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Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
19/10/2021
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

New approach to feed production can transform climate impact of industries including fish farming

Two projects at the University of Edinburgh’s Innogen Institute are showing how a circular economy approach to feed production, using new bio-materials, can help industries including fish farming achieve climate change goals.
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
13/10/2021
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

Investigating the automation of social security in the UK

University of Edinburgh researchers are to study automated systems in the UK's Universal Credit scheme, to investigate how they affect different users and if they contribute to social inequalities.
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
27/09/2021
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

SPS academic wins award to promote history of mathematics in schools

SPS’ Dr Michael Barany has received a national award for his work in popularising the history of mathematics in education.
Person on laptop in coffee shop
17/09/2021
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

Police and government use online ‘influence’ tactics to tackle crime and shape behaviour in the UK

New research has found that advertising and influencing techniques often used by marketers and advertisers to encourage audiences to buy products are being used by law enforcement and government agencies in the UK for crime prevention.
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
15/06/2021
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

New toolkit to transform collaborative research approaches across disciplines

Edinburgh researchers and partners have created a new toolkit to support collaboration between arts, humanities, and social science disciplines and STEM areas to solve society’s most complex challenges.
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
17/05/2021
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

SPS energy expert highlights Scottish research ahead of COP 26

Dr Kirsten Jenkins, whose work focuses on how energy transitions affect society and create issues of injustice, has joined Scotland’s leading climate researchers in a series of expert interviews by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE).
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
24/04/2021
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

Innogen Institute researchers write about Covid-19

The Innogen Institute - a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh and the Open University, has shared various Covid-19 related publications.
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
07/04/2021
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

Investigating the societal challenges of building facial recognition datasets

A student at the School of Social and Political Science has received funding from Edinburgh Futures Institute to investigate the cultural and societal challenges involved in the curation of facial recognition datasets.
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies
26/05/2020
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

Recovering Edinburgh’s cultural spaces during a global pandemic

University of Edinburgh researchers are leading a project to tackle the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the city’s culture sector, creating new cultural events throughout and beyond the lockdown.