We all know we should be saving for our future, but it’s hard to visualise ourselves in 20 or 30 years, especially when our costs today are so high.Financial services company Aegon has been interested in the human be...

When health researchers look at patient data, it is anonymous and only provides the information provided on forms and from ticking boxes – not the notes taken during appointments. To help make this valuable data available,...

Work experience for students can take many forms, and Edinburgh Futures Institute is pushing the boundaries by running a project to embed it into final year study.The Student Challenge projects pair students with bus...

Quantum computing is a complex area that’s developing rapidly. In order for industry needs and academic research to keep pace with one another, strategic partnerships have to form where each learns to speak the other’s language.

Skills in computer programming are required more and more on degree courses, but often the course lecturers are not trained specifically to deliver.That’s why the winter school was designed.In recognition of the f...

The use of artificial intelligence, or AI, is the subject of much discussion. As we rely more and more on automating tasks and making data-driven decisions, AI becomes a big part of the solution. But it only works when its models are trained...

Project Lead Gemma Cassells and Lead author Matjaz Vidmar discuss the Lothians report and the potential for data driven innovation in East, West and Mid-Lothian.

DDI Ambassador Briana Pegado speaks to journalist Kim McAllister to explain why the arts and creative industries need to embrace data.

Featuring Sanjay Rakshit and Nick Baker Massive online open courses (MOOCS) are for people wanting to learn about how data can impact their career prospects. Two people who have completed such courses tell us how they changed their...

Featuring Gary Watmough, Alan Duncan and Guyo Roba The Jameel Observatory combines the local knowledge and concerns of communities facing the threat of hunger with innovations in data science and humanitarian action. The food insec...

Featuring Chris Speed The Edinburgh Futures Institute is due to start its phased  opening in 2023 after an extensive renovation of the old Edinburgh Infirmary. Chris Speed, the hub’s director, talks about the plans  for t...

A design-thinking, social change programme at the University of Edinburgh brings together all disciplines and degree levels  with organisations facing huge economic, social and environmental programmes which they would like the students to...

When the coronavirus pandemic hit in early 2020, there was an urgent need for health data. The International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC)  gathered data from hundreds of thousands of patients across&n...

Edinburgh has long been a centre of excellence for informatics,  but how did this inspire the £660m data driven innovation initiative, the largest grant ever awarded to a UK university?  One of its architects tells us the story.

Featuring Richard Kuo and Nicola Broughton Wobble Genomics was founded by a Californian who was attracted to the environment at the university which cloned Dolly the Sheep. It specialises in maximising the RNA and DNA sequencing ef...

Featuring Laura Bernal, Katy Guthrie and Danny Helson The University of Edinburgh has three programmes which  support entrepreneurship at various levels. Here the programme leads explains the role each plays and how they work ...