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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.
Ten years ago, I moved on from my job as a lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), where I had worked with Jo for five years in my first academic post. During my time there, I met Sandro – another early career lecturer – who had just moved from his home […]
AI development keeps evolving as do the ways people seek to use AI. Traditional software development runs the risk of trying to perfect AI features people won’t use. Revisiting our previous AI research helped me tease out new opportunity spaces for AI features to help with content design tasks. May 29, 2026
Here is the Teams recording link: Recap: SCPHRP Weekly Meeting 2026 (Hybrid) 17 March | Meeting | Microsoft Teams May 31, 2026
By Emma, from USA, studying MSc Social Anthropology Hello! My name is Emma and I am a Masters’ student studying Social Anthropology and moved here from the USA. I love to head to Tollcross for all the fun shops, cafés and bakeries there. Tollcross has lots of local shops that are truly unique to Edinburgh. Babka Babka is the reason I first went to Tollcross; I was […]
It remains remarkable to me that the ellipted quotation from Bourdieu and Passeron – ‘Academic language is … no one’s mother tongue’ – has taken on the status of a truism. Granted it is an elegant and appealing formulation, expressing something many people can readily recognise: that even native speakers of a language have had […]
