Changing the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.

Adepeju(Peju) Adeyemo, is a third-year HCP-Med student at the University of Edinburgh, currently working as a Primary Care Physician Assistant. Her interests lie at the intersection of compassionate clinical practice, mental health and the evolving role of humanity in healthcare. Read on to learn about her experiences as a mature student studying towards a medicine degree. When people think […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Canvas have apologised for the trouble they caused. Always exciting to see learning technology in the news Canvas hack: Company pays criminals to delete students’ stolen data – BBC News We wave goodbye to Emily, our Captioning Consultant intern from Informatics, who has been seduced away […]

The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and her Universities in the Nineteenth Century George Elder Davie (First edition 1961; third edition 2013, Edinburgh University Press) The Scottish university system differed markedly from the English one. It prioritised broad general education and a strong philosophical foundation: Four-year general degree (usually entered at age 15–16), providing a broad education […]

We currently have trial access to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies on a limited time basis. Disability studies is an established interdisciplinary subject that spans the fields of social science, the humanities, and education, not to mention the many academic subjects therein, be it progressively or potentially. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability […]

In June 860, the Carolingian kings Louis the German, Charles the Bald and Lothar II all met at Koblenz on the River Rhine in 860. This ‘summit’ meeting was one of several in late Carolingian Francia, as the kings negotiated their relations with one another. This particular meeting was convened to draw a line under […]