Week 2    Thoughts On Aesthetics and Politics 🐦Reflections following the lecture and the exhibition This week’s lecture on aesthetics and politics remind me of an exhibition I visited recently, Resistance, at Modern Two in Edinburgh. The exhibition focus on “How protest shaped Britain and photography shaped protest”. It brought together works by thousands of […]

Feeling the pressure of exams creeping up? It’s easy to get caught in a cycle of nonstop study that leaves you stressed and burnt out. But luckily your library has a treasure trove of resources designed to help you relax, recharge, and maintain your wellbeing during this intense period. From our specially curated Wellbeing Collection […]

Claude and I have been working together to do more stuff since my first blog post about Claude. We’ve added a whole lot of new things to our prototype Survey of Scottish Witchcraft site including a chatbot to ask questions about the data (a challenge received by Lesley Greer), ‘stories’ …

By Dhiya, from South Africa, studying BEng Electronics and Electrical Engineering  Year of study: Third year undergraduate Accommodation type: Private student accommodation Part-time job: Student Ambassador at the University  A week in my life By third year, my weeks feel very full. Between long teaching days, labs and society commitments, I’ve learned that the only way I stay sane […]

PhD training workshop: ‘Navigating the Public Environmental Humanities’ Location: 1.50 Hybrid teaching room EFI, 1 Lauriston Pl, EH3 9EF Time: 9:45-8:30pm (dinner included) Date: 14th May 2026 Join us for an in-person SGSAH-funded workshop organised by EEHN PhD Lab members. This day-long training event will bring doctoral students together for a series of talks and […]

1.Introduction: From Looking to Perceiving At the beginning of this semester, my understanding of the countermeasure exhibition is mainly at the level of visual arrangement: selecting works, placing them in space, and creating meaning through sorting. This assumption began to shift during a visit to the SSA 127th Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, where […]