Changing the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.

Ten years ago, I moved on from my job as a lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), where I had worked with Jo for five years in my first academic post. During my time there, I met Sandro – another early career lecturer – who had just moved from his home […]

By Emma, from USA, studying MSc Social Anthropology Hello! My name is Emma and I am a Masters’ student studying Social Anthropology and moved here from the USA. I love to head to Tollcross for all the fun shops, cafés and bakeries there. Tollcross has lots of local shops that are truly unique to Edinburgh.   Babka Babka is the reason I first went to Tollcross; I was […]

It remains remarkable to me that the ellipted quotation from Bourdieu and Passeron – ‘Academic language is … no one’s mother tongue’ – has taken on the status of a truism. Granted it is an elegant and appealing formulation, expressing something many people can readily recognise: that even native speakers of a language have had […]

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 […]

The MABEL Trial The MABEL trial investigated the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of low-dose, low-acting oral morphine in patients with chronic breathlessness. Despite chronic breathlessness being a global problem with disabling symptoms, its health economic implications have not previously been comprehensively studied. 143 participants (75 morphine and 67 placebo) were randomised in 11 UK hospitals as […]