In this post, Mary Collacott, Joe Noteboom and Emma McAllister share why and how the Edinburgh Futures Institute Learning Technology Team designed a time-travel themed escape room to help students build the skills needed for hybrid group work. This post is part of the Group Work series. Most of Edinburgh Future Institute’s (EFI’s) postgraduate courses are […]

iJADE Conference 2025 | Ecologies Bristol Arnolfini, Saturday 8 November 2025 | 15:25 – 16:10 GMT Crafting Magic > Conjuring Relations https://www.nsead.org/courses-advice/events-conferences/ijade-conference-2025-ecologies/neil-mulholland/ Repo https://gitlab.com/neil-mulholland/conjuring-relations-ijade “Ecologic” in the context of art education is approached here as a complex metaphor that, at very least, blends “oikos”, “ology”, “art” and “education”. Distinct metaphorical blends offer a myriad of […]

Get out there and have your adventure today. (Stephen Mason, Ride to the Midnight Sun) On the morning before I meet Steve, it is raining heavily. I feel confident that he won’t be phased by the weather though. Steve is a true adventurer. Last year, he completed all of Scotland’s 282 Munros (mountains over 3,000 […]

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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 […]

On 27th and 28th October, the Caliphal Finances team was very happy to welcome Arietta Papaconstantinou, Professor of the History of the Byzantine World at Aix-Marseille University. On Monday, we started our discussions with Arietta briefly introducing her new ERC project, “The Imperial Encounter in Early Islamic Egypt: Dissecting the Aphrodito Archive” (Imperial Encounter), which […]