This summer, all colleagues at the University, across all disciplines, directorates, and job families, have been given the opportunity to contribute to Healthy & Equitable Futures via the College of Arts & Humanities' Catalyst Lab. 

By 2050, our health will be shaped by shifting global power structures, social and economic trends, our changing climate and technological innovations. These innovative, design-led workshops will explore what our future could look like and consider potential solutions and novel approaches to the challenges ahead.

At the end of the process there will be opportunities to apply for funding from Glasgow Changing Futures to support further development of the ideas and collaborations that come out of the process.

We are open to ambitious, innovative ideas in research, teaching, partnerships or institutional practice - whether that is novel interdisciplinary science, forging influential new partnerships or alliances, testing new ways of supporting our students to become future world changers, looking at organisational practices or maybe even ambitious initiatives that cut across all four areas.

The full process will run for 12 months and will engage a range of external partners, stakeholders, and communities on the challenge of health equity. 

If you are interested in finding out more about the process contact: coah-catalyst@glasgow.ac.uk

We look forward to updating you on progress of the Labs towards the end of the year.

First published: 18 June 2025

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What is the Catalyst Lab?

Catalyst Lab emerges from Partnership Catalyst: a unique design-led knowledge exchange infrastructure that seeks to transform the processes by which our sector engages external organisations and communities to address urgent real-world challenges. The Lab is a space to engage with design innovation methods as a route to developing new collaborative opportunities for interdisciplinary working at the University.