Our people
Meet the individuals making a difference.
Stepping up
When hundreds of Ukrainian children arrived in Edinburgh’s schools Katia Popova and her students organised tutoring, translation and tunes.
Rebuilding a war-torn country: Meeting the future of Ukraine
A pioneering Twinning Initiative has boosted bonds between Edinburgh and Ukraine, strengthening the cross-border exchange of people and ideas.
Accountability needs you
For history graduate Blair Glencorse, a brief conversation in Nepal was the catalyst for an idea that has become a 25-million-strong global movement of people making the world fairer and more accountable for us all.
Introducing the University’s first Gaelic writer in residence
Author, poet and storyteller Martin MacIntyre will take up the new role for the next two years.
Meet the alumni making waves in the climate crisis
Edinburgh is celebrating some of its former students at the forefront of the global climate response.
Supercomputing’s super potential
Having been at the leading edge of supercomputing, and its extraordinary growth over the past 30 years, Professor Mark Parsons believes we’re just at the cusp of exploiting its mind-blowing potential.
The connection creator
From the helm of the University's Edinburgh Futures Institute, Professor Chris Speed is drawing on his creative credentials and passion for connection to unite the brightest and best in designing data-driven solutions to the biggest, most complex and interconnected challenges facing the world today.
Towards a technomoral future
Are ethics and technology distinctly disconnected or inextricably linked? With Professor Shannon Vallor at the helm of the University’s new Centre for Technomoral Futures, these two traditionally separate areas of research are uniting to ensure a society increasingly driven by artificial intelligence and data can flourish.