Changing the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.

Guest blog, Anita Sangha – The Fairness Foundation  Last year, in partnership with the Discovering Liveability project team, The Fairness Foundation brought together a group of experts from public health, economics, sociology, and psychology to discuss the relationship between wealth inequality, suicide and liveability.   Suicide rates in the UK are on the rise. In the year 2023/24, 7,055 deaths caused by […]

What was life like for women who studied at the Edinburgh Medical School in the early twentieth century? Archival material provides insight into the challenges many medical women faced. By Juliet Gartside Forty women matriculated at the University of Edinburgh between 1869 and 1873, including the renowned Edinburgh Seven, making them the first women to […]

A week in Athens with The Play Cafe Project Team  Author: Iffah Humaira Eri Tantawi, University of Edinburgh  Roaming the streets of Athens, under the scorching sun, I was thrilled and excited to be in the city of historical and mythical stories and legends – a smell of a Mediterranean identity, a city rich in […]

Professor David Hay, Director of ZJE Translational Hub, reflects on the Beacon of Excellence seminar in Guangzhou and Shenzhen last week and reflects on the coming of a golden age for biomedicine. We talk lot about the role ZJE has in nurturing the next generation of innovators and leaders in biomedical science to address the […]

We are pleased to share the School of GeoSciences student entries to the 2025/26 Photography Competition, hosted by Edinburgh Global. This year, the competition ran from October 2025 to February 2026 with 314 entries in total across the University. The theme was Edinburgh Connections, aimed at ‘encouraging students to capture the connections at the heart […]