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The UK Is Not Innocent - A Reader on Police Violence and Racism in the UK
By SJ Cooper-Knock Black Lives Matter protests have spread across the UK in recent weeks. These protests stand in solidarity with struggles in the US but they are also a cry for change here in the UK, where racism shapes all spheres of life, including the criminal justice system. All too often, police violence and […]
Sports diplomacy as an untapped source of globalised integration
By Stuart Murray Diplomacy today is much more than a rarefied, exclusive and secret dialogue between states. Governments the world over are experimenting with innovative types of public engagement such as cultural, digital and public diplomacy. These new, democratised types of diplomacy create fluid, plural and diverse networks of state and non-state actors, generate win-win […]
Mapping God: Characterising Religious Space in Everyday Place
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2023-24/exploring-romance-in-marseille/mollys-analysis/
By Molly Herbert For millennia, religion has been at the core of the human experience. It seems to provide us with some degree of existential footing that grounds our sense of reality and helps us make sense of our place in the world. When it comes to Romance in Marseille, religion acts the same and, […]
Global Academy degree game
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/dlam/2019/07/22/global-academy-degree-game/
Hristo Meshinski discusses his involvement in the development of an offline degree finder game. Introduction Every year the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland organise their flagship event to showcase Scottish agricultural rural life. It is a perfect day out for families with children to enjoy together. As a way to attract young talent […]
Keep your eyes on the road! Addressing road traffic safety in Australia
To arrive at the point of examining road traffic injury (RTI) deaths in Australia, I first take you to Haiti, where I have lived for over five years. When describing the driving conditions in Haiti, I often say, “Driving here is at times just organized chaos. It isn’t that drivers are looking to hit pedestrians, […]
My experience with university support
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/2021/06/university-geoscience-support/
By Erin, BSc Geography At the University of Edinburgh, the wide range of support available to all students is second to none. Whether it is just advice and guidance, mental health support or struggling with any form of disability – the university has many services in place to optimise your experience. It is very important […]
Attention Economics
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/keywordsindigitalsociology/2020/01/09/attention-economics/
INTRODUCTION ‘Attention economy’ covers a wide range of debates that stem from economics, media studies, and critiques from the social sciences. In 1971, as Herbert A. Simon described, this term came into being within the broader framework of the political economy to illustrate the pertinence of attention in a new world where there is an […]
Suicidescapes; how we are mapping the cultures and contexts in which suicide occurs
by Joe Anderson Here at the Suicide Cultures project we have been hard at work all over Scotland gathering data about people’s experiences of suicide. In our interviews, the events we have been attending, and in the notes we’ve been keeping about local areas, we have been privileged to hear profoundly moving stories about people’s […]
Making Google Analytics more old school and less creepy to work with our Beehive Pro website statistics
I’ve been having fun with Google Analytics this week😃. Yesterday, I needed to add statistical tracking to our Digital Education Team blogs on the University’s hosted version of WordPress. This has previously been no problem (eg with this blog), but with the new blogs, it didn’t work. I created a new Google account for the […]
Building a checklist for multibranding governance – our latest Design System community session
Representing brands of University partners to accurately reflect collaborations whilst ensuring integrity of the University brand is a complex, widespread issue. As part of the Design System project, I ran a session where University staff came together to work on the governance aspect of multibranding by collectively structuring a checklist. Multibranding (sometimes referred to as […]
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