By Carolina, from South America, studying Data Inequality and Society Something that surprised me about living in Edinburgh, as I had never been to Scotland before at all, was how much it actually felt like the fairy tales I’d seen as a kid. My background is in neuroscience and so I’m not one of those […]

Over the coming weeks and months, there will be edge switch upgrades occurring on each floor of the Forum and the Bayes Centre. Scope: Wired connections in offices will be affected. WiFi, phones and doors will not be affected. This is being done to ensure the security, reliability, and modernity of our network. On each […]

The internet is a great place to keep in touch with others. Whether you exchange thoughts with strangers about your favourite season finale on social media, play and chat while at home during a global pandemic, or like in my case, get to talk to friends and family living in another country – technology enables our need to socialise.  However, the way we form connections online, and the tech we use to do so, also comes […]

Exhibition Viewing: The Children Are Now 📍Gallery: Talbot Rice Gallery This is an exhibition about “childism”, calling on people to seek ways to grant children rights and to reconsider the role of children in shaping our world. Exhibition layout: First exhibition area: On the first floor of the entrance hall, The Boat People is screened, […]

Week 3 Blog Feb 1, 2026

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 […]