FeME is recruiting 5-6 postgraduate and early career researchers at the University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University and the University of Glasgow as FeME Scribes to help capture conversations, ideas, and reflections emerging during Great FeME Week in Edinburgh...
Women are disproportionately affected by climate change. They are also, consistently, underrepresented in the engineering profession tasked with responding to it. FeME was built on the premise that these two facts are connected — and that both can be changed. The...
Applications are now open for the Co-Creation Forum, a 2.5-day event hosted by the Failure Modes of Engineering (FeME) network in Edinburgh this October. The forum brings together practitioners, policy-makers, academics, and community-engagement experts to work on a...
No Boundaries: A Festival of Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration was never intended to feel like a typical conference, and from the moment people came together at the University of Glasgow’s Advanced Research Centre, it was clear this was something different. As Events...
When we designed the FeME seed fund programme, we asked a question that funders don't always ask out loud: what would it take to fund engineering research the way we say engineering research should be done — inclusively, participatively, with care? The answer turned...
Nineteen projects across nineteen contexts, all asking the same question in different ways: what does it take to make engineering more inclusive, more grounded in lived experience, and more responsive to the climate and biodiversity challenges we face? In early 2026,...
We are delighted to welcome Jessica Chacko and Jeanne Michalon to the FeME team as our inaugral Earth Fellows! The Earth Fellows programme, led by the University of Edinburgh's Edinburgh Earth Initiative (EEI), brings together postgraduate and PhD students from across...
FeME was delighted to join other networks earlier in March at the Tomorrow’s Engineering Research Challenge (TERC) network meeting, hosted at the Royal Academy of Engineering. Each network was invited to share progress, team composition, challenges, and plans for the...
Failure Modes of Engineering (FeME) is delighted to announce the launch of FeME STEPS, a new programme that embodies the network's mission to create more inclusive, resilient, and adaptable engineering practices. This innovative programme brings together teams of...
Failure Modes of Engineering (FeME) is delighted to announce the launch of a new quarterly webinar series, FeME Perspectives: Showcasing our people, practice, and purpose. This new series will provide a regular space to highlight the expertise, insights, and lived...
FeME is excited to launch the Call for Proposals for No Boundaries, one-day conference and festival exploring transdisciplinary practice and collaboration, organised by the FeME Network (Failure Modes of Engineering) in collaboration with the DiveIn Centre for...