Spring Dissertation and Thesis Festival 23-27 February 2026: We have an exciting week of events planned for the Library’s Dissertation & Thesis Festival this February to highlight how the Library can help students succeed with their dissertation or thesis. Our programme includes a Discovery Day on Monday 23 February, when the Main Library (at George Square) will feature stalls from digital resource publishers and our own library teams highlighting our huge range of […]

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This page contains a brief quantitative summary of the signatories on the Open Letter to the LSA Regarding Steven Pinker (TOL) and the letter by Jacobson, Partee and Pesetsky (PPJ). In total, 623 TOL signatures were analyzed. We provide a few notes on our methodology, but would like to first emphasize that this discussion is […]

Week 3 marked a critical point in the development of my curatorial thinking, as it required moving beyond descriptive reflection towards a more research-led and analytical engagement with both collective work and my emerging individual project. In response to feedback on earlier blog posts, this entry focuses on situating my ideas within curatorial discourse, supported […]

This week’s course, through further study of exhibition ethics and the inspiring personal insights of Talbot Rice gallery’s curator, James, on exhibition curation, has led me to have a deeper reflection on my exhibition project. I intend to clarify my third-week exhibition thinking by answering the five questions posed by James in class. Why exhibit? […]

A Discussion Starting from The Children Are Now Exhibition Introduction This week, I visited the exhibition “The Children Are Now” at the Talbot Rice Gallery. The exhibition focuses on the theme of children’s rights, addressing the impact of the education system, institutional environments, and power structures on children’s growth. However, one of the video works […]