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.

This text was commissioned by composer Matthew Whiteside to accompany Beneath the Surface – an audiovisual work inspired by his love of scuba diving and the experience of being underwater. Using footage gathered from dives around the world, the film brings music into dialogue with moving image and text to reflect on the beauty, stillness […]

It’s not just trowels and trenches in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh … Hello! My name is Dr Alice Wolff and I am the IASH-HCA Postdoctoral Fellow for the 2025-2026 academic year. My focus within archaeology is archaeobotany, the study of plant remains in archaeological contexts. In April 2026, I ran a workshop for […]

What was life like for women who studied at the Edinburgh Medical School in the early twentieth century? Archival material provides insight into the challenges many medical women faced. By Juliet Gartside Forty women matriculated at the University of Edinburgh between 1869 and 1873, including the renowned Edinburgh Seven, making them the first women to […]

In this extra post, Avita Rath builds on existing scholarship on teacher noticing and noticing in health professions education, while extending the discussion to clinical educator practice in dental education and resource-constrained teaching contexts. The post speaks broadly to learning and teaching, clinical education, professional identity formation, feedback, and staff development in teaching practice. Avita […]

In After Virtue, MacIntyre distinguishes between the internal and external goods of a practice. Internal goods are intrinsic to a specific practice: they can only be achieved by participating in it according to its standards (for example, among the goods of chess are the development of a certain tactical awareness and a particular strategic imagination). […]