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What one piece of advice would you give students for the new semester?
We asked university staff to share some of their best advice to students about studying and issues such as time management or organising work. Here’s what they said: Organisation Be organised! It’s just as important to know your way around your online environments as it is to know your way around the physical campus. – […]
Qinglin - Draft Ideas
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/dmsp-place24/2024/01/31/qinglin-draft-ideas/
In last week’s seminar with Asad, we discussed some preliminary ideas. After a comprehensive discussion, our main direction is to create an impactful audio-visual interactive installation. (Pic 1: Our ideas recorded by Asad during the seminar) I am particularly interested in Ming Du’s idea that “time is distance.” After class, I continued to discuss this […]
Week 6 / Open Learning in Practice and / Planning for Learners
This week, I have been learning about how we can look at the process of moving from knowledge to action. Throughout the previous week, I have focused on examining and exploring my ‘Open Learning in Practice and Planning for Learners. I started from a personal perspective, thinking about my art open learning in practice, who […]
Should We All Give Up Eating Meat to Save the Planet?
by Isabel Fletcher’Should We All Give Up Eating Meat to Save the Planet?’, was an event held recently in the Red Theatre at Summerhall as part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival (EISF) on the 6th April 2018. I have recently been conducting interviews with researchers, policymakers and those working for NGOs asking them about […]
Research in the context of global health emergencies: writing a background paper for the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
By Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra and Nayha Sethi In 2016, in the wake of the Ebola and the Zika outbreaks, the international community’s response to global health emergencies and their associated moral, regulatory and political implications once again came under intense scrutiny. For the bioethics and governance communities these were real challenges, forcing us to revisit some […]
Year 5 Careers Fair: General practice
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/medstudentlife/2023/02/03/year-5-careers-fair-general-practice/
Representing General Practice are Dr Rachel Wood, Dr Camilla Creagh-Barry, Dr Robert Duncan and Dr Andrew McClarey. Dr Rachel Wood I graduated from Liverpool in 1995 and enjoyed three years in hospital general medical posts, before entering general practice and completing GP training in 2000. After 10 months in a locum position, I joined […]
Background research and context
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/dmsp-place23/2023/01/26/background-research-and-context/
Background Research Place refers to “a space or location with meaning” to the more complex “an area having unique physical and human characteristics interconnected with other places.” while non-place means transitory places, where human actors pass through as anonymous individuals but do not relate/identify with in any intimate sense. These three components help to define […]
Research Staff Hub – You said, we did
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/iad4researchers/2021/06/28/research-staff-hub-you-said-we-did/
This post is by Alex Peden, IAD secondee and Research Strategy Manager in the Usher Institute. Between August and November 2018 40 researchers, post-doc champions and support staff were interviewed through face-to-face meetings, a research staff society online survey and via email to gather information and ideas on how the University could provide better support to […]
Weekly Changes - 22/05/2023
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/lcfg/2023/05/26/weekly-changes-22-05-2023/
A variety of changes this week with the majority being associated with the work on the new Jammy platform. Here are the details of the significant changes… Ubuntu Jammy Details of recent progress on the Ubuntu Jammy platform are now recorded separately, see the latest report. network The LCFG network component on Ubuntu has been […]
Shaping Youth Futures
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sukanyakrishnamurthy/
Aligning livelihoods options and inclusive city aims in India and Brazil Shaping Youth Futures research project aims to create inclusive cities where all young people can contribute, participate and thrive. Our project emerges out of young people’s requests for improved livelihood options in their own urban contexts. It builds on established research partnerships and existing […]
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