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In this post, Anna Duncan describes a series of events piloted by students and staff at Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) and School of GeoSciences, to support each other through the dark winter days. Anna is a Student Adviser at Edinburgh Futures Institute. This post is part of the Student Partnership Agreement 2025 series. Winter in Edinburgh […]
Today’s Film: A Christmas Story Less well known in Britain, this film is a staple holiday flick in America. It follows a young boy, Ralphie, and his family through Christmas 1940. All Ralphie wants for Christmas is an Official Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle but is constantly rebuffed. “You’ll shoot your eye […]
I am becoming a bit of a peat geek and have started attending the Peat Café – a series of online lunchtime seminars featuring interdisciplinary perspectives on wetlands. The latest of these included a presentation by Phil Gould, who is now based at the University of Stirling. He presented on his postgraduate research into pollen […]
I’ve thought about writing this post for awhile because I want to share all of the scholarships I applied for as a Canadian international PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. My goal with this post is to illuminate funding opportunities, and to help other Canadian researchers and potential doctoral students alleviate the financial stress […]
A few weeks ago, I went to an event in Calgary at the Grand Theatre hosted by a group called Build Canada. I can’t remember how I came across the event details, but since leaving my full-time government role, and submitting my PhD thesis, I have a bit more flexibility in my schedule these days […]
It is International Human Rights Day, so we are exploring what human rights have to do with digital safety, wellbeing and citizenship. Are the articles in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sufficiently covering a changing digital world? How can we use human rights to become better digital citizens? And is digital inclusion a human […]
