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Telling the history of HIV and AIDS activism in Scotland on Wikipedia
As LGBT History month draws to a close this month, I wanted to pay tribute to a collaboration brought about through Siobhan Claude at the University of Edinburgh’s Staff Pride Network and my colleague, Lorna Campbell, who suggested telling the history of HIV/AIDS activism and awareness in Scotland on Wikipedia. It seemed inconceivable that Wikipedia […]
The day we Open.Ed a new website
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ede/2016/02/09/the-day-we-open-ed-a-new-website/
The past couple of weeks have been pretty significant in terms of the development of open education at the University of Edinburgh. On the 4th of February we launched Open.Ed, a website devoted to showcasing OERs at the University. In the week prior to that an OER policy was approved by the Learning and Teaching […]
Working with disabilities in the veterinary profession
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/scope/2021/08/05/working-with-disabilities-in-the-veterinary-profession/
Dick Vet graduate Dr Bryanna Mariel Andrews explores the role of inclusion of vets and vet students with disabilities in the profession. People with disabilities are an important part of the veterinary medicine community and profession. However, only recently have veterinary organisations and businesses begun to officially provide the space and support for them in […]
Exploring student experiences around health and wellbeing
The User Experience Service has collaborated with Student Experience Services on a three month qualitative research project exploring student experiences around health and wellbeing. We wanted to learn how we might prevent the less severe problems students experience from escalating to more complex problems and associated support. So, we focused on learning about the general […]
COVID-19 and gender-based violence in conflict: new challenges and persistent problems, writes Catherine O'Rourke
Peace is not just the absence of war. Many women under lockdown for #COVID19 face violence where they should be safest: in their own homes. Today I appeal for peace in homes around the world. I urge all governments to put women’s safety first as they respond to the pandemic. – Antonio Guterres, April 6, […]
Brave new world: a brief history of a recent buzz term
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ed-decameron/brave-new-world-a-brief-history-of-a-recent-buzz-term/
Liz Stanley The viral character of how some media stories circulate – with a current story picked up by other media sources and multiply repeated with minimal changes or by transferring it into local examples – is well known. Thus Llandudno goats coming down from the hills to roam the town streets fetches up with a media story in Brazil and sheep in one of its cities. And similarly with key terms and ideas which circulate […]
Attending DrupalCon Amsterdam 2014
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/attending-drupalcon-amsterdam-2014/
Bicycles. Canals. Boats. Tulips. Drupal. This year, Amsterdam had a new landmark to identify with. More than 2,300 Drupalistas attended the yearly European conference that gets the Drupal community together for a week to discuss all things Drupal, as well as other cutting edge web technologies and project management methodologies. Among them, a good number […]
Using network visualization to understand the spread of Covid-19, by Tod Van Gunten
Like many infectious diseases, COVID-19 spreads most often through direct social contact. We are most likely to catch the virus through sustained social interaction: because of this, following a ‘15 minute rule,’ contact tracers seek to identify individuals who infected persons have interacted with for a period of 15 minutes or more at a distance […]
Open Learning in Practice
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/macat/openlearninghandbook/sprint3/openlearninginpractice/
This lecture looks at the global context of who produces, designs, shares and researches open educational practices, considering who they are for and who uses them. It will help you to prepare for the Week 10 Learning Fair. The aims of this course can be seen to be directly in line with those often […]
R you ready for R?
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/research-bow/r-you-ready-for-r/
This blog post is a guide for using R for reproducible data processing and analysis. Today we will work with this totally legitimate longitudinal dataset (see Disclaimer below). The dataset includes a measure of enjoyment for my previous pun blog post, a very reliable questionnaire “Rand_Q”, enjoyment of puns, whilst controlling for demographic variables of […]
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