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As part of the Legal Biography project, now examining academics, Maks Del Mar will speak on the late Sir Neil MacCormick of Edinburgh. The event will take place in the Moot Court Room 7th Floor, Cheng Kin Ku Building, LSELondon, WC2A 3LJ Sir Neil MacCormick was Regius Professor of Law at the University of Edinburgh […]
We’re told it’s good to stretch yourself from time to time, to try something new. Due to an insightful suggestion from my colleague, Dr Neill Martin, I have found myself doing just that over the past year. The Inchcolm Antiphoner is a rare musical manuscript housed by University of Edinburgh, several fragments of it are […]
With the daily news from colleagues in the US, the rhetoric in UK politics, and decreasing budgets and increasing bureaucracy at home, it can feel like conversations become more cautious and civility is under pressure. At the same time, we still talk about fairness, community, and belonging. How can those two things go together? The […]
About Edinburgh For anyone needing a visual, here is a movie (format .mov; 16Mb) showing the city of Edinburgh from the top of Blackford Hill. The latter is one of Edinburgh’s 7 extinct volcanos which is just 5 minutes walk from the University’s science campus, Kings Buildings, on the south side of the city of […]
With applications invited for the August 2026 ECAT-i (Edinburgh Clinical Academic Track – inclusive) intake, Antonia Churchhouse talks about her experience of taking part in the programme. Antonia applied to the University of Edinburgh’s ECAT programme in her first year as a Gastroenterology Registrar. I was really keen to do a lab-based PhD, learning core techniques that […]
In May 2025 the Suicide Cultures project hosted a 2 day symposium focused on the sociology of suicide. This is a topic that is central to the project, given our own aims to grow sociological research on suicide, as well as to showcase and share how sociological expertise and research can transform how suicide is […]
