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Life as an LGBTQ+ student in Edinburgh

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/shca/life-as-an-lgbtq-student-in-edinburgh/

As part of Pride Month, Tristan (Ancient and Medieval History, MA Hons) shares his experience as an LGBTQ+ student at the University of Edinburgh. Navigating your first year at university can feel both intimidating and exciting as you get to grips with higher education, exploring a new city and meeting new people. This experience can […]


Member Bios: Research fellows

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/decolonise/2024/02/08/member-bios-research-fellows/

Research fellows   Dr Simon Buck will be looking at the links between the University and African enslavement     Dr Simon Buck is an historian and medical humanities scholar with interests in the US South, histories of medicine and music, and the impacts of slavery-derived wealth on British charities in the eighteenth and nineteenth […]


Literature review: the process 

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/studyhub/2024/03/06/literature-review-the-process/

You may have to write a literature review as part of a research project or as a standalone assignment. There is a lot involved in writing a literature review. So here are some general tips on the process.   Search for relevant literature. You will need a clearly defined research question. Search for keywords and related […]


Week 7 - Project Progress

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/dmsp-performance24/2024/03/07/week-7-team-progression/

Interactive Stage Installation On the afternoon of this Monday, the team members conducted their first rehearsal in Alison House, which did not include an actual scene. During the rehearsal, our primary focus was on refining the length information and presentation format of each scene, to set a rough timeline for sound production. Below is the […]


Week 11: Semester Review (12/10 would take again)

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2607322_knowledge-integration-and-project-planning-narrative-futures-art-data-and-society-2023/2023/12/11/week-11-semester-review-12-10-would-take-again/

I can’t believe I arrived in Edinburgh three months and three days ago. It feels like ages ago, and also like I just got here, like, yesterday. This semester has been stressful, forcing me to confront bad habits that I’ve had since my undergrad days, but has also expanded my understanding of storytelling; its ubiquity, […]


About us

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/research-bow/about-us/

Research Bow was launched in March 2019 with the vision to create a platform to share advice, experiences and news with our community of postgraduate research (PGR) students in the School of Health in Social Science at the University of Edinburgh. Since then, Research Bow has experienced steady growth with the help of a core […]


Report on an Anthropologist: Eduardo Kohn

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2051118_social-anthropology-1a-the-life-course-2021-2022sem1/2021/11/28/report-on-an-anthropologist-eduardo-kohn/

Eduardo Kohn is Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill University. He has spent twenty-five years carrying out anthropological research with Amazonian people who live in one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems on this planet. Kohn focuses his attention on an “emerging understanding of semiosis” (Kohn 2007:3) where sign processes are not exclusive to humans, […]


To PhD, or not to PhD?

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/institute-genetics-cancer/2023/01/11/to-phd-or-not-to-phd/

Where do I want to be in 5 years? Move to a new city? Masters…then PhD? Gap year? Job? Just over a year ago as my 21-year-old self was creeping closer to being released from the comfort of my undergraduate environment, these were just a selection of the many questions surfacing in my mind as […]


【ERC Coffee House】Bisimulation metrics for representation learning

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/he-lab/2023/02/20/bisimulation-metrics-for-representation-learning/

Prof Prakash Panangaden will give a talk, in person and online, for the Coffee House Tech Talk Series. The details of the talk are below. A lunch will be provided. When : 22 Feb 2023, 11am-12nn & 1330pm-1430pm Where (Physically) : Coffee House, 4/F, Bayes Centre, 47 Potterrow, Edinburgh EH8 9BT, UK Where (Virtually) : https://welink.zhumu.com/j/0205600289 […]


Debunking the myths about chemical engineering

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/engineering/2023/03/31/debunking-the-myths-about-chemical-engineering/

By Claire, fourth year, BEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering Before entering university, my thoughts on chemical engineering were very much on the surface level. I knew that it involved a substantial amount of chemistry but that was about it. The saying goes, you don’t really know something until you’ve tried it out and after four years, […]


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