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Migrants Resource Fair

Edinburgh Napier Business School and the FAR Hub are collaborating with DataKirk to host the first annual Migrants Resource Fair. The Migrants Resource Fair is aimed at providing crucial support and resources for temporary migrants in Scotland. Settlement and Integration services, addressing the financial, social, and cultural challenges that migrants may face when starting their …

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Scottish Black Talent Summit

Thanks to the wonderful support from The DataKirk, Edinburgh Napier Business School was able to send our biggest student delegation to date, to another fantastic event. The 2nd Scottish Black Talent Summit & Hiring Fair 2023. Our students come from a wide variety of backgrounds with global representation. They were able to meet and talk with …

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Select Publications

Scenario Planning Crawford, M. M. & Wright, G. (Eds, 2024). Scenario Planning and Futures Thinking. Edward Elgar Publishing. Crawford, M. M. & Plant-O-toole, P. (2023). A review of strategic planning for dynamic supply chains: Preparing for uncertainty using scenarios, Futures and Foresight Science. 5:e167. DOI: 10.1002/ffo2.167 Crawford, M. M. & Wright, G. (2022). The value …

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Scottish AI Summit

AI is quickly advancing across the world, and even faster across Scotland. This year, we had the privilege of sending a delegation of Napier Business School students to the second annual Scottish AI Summit, held in Glasgow. At the FAR Hub, our aim is to provide world-class, international experiences for our students and staff that …

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Year: 2035 Category: Health, Well-Being and Demography In 2035, a generation from today, Alejandra leaves her house in Glasgow for a day out. Due to increases in social funding, she is able to spend more time in, and engaging with, her community, advancing her own education in whatever way she pleases. Universal basic income (UBI) …

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Year: 2035 Category: Health, Well-Being and Demography In 2035, a generation from today, Alejandra leaves her house in Glasgow for a day out. Due to increases in social funding, she is able to spend more time in, and engaging with, her community, advancing her own education in whatever way she pleases. Universal basic income (UBI) …

Energy Kilometres

Year: 2035Category: Sustainable Food, Land, Water By 2035, all the pandemic babies will be teenagers. Residents will be driving electric cars everywhere. Not dirty energy supplied electric cars, but rather a variety of clean energy supplies, like high-pressured saline steam-supplied energy. Electric vehicles are really the only ones available anymore. Fueling our machines are waste …

Immersive Commuter

Year: 2035 Category: Energy Decarbonisation and Sustainable Industry Marg lives in Edinburgh. Before 2035 there was a successful independence vote. The least predictable situation, politically. There’s really no SNP anymore. With the disruption of leading and succeeding in passing independence, previously established political parties are no longer the coherent parties they were before. Scotland has …