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The 66th Language Lunch
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/languagelunch/2019/02/14/the-66th-language-lunch/
The 66th Language Lunch Date: 2019-02-14 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum A Quantitative Analysis of Political Change on Eighteenth-Century Scots Sarah van Eyndhoven; S1890120@sms.ed.ac.uk The Union of the Parliaments between Scotland and England in 1707 seemed to signal the final blow for the Scots language (Murison, 1979), opening the doors for political and linguistic assimilation. Yet […]
Assumptions: open badges
Underpinning the Open Badges project is the basic premise of offering learners recognition for skills and achievements that they glean from online courses, learning networks and the like. I like the digital badges concept and I believe the positives outweigh the negatives. Yet, there are assumptions that are made about digital badge courses and […]
RSE Gifford Discussion Forum
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gifford-lectures/2017/05/11/rse-gifford-discussion-forum/
Last night Professor Jeffrey Stout was joined by Professor John Bowlin (Robert L. Stuart Professor of Philosophy and Christian Ethics, Princeton Theological Seminary), Professor G. Scott Davis (Lewis T. Booker Professor in Religion and Ethics, University of Richmond), and Professor Cornel West (Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University) to further discuss his […]
Looking for a Range Property
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gifford-lectures/2015/01/29/looking-for-a-range-property/
What are the basic features of the cluster of principles that we would associate with human equality? How do we move from the general to the particular to answer the fundamental question: if the presence of a ‘continuous’ equality amongst humans is to be accepted, or even a ‘distinctive’ equality which would raise us to […]
Coffee and cake in Edinburgh
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/students-at-sps/coffee-and-cake-in-edinburgh/
It’s a well-known fact that many of us can’t start our day without a morning cup of coffee, requiring the caffeine to kick start the day, or to act as a pick-me-up after hours of studying. In fact, according to the British Coffee Association, more than two billion cups of coffee are drunk worldwide every day, with around 95 million of these […]
Meet the Partner Organisations
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ijcc/2019/06/meet-the-partner-organisations/
Improving Justice in Child Contact (IJCC) is a partnership project across 5 European countries (8 organisations) with the goal of improving children’s rights to participate in decisions that affect them. Bulgaria The Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation (BGRF) was founded in 1998 to promote social equality and women’s human rights. BGRF has a range of expertise […]
Institutional values and institutional behaviours: an open letter to Alison Johns (CEO of Advance HE)
Hello Alison, A week ago today I wrote to you on Twitter but I didn’t get a reply. The reason I was writing was that Advance HE had run an event earlier that day about the preparedness of higher education for the fourth industrial revolution with the title and associated hashtag #BraveNewWorld. I wasn’t at […]
Digital sparseness and digital innovation in South Africa
Much of what I’m writing about here I owe to the insights and research of my colleagues Alex Wafer, Kirstin Lardy, Delani Mathevula and Motswaedi. In fact a lot of it comes from a recent talk by Alex. We know the digital divide very well. Much of economic and social life is now taking place […]
How my career in the Space sector took off
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/careersinformed/how-my-career-in-the-space-sector-took-off/
We’re delighted to share a guest blog post from University of Edinburgh, Geography alumnus, Becky Morris. Becky is the Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at Skyrora… read on to check out Becky’s path from university into the Space industry. My journey into the Space sector I could not have predicted that I would have ended up […]
Getting in and getting on in architecture
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/careersinformed/getting-in-and-getting-on-in-architecture/
We are delighted to feature this guest post from Graham Currie, Director at ISA Architecture & Design Ltd, reflecting on his career so far. My name’s Graham and I’m a Director at ISA Architecture & Design Ltd in Edinburgh. We’re a 25 strong architecture and interiors practice that works UK wide on a variety of […]
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