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Recently, I’ve been working on the mobility of queens in medieval Europe, with a focus on the eleventh century. As I thought through the issues, I decided a quantitative angle might be valuable. To that end, I’ve made a list of 137 marriages through which a woman become a queen of a “different country”, 900-1150, […]
Edit Post Last week was a BIG week for me, as I was invited to give evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice Committee as they were completing a short inquiry looking at Scotland’s current suicide prevention strategy ‘Creating Hope Together‘. I was really nervous about giving evidence as I’ve never […]
Changing the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.
One of my neighbour Marie’s earliest memoires of the Moss is from the 1970s. When she met her husband, John, he lived on Blackthorne Avenue to the northwest of the site. As they both worked in Glasgow, they would get the train together from Lenzie Station. Marie remembers running late one morning and the two […]
Having completed my PhD via an on-line final defence (due to Covid-19), I have been asked by various colleagues to share my experience in order to help anyone preparing for a similar examination. So, here is a quick summary of my experience. This summary is written with some internal references pertaining to the University of […]
Supervisors: Dr Mark Naylor, Prof Hugh Sinclair, Dr Stella Pytharouli, Calum Cuthill Summary You will improve and test our prototype arduino based low-cost seismic logger which is designed for meduim-term deployments, with telemetry, in harsh environments such as debris flow sites. Project background Seismology can be used to monitor the initiation and evolution of various […]