What is Student Engagement? Student engagement is a complex and contested term. Researchers have argued there are different kinds of engagement: cognitive, behavioural, emotional, etc. Bryson (2014) helpfully distinguishes between what he calls Engaging Students (what institutions do to engage students) and Students Engaging (what students do to engage with their studies and the university); […]

Blog post written by Olivia Turner On 9th May 2024, we held a hybrid workshop at St Columba’s Hospice Care, Edinburgh, as part of our IMAGINED project. IMAGINED stands for Investigating Meaning-making and the cocreation of Guidelines for Evaluation IN participatory Arts for Dementia. The project is led by ECRED in partnership with the Royal […]

Tanvi shares her experience of being an international student, and the supportive community of School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Student life in Edinburgh is colourful and multifaceted, and this is something that the University has continued to provide throughout my time as a student here. My experience at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology […]

  In-person Symposium, held at Edinburgh College of Art Hosted by Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh & Abertay University, Dundee in association with CoSTAR Realtime Labs 29th & 30Th August 2024 As new developments in computing have led to the promise/threat of games and animation generated in minutes by AI, there has been […]

As Sophia's time as an intern in the Social Impact Unit of the Department of Social Responsibility and Sustainability (SRS) came to an end, she reflects on what she learned about social impact, strategy, and community engagement.

An assessment of Onsager’s concept of scale invariance: 1 We stated Onsager’s criterion [1] for an inertial range in terms of a scale-invariant flux as equation (4) in our post of 24 June 2024. In order to assess Onsager’s concept, we begin by considering the Lin equation in terms of the energy spectrum $E(k,t)$ and […]