Public Services

A new report, Shaping Young People’s Financial Futures Together, from the Compassion in Financial Services Hub at the University of Edinburgh’s Futures Institute, in collaboration with Young Scot, is calling on banks, policymakers and financial providers to overhaul how they design products, services and education for young people.

A new report calls for an overhaul of pensions policy and financial advice to address the current pensions gap, which sees women end up with a staggering 75 per cent less in pension wealth by age 60 than men.

The University of Edinburgh will partner with three institutions to deliver Scotland’s only Policing Academic Centre of Excellence (P-ACE).

Regulation is often seen as burden for the private sector, but, as we’ve seen since the financial crash, if done right, it can lead to business improvements that benefit us all, writes Douglas Graham (pictured below), Edinburgh Innovations’ Director of Business Engagement, based at the Edinburgh Futures Institute.

UK-based researchers are invited to apply to undertake collaborative projects across the AI ecosystem in a new fellowship programme that is designed to drive responsible innovation in artificial intelligence with input from arts and humanities research.

A collaboration between three major public bodies will see the launch of an innovative new hub to improve health and social inequalities throughout Scotland.

Almost 200 colleagues from academia and investment gathered at the University of Edinburgh today to celebrate and understand significant new research projects announced by the Centre for Investing Innovation, a strategic partnership between the University and abrdn, the Global Asset Manager.

NatWest Group and the University of Edinburgh have today announced a new partnership based on challenge-led research and innovation that will improve how data is used to benefit bank customers, students, researchers and policy makers.