by Mingxi Li, Psychotherapy and Counselling January brought a wave of “New Year, New Me” energy, and I decided to try something new. I needed something embodied – something to pull me out of my head and break the cycle of endless rumination at my desk. I’ve always wanted to try bouldering. I booked my […]

After Stratos’s blog post last week, I revisited Joshua Mitchell’s experiment asking an AI to simulate what using a screen reader actually feels like, not to replace proper testing, but to generate a transcript of the experience that could be shared with stakeholders who had never encountered one. The results were striking: skip links that […]

Hear about the experiences and career paths of six alumni, while also discovering the role the University has played in their lives.

By Nahla, from Sierra Leone and Scotland, studying MA Social Anthropology with Development  Year of study: Second year undergraduate Accommodation type: Private Part-time job: waitress and Student Ambassador I feel that most people worry about budgeting in Edinburgh, where student living isn’t cheap, and stress that they won’t have fun. However, if you know roughly […]

The saying “It takes a village…” is probably the best description for what it feels like to work in research. Without the support of my mentors and the Medical Research Foundation, the present project would not exist. Creating meaningful change is only possible if we connect with lived experience experts, clinicians, policy makers, and other […]

Crafting Magic 2.0 – The Thickening   2026 Posters | Open Education Talks https://oetalks.opened.ca/category/2026-posters/ The Crafting Magic 2.0 poster links to the art project’s website, Shift/Work: Crafting Magic https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/craftingmagic/ which is written and maintained by Prof Neil Mulholland and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 It also links to project repo […]