1. Peripheral Future: Design Answers Rural Title: Peripheral Future[1]: Design Answers Rural Date: 15th August 2026 – 25th August 2026 2. Curatorial Narrative Text (For Publics) Where are you all coming from to see this exhibition? Most of you are probably residents of Edinburgh. I’m sure many of you have visited the villages surrounding the […]

In this extra post, Andrei Ghira, Eduardt Nica, and Aurora Constantin, from the School of Informatics, and Gennaro Imperatore, from Computer and Information Sciences (University of Strathclyde), discuss two MSc projects aimed at embedding accessibility into the curriculum. These projects address the pedagogical challenge of teaching accessibility as a fundamental principle of education, moving beyond […]

This February I was back at the PHPUK conference in London. The venue this year was 1 America Square with a historic wall through the middle of one of the rooms. There were three tracks to follow so unfortunately we couldn’t go to all the talks, but managed to cover two thirds. It Depends – […]

1.From Scale to Intimacy This semester has been a journey of recalibrating my curatorial gaze. In Week 1, I was preoccupied with institutional scale and the cold authority of grand galleries. However, the ECA exhibition confirmed that successful curation is not about filling space, but about managing relationships. Whether through the Ji Ju Collective’s “Our […]

On Monday 13th of April there was a change made to the University Office 365 mail service (Outlook). Deleted messages that end up in your “Deleted Items” mail folder will now be permanently deleted after 90 days. This is the restoration of the previous behaviour of the “Deleted Items” folder, but for some reason has […]

The 10 March 2026 found me in Wuhan, with colleagues at our inaugural workshop of the UK–China Health Research Alliance (UKCHRA). The alliance brought together over 20 leading universities and research institutes from the UK and China, along with other key stakeholders, to set up a platform for engagement of academic researchers, industry professionals, and […]