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Hi, I’m Bobby, and for the past year I’ve been the Graduate Innovation Intern in the Communications and Marketing team at the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre. When I first stepped into the DHI office on 1 October 2024, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect. I’d graduated two years earlier and had already worked in other roles, so I wasn’t sure if a graduate internship was the right fit. But I’m so glad I took the leap...

Bobby Laing, Graduate Innovation Intern at the Digital Health & Care Innovation Centre, recently secured £15k of grant funding, from the Young EDGE category in the latest round of the Scottish EDGE national funding competition, to support the development of his passion project, NCLSV - an accessible footwear brand catering to people with dwarfism.