The University of Edinburgh recently unveiled its Research Cultures Action Plan for 2026-28. This document provides a blueprint for enhancing our research environment, and fostering excellence across the community. The plan underscores the University’s steadfast commitment to upholding the core values of citizenship, wellbeing, equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI), ethics and integrity, and learning and […]

Marking the 75th anniversary of the ECHR, the Global Justice Academy hosted an event welcoming Dr Elaine Webster, from the University of Strathclyde. This engaging session offered insight into her research, which interrogates the relationship between the concept of human dignity and human rights law, focusing on themes of consensus, contestation, and culture. Subsequently, Dr […]

On Thursday, 26 February 2026, the University of Edinburgh’s Digital Research Services welcomed colleagues from across disciplines to the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) for the Second Annual Digital Research Conference—a day that made one thing clear: digital research is no longer a niche specialism, but the connective tissue running through modern scholarship. From the moment […]

In this post, Liam Hill describes his experience of tutoring on the ‘

by Mingxi Li, Psychotherapy and Counselling January brought a wave of “New Year, New Me” energy, and I decided to try something new. I needed something embodied – something to pull me out of my head and break the cycle of endless rumination at my desk. I’ve always wanted to try bouldering. I booked my […]

For medical students Robyn Adams and Maria-Ariadna Ghiuta, international healthcare experience can be truly transformative but financial barriers often stand in the way.Thanks to the Go Abroad Fund, their ambitions became reality. Discover how donor support is shaping the future of healthcare leaders.