Welcome to the July’s Hot Topic: Navigating complexity through interdisciplinary learning and teaching Universities today stand at a crossroads; they are caught between tradition and transformation. As we confront rapid societal shifts, technological advancements, and increasingly complex global challenges, how can higher education evolve to remain relevant, impactful, and empowering for students? This month’s Hot […]

In this guest blog, Research Data Service’s Evelyn Williams reflects on the recent Edinburgh Open Research Conference, highlighting presentations which resonated with them and pointed to the future of open research culture.   On 4th June 2025, we held the 4th annual Edinburgh Open Research Conference. The conference welcomed anyone who is part of a research […]

Today, we’re celebrating the first birthday of the Caliphal Finances blog! A year ago, we, postdocs Noëmie Lucas and Eline Scheerlinck, launched this website to give the ERC project Caliphal Finances an online presence. Since then, we’ve published over 50 posts, documenting the activities and research of the team. This year, we’ve shared 18 “Spotlights,” […]

Welcome to the website of the Caliphal Finances project! This website is the online space of the Caliphal Finances project to share upcoming events, collaborations and conversations with other researchers and research teams, and other exciting news. We will also regularly shine a spotlight on specific documents, objects, or issues that we are grappling with […]

A few weeks ago, a hybrid workshop took place between Princeton and Edinburgh, organized by the ‘Balzan Seminar on the Formation, Maintenance, and Failure of States in the Muslim World before 1800’, directed by Michael Cook from Princeton University, Antoine Borrut from the University of Maryland, and Caliphal Finances PI Marie Legendre. Part of this workshop […]

This is how we do it… These images give an idea of the process for computer numerical control (CNC) cutting timber joinery into large engineered wood products. Here a dovetail joint is cut with a cross-laminated timber (CLT) mortise and a laminated veneer lumber (LVL) tenon, to create a test specimen to investigate the strength […]