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This week’s course, through further study of exhibition ethics and the inspiring personal insights of Talbot Rice gallery’s curator, James, on exhibition curation, has led me to have a deeper reflection on my exhibition project. I intend to clarify my third-week exhibition thinking by answering the five questions posed by James in class. Why exhibit? […]
A Discussion Starting from The Children Are Now Exhibition Introduction This week, I visited the exhibition “The Children Are Now” at the Talbot Rice Gallery. The exhibition focuses on the theme of children’s rights, addressing the impact of the education system, institutional environments, and power structures on children’s growth. However, one of the video works […]
In May 2025 the Suicide Cultures project hosted a 2 day symposium focused on the sociology of suicide. This is a topic that is central to the project, given our own aims to grow sociological research on suicide, as well as to showcase and share how sociological expertise and research can transform how suicide is […]
Last year, I had the honour of giving the Doug Altman Memorial Lecture at the Peer Review Congress in Chicago. As long ago as 1994, Doug famously wrote, ‘we need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons’ (Altman, 1994). And so, I took as my theme, Does the Journal Article have […]
By Carolina, from South America, studying Data Inequality and Society Something that surprised me about living in Edinburgh, as I had never been to Scotland before at all, was how much it actually felt like the fairy tales I’d seen as a kid. My background is in neuroscience and so I’m not one of those […]
Today’s Film: The Muppet Christmas Carol No list of Christmas movies would be complete without this film and I think we have saved the very best for last. This 1992 film encompasses everything that is special and magical about the Christmas season. The songs are delightful, the sets spectacular, and Michael Caine is a pitch […]
