About Edinburgh For anyone needing a visual, here is a movie (format .mov; 16Mb) showing the city of Edinburgh from the top of Blackford Hill. The latter is one of Edinburgh’s 7 extinct volcanos which is just 5 minutes walk from the University’s science campus, Kings Buildings, on the south side of the city of […]

In this extra post, Sabina Savadova shows how she created a practical and confidence‑building study skills mini-course for students of the BA Childhood Practice programme, which is part of the widening participation strategy at the University of Edinburgh. Sabina is a Teaching Fellow in Childhood Studies and Practice at Moray House School of Education and […]

March has arrived with birdsong, sunshine and new shoots. Today I am walking with Carol, who got in touch after hearing about the project through Walk Run Cycle East Dunbartonshire. Carol had originally suggested meeting a couple of weeks ago in the hope that her granddaughter would accompany us during the half term school holidays. […]

We have recently acquired a facsimile boxed set of Archigram magazine: the Archive. Architecture’s most influential, innovative and beloved underground magazine, reissued for the first time in a handsome clamshell box! Published by Designers & Books. Inspired by comic-book culture, Pop art, psychedelia, the space race, sci-fi, Constructivism and Buckminster Fuller, the hugely influential British […]

I’ve been using ELM at work and finding it really helps speed up anything I have to write.  ELM is ‘Edinburgh access to Language Models’ and it provides secure access to a number of different LLMs. It’s available to all staff and students at the University so if you haven’t had a look at it, […]

I’ve been using ELM at work and finding it really helps speed up anything I have to write.  ELM is ‘Edinburgh access to Language Models’ and it provides secure access to a number of different LLMs. It’s available to all staff and students at the University so if you haven’t …