Collaborate with colleagues from the Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts for People and the Economy/Environment (SHAPE) to make innovation work harder for the benefit of everyone.

Select from our Missions and Dimensions to filter the collaborator listing.

Research Missions

  • All
  • Climate and sustainability
  • Data, digital and AI
  • Future health and care

SHAPE Dimensions

  • All
  • Business, innovation and economy
  • Equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Ethics and regulation
  • Historical and longitudinal perspectives
  • Place, context and culture
  • Public attitudes and controversies
  • Security, risk and harm
  • User and stakeholder perspectives

Shape Partners

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Are you interested in collaboration?

At the University of Edinburgh, we enjoy a strong ethos of research without boundaries. Across our five campuses, researchers share a strong sense of identity and common purpose.

Many STEM researchers tell us they wish to collaborate across disciplines and perspectives but lack the confidence to scope relevant SHAPE inputs, understand which approaches might work best or identify the right collaborators for a new piece of research.

Too often, social sciences, humanities and the arts are an afterthought. Sociologists, lawyers, designers or ethicists are brought in to facilitate the successful roll-out of a new treatment, service or product, but once it has been designed. Use this website to bring SHAPE researchers onboard early on.

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