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From Machakos to Fair Isle: meet the 2026 FeME Seed Fund cohort
Nineteen projects. Four continents. One shared question: 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?
Meet FeME’s inaugural Earth Fellows: Jessica Chacko and Jeanne Michalon
We are delighted to welcome Jessica Chacko and Jeanne Michalon to FeME as our inaugural Earth Fellows. Through the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Earth Initiative, they bring fresh perspectives from sustainability, mechanical engineering, education, and communications. In this Q&A, they share their backgrounds, what FeME means to them, and what they hope to contribute as they support more inclusive, climate-conscious engineering.
Rethinking Engineering: Power, Participation, and the Systems That Shape Our Work
Engineering isn’t just shaped by technical challenges, but by the systems and cultures we work within. This reflection explores why making space for these conversations is essential to creating more inclusive and effective engineering.
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FeME Launches Three New Seed Funds to Advance Inclusive, Climate-Responsive Engineering
FeME is delighted to announce the launch of three seed funds designed to support inclusive, community-centred, and climate-responsive engineering across the FeME network. Together, these calls strengthen the foundations of co-created research, equitable training, and...
FeME Expands: Meet Our New Team Member, Jordan McInally
We are delighted to welcome Jordan McInally to the FeME team. With over 12 years of experience in Higher Education, she joins us from the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities – the world’s first national graduate school – where she supported the...
FeME Launches the Data for Change Award with CeeD
Engineers can use data to change the world for the better. With high-quality data, engineers are better equipped to tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time, including climate change and biodiversity loss. But collecting and analysing this data...
Reimagining Engineering Through Connection: The Experience of 3 Climate Challenge Participants
What happens when engineers, scientists, and community practitioners from across the world sit together to talk not about success, but failure? At the FeME Climate Challenge in Edinburgh, over 60 participants from 18 countries came together to explore that very...
Leading with Inclusion and Imagination: A Conversation with Maty Tall, Chair of the FeME Advisory Board
FeME’s Independent Advisory Board brings together global leaders in engineering, systems thinking, and inclusive innovation to help guide the network’s growth and impact. The Board’s role is to advise, challenge, and amplify FeME’s mission to ensure our values of...
FeME Climate Challenge: An Event for Engineering Futures
The inaugural FeME Climate Challenge gathered more than 60 participants from 18 countries for two days of collaboration, reflection, and experimentation in Edinburgh in September 2025. It marked the launch of the Failure Modes of Engineering (FeME) network plus, a...
The FeME Tapestry: Weaving Stories of Inclusive Engineering
When we launched the Failure Modes of Engineering Network (FeME), one of our first priorities was to create a way to showcase the breadth and depth of people and projects working to reimagine engineering for a just and sustainable future. That vision has become the...
Why Failure: Engineering Lessons for a Just Future
Engineering has always been about problem-solving. We design systems to work reliably, products to perform consistently, and infrastructure to endure. But here is the uncomfortable truth: engineering fails all the time. We see it when flood defences collapse, when...
Launching FeME: Reimagining Engineering Together
We are proud to launch the Failure Modes of Engineering Network (FeME), a collaboration between the Universities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Heriot-Watt, supported by £2.2 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). FeME has grown from...