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.

In this extra post, Marcello Crolla and Stuart Nicol from Educational Design and Engagement, Information Services, describe a recent project to scope students’ experience and needs in accessing and finding training content across the University. The outcomes of their student focus group showed the importance of eliciting student feedback in designing a student training platform, […]

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 […]

February 2021 brought the coldest weather (and best ski season) for 10 years to the highlands of Scotland. Much of this was due to Storm Darcy (the Beast from the East II) a low pressure weather system of cold air pushed from Russia and Eastern Europe. The geo narrative i explore in Thawsonification is how […]

Working in Trinidad and Tobago's Emergency Department during Carnival season, Arrianna Peters found herself at the sharpest possible intersection of joy and suffering – and began to ask what it costs to keep caring.

In Part 2 of her blog, Phd student Ita takes us a little further afield in search of green spaces in Edinburgh. Occasionally, you might have more free time to spare, feel slightly more adventurous, or simply want to ‘escape’ your student life for a while. The following five ‘green spaces’ offer a good and […]