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It’s Second-hand September this month. Oxfam and other second-hand shops are encouraging us to buy more of our clothes and other items second hand. The fashion industry uses a massive amount of water creating clothes and is one of the most polluting industries. ‘Buying one second hand t-shirt and a pair of jeans could save […]
I hadn’t planned to focus my first published PhD article on our ‘not knowing’ about intergenerational suicide. I have analysis to share and haunted stories to tell. However, in my work as a PhD researcher (at the University of Edinburgh) and as a psychotherapist, I was encountering surprise from other therapists and suicide researchers: What, […]
At the end of August, the Animation (in) Flux symposium took place at Edinburgh College of Art, with support from the University of Edinburgh, Abertay University, NeON, Society for Animation Studies, Abertay Game Lab, Animation Research Network Scotland, and CoSTAR Realtime Lab. Thank you to all the delegates who presented on a wide variety of […]
by Lisa Cowan, PhD candidate, University of Edinburgh In Armstead v Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance Co.[1] the appellant, Lorna Armstead, was involved in a road collision. While her own car was out of action, she hired a rental car, a Mini Cooper, from Helphire. By a terrible coincidence, she was then involved in a […]
In this first post of a two part series, we asked students how their transition to university went from a social and cultural change perspective. Social change In the social sense, I’ve seen marked differences between school and university. I went to an ordinary state school in Fife. It was relatively homogenous: we mostly had […]
