and want an education that helps shape a better future, for themselves and for our world.

Study on-campus, online or move between both. Study full-time, part-time or life-long. Bring your academic, professional and life experience as you work across disciplines, dig deep into some of the world’s most complex challenges and develop vital career skills.

Postgraduate study at Edinburgh Futures Institute is an opportunity to develop new ways of thinking, to create new ideas and to help build new futures. Join us.

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Creative Industries

Work directly with the world-class creative and cultural industries in Edinburgh, as you bring together cross-disciplinary expertise in data analytics, creative thinking, business and law to understand and address the complex challenges faced by this vital sector.

Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics

Gain the interdisciplinary skills and knowledge of ethical design, use and governance of artificial intelligence and other data-intensive technologies in order to navigate complex systems and roles with transparency, fairness, and respect for individual and human rights, and social needs.

Planetary Health

Understand and design solutions for global crises at the intersection of the future health and wellbeing of people and our planet. With a strong focus on engaging governments, finance and industry, and in designing policies with action-oriented and context-sensitive solutions.

Service Management and Design

Bring the fields of service management and service design together to develop your understanding of a sector vital to the future of our economies and societies. Develop the critical, creative and data skills essential to career success within private and public service sectors including finance, retail, health, social care and more.

Sustainable Lands and Cities

Develop the skills needed to influence and create resilient and sustainable relationships between lands and cities. Exploring rural and urban environments, harnessing practices of smart growth, understanding planetary boundaries, and opportunities for justice and equity.

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Circular Economy

Creative Industries

Data and Artificial Intelligence Ethics

Data, Inequality and Society

Education Futures

Future Governance

Narrative Futures: Art, Data, Society

Planetary Health

Service Management and Design

Sustainable Lands and Cities

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