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#CelebratingTogether: Dr Simon Harley
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/learningexchange/2021/02/26/celebratingtogether-dr-simon-harley/
Edinburgh University Students’ Association’s Student-Led Teaching Awards are back to recognise outstanding members of learning and support staff. After a challenging year for everyone, we’re celebrating our worthy nominees by shouting about their successes across our digital platforms. What is your full name? Simon Harley What is your job title? Professor and Academic Head of Facilities […]
‘Social distancing’ in Latin America during the pandemic, by Rocio Nava, Alex Janus and Emily Adrion
For more than a year, the world has been grappling with the first global pandemic of the 21st century. The rapid worldwide spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has led nations to implement a host of new policy measures to protect health, to strengthen health care systems, and to control within- and cross-border spread of the […]
Glimmer of hope XXIV
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/roythompson/2020/06/13/glimmer-of-hope-xxiv/
COVID-19, ‘big data’ and rebound from lockdown. The Calcutta Cup (the oldest rugby rivalry in the world: Scotland vs. England) helps validate Apple’s mobility product – a key potential forecaster for a safe exit from lockdown. Summary How is the rebound from the lockdown progressing in Scotland? That is, how rapidly are Scots starting to […]
Fourth Year University with Hunor Deak
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/hdeak/2020/10/01/fourth-year-university-with-hunor-deak/
I attended a weekend geology field excursion as part of the course: Evolution of the Modern Earth and Cyprus Excursion for Geologists (EASC10120). I visited the area around Ballantrae. I studied mass scale folding, deep sea sediments, pillow lavas and deep crustal igneous rocks. The aims of the field trip were to improve our note […]
Football and peace in the Middle East
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sport-matters/2017/04/10/football-peace-middle-east/
By Dr Joel Rookwood How has football for peace worked in the Middle East?- Some observations: The Middle East can be considered a transcontinental region comprising approximately 370 million people who speak more than sixty languages and live across seventeen countries. The Eurocentric term is of British origin and was coined and first applied as […]
Sprint 2 | Open Toolkits - Reflective Analysis
This week, we have been studying the Artist’s Toolkit and open educational resources (OER) through various learning exercises, including reading about OER theory and visiting associated websites, using the Toolkit in practice, and producing an OER from a “closed” source. This blog will examine how to develop an Artist’s Toolkit, a thorough, open educational resource […]
Writing Skills Workshops for Doctoral Researchers
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/iad4phd/2015/09/11/writing-skills-workshops-for-doctoral-researchers/
This academic year we have a range of writing workshops designed to meet the complex demands of academic writing. The suite as set out below aims to cover the principal writing needs of researchers in the course of writing their PhD. The Writing Process: Getting Started For many researchers, starting to draft is one of […]
Children’s images online: dilemmas of participatory research
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/cysrg/2021/11/12/childrens-images-online-participatory-research-dilemmas/
Authors: Kay Tisdall, Marlies Kustatscher and Helen McAneney When – if ever – is it ethical to share images of children online for research purposes? We have found this a challenging question to answer. Our research is ever-increasingly online: we are carrying out research online, accelerated by the fall-out from COVID-19; we are working in […]
𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐭 3 ‘𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥’ 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭
This week we examine how artists develop work that appeals to senses beyond sight – taste, touch, smell and hearing. Then in the Western philosophical tradition, vision is often associated with thinking, and I agree with the question of whether Neimanis’ knowledge of the senses is open to another mode of relationship. As we all […]
How weirdness work with our cognitive visual system?
The weird The theme of our study in the past two weeks is weird. This macroscopic view of theme covers many small topics, such as mysticism, hauntology, esotericism. Also such as conspiracy theory, ancient hieroglyphs, surrealism, discordianism, and all other theoretical knowledge that cannot be explained by scientific experiments. It is difficult for all metaphysical […]
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