Last year, I had the honour of giving the Doug Altman Memorial Lecture at the Peer Review Congress in Chicago. As long ago as 1994, Doug famously wrote, ‘we need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons’ (Altman, 1994). And so, I took as my theme, Does the Journal Article have […]

Hi, I’m Ailís! I’m a fourth-year GeoSciences student and a Student Ambassador for the School of GeoSciences. I’m going to take you through a day in my life as a student at the University of Edinburgh, and hopefully help you feel a bit more informed as to what your life could look like if you […]

In this post, Dr Maryam Almohammad and Master’s student, Lara Pacini, discuss their experience of group work through film-making –  a creative, collaborative approach in the Intercultural Language Learner Identity course, part of the MSc in Language and Intercultural Communication at Moray House School of Education and Sport. This post is part of the Group Work series. […]

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 […]