This document provides a collective response from several University of Edinburgh
academics to the questions posed as part of Dame Judith Hackitt’s Call for Evidence,
Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety. The University of Edinburgh has been an
internationally leading centre for fire safety engineering research and education since the
mid 1970s, and was the first institution globally to offer masters degrees in this discipline (in
1974). The fire safety engineering group at Edinburgh currently comprises 9 academic staff
and more than 25 full time PhD students
