EFI Education mixer
EFI vision Data for social good Interdisciplinarity Challenge-focused Partnership, collaboration and trust Encounter, co-production, risk-taking
EFI as a: Collective a product of joint investment from the University and the City Region Deal Catalyser accelerates our capacity to respond to societal challenges Crucible a physical space for experimentation in research, education and engagement
Evolving EFI Studio Director Creative Chris Speed (Creativetech ) Director Data Ethics and Integrity Director Industry, Economy and Society Sector Lead Gbenga Ibikunle Creative (Fintech) Caroline Parkinson Engagement Directorate Chancellor’s International Partnerships – James Smith Fellows Director Education Sector Lead Cultural Engagement – Patricia Erskine Bea Alex Sian Bayne Tourism and Banking, Finance and Society – Owen Kelly Drew Hemment Director Regulation, Head of Institute Cross-Cutting Themes Festivals Community and outreach – Lesley McAra Taylor Spears Data and Society Lesley McAra Data Ethics Joshua Ryan-Saha Business Development – Douglas Graham Liz McFall Liz McFall Critical infrastructure Ben Williamson (Govtech) Deputy Head Entrepreneurship Sector Lead Owen Kelly Director Research Social Benefit Fintech Melissa Terras To be appointed Futures Damien McGariggle Project Management Team Director Peace, Justice 5+ CFS John Hausrath and Transitions 36 PhDs Sector Lead Maria Ullibarri Christine Bell Govtech Laurie Cameron Garcia (Peacetech) Gemma Cassells Director Entrepreneurship Director Planetary Health and Well-Being Liz Grant (Earthtech)
Education leads Sian Bayne – Director Education Sabine Rolle – Undergraduate Lead Chris Speed – Creative Lead Douglas Graham – Executive Education Lead Academic services lead – to be appointed Education project manager – to be appointed
interdisciplinary flexible lifelong passion-driven, challenge-led data fluent online/offline affordable and inclusive co-designed and produced
EFI Education: ballpark targets over 15 years 2,000 additional UG students 6,000 additional PGT students 200 PGR students 5,000 learners taking CPD 2,000 learners taking executive education 0.5m open learners
5+ new MSc programmes launching between 2019 and 2021 8 highly interdisciplinary ‘pathway’ PG programmes launching in 2021 and 2022 3 new interdisciplinary UG programmes Executive education: bespoke courses, responsive programmes and strategic partnerships
1. PGT programmes MSc Finance, Technology and Policy (GB Ibikunle, Business School) MSc Leading Major Programmes (Gordon Masterton, Engineering) MSc Creative Industries (Candace Jones, Business School) MSc Resilience (Maurizio Tomasella, Business School) MSc Design Innovation (Sarah Kettley, ECA) plus….
2. PGT project-led ‘pathway’ programmes in the future of: democracy society education creativity economy justice health sustainability
Induction 20-credit core (data skills, creativity, criticality) tivals Bread eadth esti 30 credits taken from across whole EFI portfolio fes 10 credit synthesis essay applied to project 10 10 10 10 10 10 tures, f Interdisciplinary peer-groups for support ect Year 1 (PT) projec 10 10 ectu 60 60 credit it mile lestone Semester 1 (FT) lec ent p Focus Fo eminars, l 40 credits taken from across whole EFI portfolio Studen 20 credit synthesis essay applied to project 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Increasingly project-focused Fes estival of l of projects sem Year 2 (PT) 20 20 120 credit 120 it m mile lestone Semester 2 (FT) ts, s I events 60 credit project output (dissertation, report, artefact) 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 Or 40 credits from EFI portfolio EFI e plus 20 credit final piece of work EF Year 3 (PT) 20 20 60 60 180 credit 180 it m mile lestone Semester 3 (FT) synthesis of learning applied to project 10 credit course in hybrid (online/on-campus) mode (optional) ‘open’ credits from MOOCs or other
How w would t this work? A spec eculati tive p path thway s scen enario Cristina Mid-level civil servant working in Service Improvement at National Records of Scotland Wants to progress through building knowledge of service design and data-informed decision making Enters EFI part-time in the ‘Creativity’ pathway Planning to complete a project to develop service design approaches to public archive management
Inducti tion data skills, c da creativ ivity, c crit iticality Breadth th ‘Creativ ivity’ pa ’ pathway Understanding Human-Centred Service Design ‘Sus ustainabil bilit ity’ pa pathway Thinking Beyond the Human ‘Lead ading maj ajor p r program ammes’ s’ Leading Strategic Change Focus Fo ‘Democr cracy cy’: Data Citizenship ‘Creativ ivity’: ’: User-Centred Methodologies Designing with Data Pro roject MOOC: C: Open Archiving Design the Future of Services with Other Humans focusing on service re-design for digital citizenship
tivals 10 10 esti 10 10 fes 10 10 tures, f 10 10 10 10 ectu lec eminars, l 10 10 x years 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 sem ts, s 10 10 I events 10 10 10 10 EFI e 10 10 EF 10 10 10 10 10 10
Call for EFI secondees Nine secondments for pathways in the future of: economy democracy society education creativity justice health sustainability Plus one to develop core postgraduate provision in data skills
Open to colleagues across all three Colleges 2 days per week May 2019-August 2022 Grade 8 or above (backfill at Grade 9) Committed teachers and active researchers Open to working across the university to curate new ways of advancing your field of knowledge through interdisciplinary PGT Wishing to shape the intellectual agenda of EFI
“What sorts of educational questions and possibilities might be raised by placing the problem of the future at the centre of our search for educational alternatives?” Keri Facer, Using the Future in Education: Creating Space for Openness, Hope and Novelty in The Palgrave International Handbook of Alternative Education
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