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What the current treatment of domestic labour tells us about the future of work in Kenya
In western Africa, ordinary citizens of Kenya are faced with unjustly dire future work prospects. As the COVID-19 pandemic grips all corners of the globe, the domestic workers of Kenya have been forced out of their respective occupations with little to no safety net. As articulated by Kenyan journalist Kwamchetsi Makokha, her piece describes how […]
Outside influence and client
Meetings with advisors After our first meeting with our advisor, Katriona Edlmann and Dylan Price on 22/10/2020, Nils (my classmate who I was planning on working with) and I were able to get our ideas out in the open. Both our advisors were very impressed with our ideas and thought the next step would be […]
ALT C 17, Building #CMALT Community – Empowerment in Learning Technology
Last month I was privileged to attend the 24th Annual Conference of the Association for Learning Technology (#ALTC) from the 5 – 7 September 2017 at the University of Liverpool. The conference title was “Beyond islands of innovation – how Learning Technology became the new norm(al)” and I was particularly keen to go when I […]
Adapting our transport systems for a changing climate
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sustainability/2020/adapting-our-transport-systems-for-a-changing-climate/
Siôn Pickering, our Projects Coordinator for climate conscious travel, explores how our transport systems need to change in accordance to the more frequent extreme weather events. I think we can agree that climate change is real and it is happening right now. How far you agree that humans are causing it, is up to you. […]
How to have a sustainable Christmas
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sustainability/2018/a-sustainable-christmas/
Megan McGrath, Communications Coordinator, provides advice on how to reduce your environmental impact this Christmas. Christmas is one the most celebrated holidays in the UK. With Black Friday, the Boxing Day sales and an abundance of food and indulgence, it seems that the festive period has transformed into a celebration of consumerism more than anything […]
EdWeb community survey results
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/edweb-community-survey-results/
At the end of 2017 we sent out a survey to our website community to find out what EdWeb features was the top priority for them. We got a great response – the best ever! 204 people responded casting a total of 985 votes. We’ll share the results of the survey and what the next steps […]
10 years on: Yanick Crow’s reflections on the type I interferonopathies
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/institute-genetics-cancer/2021/10/22/10-years-on-yanick-crows-reflections/
In a landmark review published in Nature Reviews Immunology this week, The type I interferonopathies: 10 years on, Yanick Crow and Dan Stetson (University of Washington) look back at what has been learned since Yanick first coined the term in 2011, and how the field may develop in the years ahead. To mark this milestone, […]
Sporting Biographies of Scottish Women
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sport-matters/2018/11/30/sporting-biographies-of-scottish-women/
By Grant Jarvie Celebrating Scottish Sporting Women on St Andrew’s Day Between 2006 and 2018 we have carefully researched, edited and helped to produce a number of entries within the 1st and 2nd editions of The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. Here we celebrate the contribution of Scottish Sporting Women by releasing just some of the […]
Destroy Athens
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/neilmulholland/2007/07/09/destroy-athens/
Young Athenians, DESTROY Athens – 1st Athens Biennial Curated by Neil Mulholland www.youngathenians.co.uk 9th September – 18th November 2007 43 Keramikou Street, Metaxourgio, Athens, Greece Tam A, Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth, Craig Coulthard, Keith Farquhar, Tommy Grace, Darius Jones, David MacLean, Ellen Munro, One O’clock Gun, Mullen & Lee, Keith MacIsaac, Katie Orton, Kate […]
Sprint4_Week8#The Common: further reading reflection
Further reading part: The commons: Infrastructures for troubling times In this article, the author explores the connection and disconnection between elements of movement, institutions, infrastructure, commons, rights, and more. He thought infrastructure was not the same as a system or structure, because infrastructure was defined by movements or patterns of social forms. It is the […]
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