News & Insights
From the places most affected: women leading engineering for climate justice
This week’s News & Insights piece features eight projects in the cohort where that’s playing out — from Sarah Owuor’s work with women smallholder farmers in Machakos, to Hellena Nuwagaba’s all-women team in Uganda, to Mhairi Sime’s research on energy poverty in Shetland.
How should we approach shaping climate solutions? The FeME Co-Creation Forum wants to know
Applications are now open for the Co-Creation Forum — a 2.5-day gathering in Edinburgh bringing together practitioners, policy-makers, academics, and community-engagement experts to build a shared agenda for co-creation of solutions to climate change. Apply by 17:00 BST, Monday 13 July 2026.
No Boundaries: What We Found in the Spaces Between
Reflections from our one-day festival of cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Search
From the places most affected: women leading engineering for climate justice
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...
How should we approach shaping climate solutions? The FeME Co-Creation Forum wants to know
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: What We Found in the Spaces Between
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...
How FeME funds: notes from a small experiment in doing things differently
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...
From Machakos to Fair Isle: meet the 2026 FeME Seed Fund cohort
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,...
Meet FeME’s inaugural Earth Fellows: Jessica Chacko and Jeanne Michalon
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...
Rethinking Engineering: Power, Participation, and the Systems That Shape Our Work
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...
Launching FeME Steps – Where Students and Organisations Collaborate on Climate Solutions
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...
FeME launches new webinar series: FeME Perspectives – Showcasing our people, practice, and purpose
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...
Don’t miss out: Represent & Innovate Seed Fund closes 10 March
FeME's Represent and Innovate Seed Fund is a new initiative designed to spark inclusive innovation and amplify voices historically underrepresented in engineering. Part of FeME’s wider mission to reimagine the engineering sector, the Failure Mode 4-powered seed fund...
FeME launches London Climate Challenge workshops on Energy and Transport
Failure Modes of Engineering (FeME) is launching a new Climate Challenge workshop series bringing together researchers, practitioners and stakeholders to explore how engineering solutions for climate change and biodiversity loss can be developed in ways that are...
FeME launches ‘No Boundaries’ Conference and Festival
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...