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The power of neurodiversity in tackling climate change

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sustainability/2024/the-power-of-neurodiversity/

It’s Neurodiversity Celebration Week! I’m Eve Redhead, Communications Coordinator at the University of Edinburgh’s Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability. As we come together to celebrate the unique strengths and perspectives of neurodivergent individuals, I wanted to explore the profound impact neurodiversity can have on climate action.  What is neurodiversity? Neurodiversity describes the idea that […]


UK Influential Online Figures collection introduction

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/digitalislameurope/research-findings/archiving/about-the-collections-2/uk-influential-online-figures-collection-introduction/

Gary R Bunt (UK Team and Website data analysis) Anna Grasso (UK Team and Website data analysis) This collection is part of the Digital Islam Across Europe project’s archive. One of the DigitIslam project outputs focuses on website data and collection analysis. The objective is to identify, catalogue and analyse Muslim organisations’ and actors’ websites […]


What makes HCA so special?

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/shca/what-makes-hca-so-special/

Tanvi shares her experience of being an international student, and the supportive community of School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Student life in Edinburgh is colourful and multifaceted, and this is something that the University has continued to provide throughout my time as a student here. My experience at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology […]


UK Shia collection introduction

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/digitalislameurope/research-findings/archiving/about-the-collections-2/uk-shia-collection-introduction/

Gary R Bunt (UK Team and Website data analysis) Anna Grasso (UK Team and Website data analysis) This archive is part of the Digital Islam Across Europe project’s collection. One of the DigitIslam project outputs focuses on website data and collection analysis. The objective is to identify, catalogue and analyse Muslim organisations’ and actors’ websites […]


Events

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/art-translation/events/

21 June 2022: Virtual Launch: Special Issue of Art in Translation on “Parchment, Parchemin, Pergament: 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-Century Authors on the History and Manufacture of Parchment” Join us on the 21st June 2022, at 7pm BST (2pm EST) to celebrate the publication of issue 13.4 “Parchment, Parchemin, Pergament: 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-Century Authors on […]


Details August 22

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/learn/details-august-22/

Advanced calculation for Overall Grade Instructors have varying preferences about how they define the overall grade calculation. Now the Overall Grade supports an advanced calculation. This new calculation gives instructors greater flexibility and supports varied evaluation practices. The instructor may use the ‘Set it up’ option to configure the Overall Grade. Image 1. An instructor may select a […]


Affiliated members

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We are delighted to have started creating connections with health researchers Bule Hore University in Ethiopia. https://www.bhu.edu.et/ Below you will find out more about our newest associate members from Bule Hore! Anteneh Fikrie  Anteneh Fikrie is Assistant Professor of Public Health in the School of Public Health, Institute of Health, Bule Hora University. He has […]


Sex, Gender and Academic Freedom: a guide for university managers

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edinburghafaf/2022/06/21/sex-gender-and-academic-freedom-a-guide-for-university-managers/

by Shereen Benjamin and Neil Thin   It is likely that all staff and students at Edinburgh hope for a social world in which people are not unfairly disadvantaged because of their sex or their transgender identification. If universities are to be spaces for constructive debate on contentious social issues such as sex and gender, […]


Taking an enquiry stance - collaboration and a 'disciplined dialogue' by Duncan McBride

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/learningandleadership/taking-an-enquiry-stance-collaboration-and-a-disciplined-dialogue/

During my Extended Work-Based Project (EWBP) I conducted a case study of what happened when teachers learned to adopt the practice of practitioner enquiry within their classrooms.  Whilst reflecting on the conversations I had with teachers over the course of the study I became increasingly interested in how bias affected teacher judgement and have since […]


The 31st Language Lunch

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/languagelunch/2012/02/10/the-31st-language-lunch/

The 31st Language Lunch Date: 2012-02-10 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum Using Latent Variable Models to Achieve Stochastic and Consistent User Simulation for Dialog Management Aciel,Eshky; informatics; a.eshky@sms.ed.ac.uk Ben,Allison; informatics; b.allison@inf.ed.ac.uk Mark,Steedman; informatics; steedman@inf.ed.ac.uk User simulation is a vital component in training and evaluating statistical dialog systems. However, while the dialog managers they inform have become […]


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