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In this post, Callum Paterson introduces the winners of the student support awards from the Edinburgh University Students’ Association’s Teaching Awards 2025. This is the second in a series of blog posts celebrating the 2025 Teaching Award winners. Callum is the Academic Engagement & Policy Coordinator within the Student Voice team at the Students’ Association.  Introduction […]
A series of cases in the Indian courts have sought to extend the range of res extra commercium – things outside commerce – to include tobacco. Primarily a common law jurisdiction, it has applied this Roman doctrine to render the tobacco trade illegal on public health and policy grounds[1]. This treatment seems to take a […]
This section will have updated publications beyond news articles. For example reports, journal articles, chapters and tribunal decisions.  The consequences of the NHS Lothian Audiology failings are now being felt across the UK and beyond. Scottish Government (2025) Joint Letter to Mr Balfour and Lothian MSPs- Late-diagnosed Deaf Children (Lothian)and Lothian MSPs from Minister for […]
We know that hundreds of deaf children were late diagnosed in the NHS Lothian area, many severely late so they experienced language deprivation. Here we look at the statistics collected using the CRIDE Survey. This is an annual survey completed by the heads of local authority services for deaf children and returned to CRIDE, the […]
  The SubSleep study aims to understand subjective experiences of sleep from people with bipolar disorder. Additionally, we will gather information about current trends in sleep research and medicine from ‘Experts by Profession’. This pilot project has been funded by Edinburgh Mental Health Network ECR Funding 2024-2025. The SubSleep study is currently being set up. […]
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By Rachel, studying MSc History, from the USA.  My name is Rachel and I’m an American international student pursuing an MSc in History. When I was looking into the University of Edinburgh at the end of my undergraduate studies, I was particularly worried about finding friends. Coming to the UK from the US, I didn’t […]
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