In this post, Sebastian and colleagues, Roisin McKelvey, Katie Nicoll Baines, Rebecca Shade, Bjorn Spain, Ollie Cahya, and Ash Scholz, showcase the Community Conversations – a joint project between EUSA, Student Experience Services, HR, the Staff Pride Network and the University’s LGBTQ+ Committee, funded by the Student Partnership Agreement. The Conversations sought to empower LGBTQ+ […]

We celebrated the first year of EdWeb 2 with an event for the EdWeb 2 community on Tuesday 13 January 2026.  In this blog, I revisit our event planning and event highlights, and offer key takeaways from the presentations as a recap for those who joined us and an update for those who couldn’t make it – hope we’ll see you next time!  Planning a birthday party for a web platform  We started brainstorming content for […]

We’ve reached the next stage in the FLF Round 10 application process – the reviews are in! If you are currently managing the emotions of seeing how your precious idea has been received by the outside world, this blog might help. It’s based on questions from previous applicants and draws on my experiences at FLF […]

Blog post co-written by Ann Burnett and Olivia Turner. In this blog, Olivia Turner talks to Ann Burnett to discuss the key concept of ‘meaning-making’ that has been central to the IMAGINED project. Ann Burnett is a writer and lived experience advisor. Olivia Turner is a visual artist and researcher at the University of Edinburgh. […]

The most recent knowledge portal in many organisations isn’t just a document repository or an intranet that holds key documents; it’s probably an AI chatbot. If you just ask it about a particular policy, or a decision that was made, or what actions you must take according to a process, it will answer your question […]

In October 2025, the Official Historian of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC), Dr George Hay, presented the findings of the second report from the CWGC’s Non-commemoration programme, this time on the Second World War. The CWGC has undertaken a five-year global programme addressing historical inequalities in commemoration of the two world wars. Their first […]