Edinburgh Futures Conversations

Reading time: 3 minutes This autumn, high-profile academics, activists and creatives are gathering to tackle questions about the future of education through conversations, readings, participatory workshops and commissioned performances. Covering the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), importance of creative arts, and issues of learning and unlearning in relation to race, gender, and disability, the …

Sport and Active Health, your regular roundup of sports news from the University

Reading time: 9 minutes It’s another jam-packed edition of Sport & Active Health. It’s been a busy period shaping up for the first semester.  Annual report The University of Edinburgh is proud to be the number one University for Sport & Active Wellbeing in Scotland and one of the highest performing institutions in the …

New AI Adoption hub launches for staff

Reading time: 2 minutes The AI Adoption Task Force, working with Communications and Marketing, has created the hub as part of wider University work to navigate the opportunities and challenges emerging from rapid advances in AI. It aims to bring colleagues across the University together to explore this new technology and what it means …

Accolades in CAHSS

Reading time: 2 minutes Professor Stephen Tierney   Congratulations to Professor Stephen Tierney, who has been appointed Honorary King’s Counsel by His Majesty The King on the nomination of the Lord Justice General and the recommendation of First Minister John Swinney. This is the first time that this honour has been conferred in Scotland.   There …

Edinburgh Futures Institute officially opens to the public

Reading time: 2 minutes Staff were invited on tours to see the new building and the public was able to have a look as part of the Meadows Festival. The landmark building officially opened to the public on Monday 3 June following an extensive seven-year, multimillion-pound restoration. Built in 1879, the Old Royal Infirmary …