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Recently, I’ve been working on the mobility of queens in medieval Europe, with a focus on the eleventh century. As I thought through the issues, I decided a quantitative angle might be valuable. To that end, I’ve made a list of 122 marriages through which a woman become a queen of a “different country”, 900-1150, […]
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 […]
In this post, Dr Allison Cullinane outlines how the School of Biological Sciences utilises the Skills for Success Framework to capture student reflections on their skills. Dr Cullinane demonstrates that the Framework has been a useful tool to make the skills already embedded in the School’s courses more explicit to students, but also how by […]
On Tuesday 2 June, colleagues from LTW teams came together for a Learn Resilience Exercise. The purpose was to test how we would respond if one of the University’s key teaching and learning systems became unavailable, and to think practically about what that would mean in a live incident. With cyber security and large-scale IT […]
In chapter 3 of Whose Justice, Which Rationality, MacIntyre argues that post-Homeric Greek society inherited two different types of goods. Goods of excellence are achieved through the cultivation and exercise of the virtues. They are connected with what it means to excel as a human being and as a citizen. Goods of effectiveness are goods such […]
