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Politics and International Relations (PIR)

Good Evidence? Findings from a Parliamentary Academic Fellowship

In this project, Marc Geddes examines the role and use of evidence by MPs and officials in supporting select committees, based on a 12-month fellowship with the UK Parliament between August 2021 and July 2022. This project examined how evidence is gathered and used; implications for understanding ‘good’ evidence; and challenges for evidence use.

Sociology

Heat and the city

A multi-disciplinary research project addressing a major need in European energy and climate policy: how do we reduce the energy used for heating and hot water in buildings and create a low carbon heat supply?

Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

Historicising Dolly

An Edinburgh-centred case study of the Emergence of Animal Biotechnology

Sociology

Impact Evaluation of Scottish Book Trust’s Bookbug Programme

Sociology: The two-year evaluation examines how, and to what extent, Bookbug impacts on the lives of families in Scotland, and on the knowledge, attitudes and practices of early-years professionals.

Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

Implantable Microsystems for Personalised Anti-Cancer Therapy

IMPACT is a five-year research project to develop new approaches to cancer treatment using implanted smart sensors on silicon, fabricated in the University of Edinburgh's Scottish Microelectronics Centre.

India in Edinburgh - 1750s to the Present

India in Edinburgh is a long-term project to document and to make available in publications and digitally a range of resources that show how India has affected Edinburgh in the past 250 years.

Centre of African Studies

Innovation and Inclusive Industrialisation in Agro-processing

Agro-processing industries are expected to be transformed over the coming decades by a major shift in domestic food demand created by urbanisation rising incomes and changing consumer habits.

Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

Integrating Technical and Social Aspects of Fire safety Engineering Expertise

This research is geared towards improving fire safety and the quality of the built environment by better interaction and integration of social scientific and engineering research.

Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

Integration of Power Transmission Grids

The primary objective of this project is to generate new knowledge about the institutional, technological, and economical, challenges related to the transformation of transmission power grids across Europe.

Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

Investigating the Implementation, Adoption and Effectiveness of ePrescribing Systems in English Hospitals

The project will explore how software design and implementation strategies affect the outcomes of e-prescribing.

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Science, Technology and Innovation Studies

Learning Energy Systems

This project will develop a collective 'Learning Energy System' involving people, objects, data and machines. Central to this is a digital system designed to align human needs and comfort with building energy systems, with the aim of reducing overall energy demand.

Centre of African Studies

Local Perceptions and Media Representations of Election Observation in Africa

During several recent elections in Africa, questions have been raised about the competency and partiality of observation missions, and about the future of observation both on the continent and elsewhere. In this context, this project improves understandings, for both academics and practitioners, of election observation.