This March, we ran a spotlight series on how good safety practice for different digital communication tools. This is as part of the first of this year’s quarterly digital safety, wellbeing and citizenship themes. Read on to learn how to keep your details safe in your emails, social media channels, video conferences, and attachments.  Emails  Many people do not know that your university or employer are […]

About the Event The Engaging DoxyPEP impact team hosted a stakeholder event on Wednesday 22 Oct 2025 at Edinburgh Futures Institute. Participants explored key issues related to accessing DoxyPEP in Scotland and considered how to navigate issues of antimicrobial resistance and stewardship. Core Discussion In small groups across the in-person and online spaces, participants considered […]

Guest blog, Anita Sangha – The Fairness Foundation  Last year, in partnership with the Discovering Liveability project team, The Fairness Foundation brought together a group of experts from public health, economics, sociology, and psychology to discuss the relationship between wealth inequality, suicide and liveability.   Suicide rates in the UK are on the rise. In the year 2023/24, 7,055 deaths caused by […]

The following post is part of the Mason Institute student blog series, which publishes the excellent work undertaken by Edinburgh postgraduate students on the Contemporary Issues in Medical Jurisprudence course, a component of our Master’s in Medical Law and Ethics degree programme. ________________ Air pollution affecting children disproportionately became evident after the death of Ella […]

Part One: English influences in the Chilean Fideicomiso By León Carmona Fontaine, Assistant Professor of Private Law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Latin American and most European jurisdictions are commonly regarded as civil law jurisdictions. Yet one notable difference between the two is that trust instruments were introduced in Latin America much earlier […]

By Chang Su University of Edinburgh Introduction  Health is not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, but a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. A similar logic applies to planetary health. Achieving planetary health is not primarily about reducing harm, but about actively restoring. Criticism of mega sporting events has largely focused […]