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In this guest post, Susie Cook (Sustainability Implementation Manager) and Cat Rossiter (Manager), in the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability (SRS), give an update on the University of Edinburgh’s progress on supporting sustainable research and innovation. The University was an early signatory to the UK Concordat for the Environmental Sustainability of Research and Innovation […]
The CAHSS Cultural Heritage Research Theme supports research collaborations across all the schools of arts, humanities and social sciences at the University of Edinburgh, mobilising expertise across disciplines to produce new insights and address major societal challenges. As the Cultural Heritage portion of the theme, we work with creative industries, museums and galleries, heritage and conservation […]

A few weeks ago marked the official “beginning of the end” of my PhD as I formally filed my NITS, better known as the Notice of Intention to Submit. If I were to describe the feeling of clicking on that “submit” button, it felt like pulling the pin from a (metaphorical) grenade, but then still […]
I have walked many, many miles with my children over the years, and both of them will make excellent companions on this journey. My son, Ruairidh (usually Ru), joins me for the next of these walks. He is five years old and not yet at school. I am excited to find out what strange and […]

About Edinburgh For anyone needing a visual, here is a movie (format .mov; 16Mb) showing the city of Edinburgh from the top of Blackford Hill. The latter is one of Edinburgh’s 7 extinct volcanos which is just 5 minutes walk from the University’s science campus, Kings Buildings, on the south side of the city of […]

Today, we’re celebrating the first birthday of the Caliphal Finances blog! A year ago, we, postdocs Noëmie Lucas and Eline Scheerlinck, launched this website to give the ERC project Caliphal Finances an online presence. Since then, we’ve published over 50 posts, documenting the activities and research of the team. This year, we’ve shared 18 “Spotlights,” […]