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EAUC Scotland Conference 2015
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sustainability/2015/eauc-scotland-conference-2015/
Communications Facilitator Sarah Ford-Hutchinson reflects on attending her first sustainability conference in tertiary education – EAUC Scotland’s “A Shared Responsibility” conference – hosted by the University of Edinburgh in November 2015. On Tuesday 17th November 2015, around 100 Delegates from tertiary education institutions and sector partners joined the EAUC and 13 Exhibitors from across the […]
Language Education Research as a Transdisciplinary Endeavour
Professor Do Coyle, Chair in Language Education and Classroom Pedagogies Language Education per se is dynamic and open to wide interpretation. Indeed globally, and across generations – citizens, politicians, educators – all have diverse understandings of language and education which are socially and culturally constructed and embedded in life experiences, ideologies and theoretical interpretation. In […]
Engaging & understanding our users: a pilot User Experience Service showcase
This week we ran our first event to showcase the work of the pilot User Experience Service and associated areas like EdGEL and strategy development. At this session I wanted to try a different approach, encouraging dialogue about our work-in-progress, rather than one-way dissemination. Attendance numbers were extremely positive and the engagement of the group […]
Lunch mates: Katie Birt and Kirsty Dundas
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/medstudentlife/2020/02/26/lunch-mates-katie-birt-and-kirsty-dundas/
A regular feature where MBChB students meet a member of staff for lunch. This issue, student Katie Birt meets consultant obstetrician and associate senior tutor, Dr Kirsty Dundas. Katie What were your expectations? Kirsty and I had actually by coincidence been communicating via email recently – I had asked her for advice on where might […]
Households, bubbles and hugging grandparents: caring and lockdown rules during COVID-19, by Jackie Gulland
When the full lockdown to tackle the spread of Coronavirus began in March 2020, mountains of legislation and guidance were published to coerce or encourage people to stay at home. I followed the daily updates closely to try and understand what the rules meant and what the implications might be for families with caring responsibilities. […]
The shock of vulnerability: philosophical contemplations on death and dying during the pandemic, in conversation with Michael Cholbi
You are one of the founding members of the International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying. I was wondering what the main questions in this field are. Death and dying is actually one of the oldest and most pervasive concerns within philosophy. In fact, virtually every philosophical tradition explores how human beings should […]
Structured Pattern - Project 2
project 2 Smith and Nephew Smith and Nephew are a leading portfolio medical company that exists to restore people’s bodies and their self-belief. Their advanced wound management portfolio provides products that meet broad and complex clinical needs which include plasters, ointments, wound dressings and more. While studying some of their products, I came across Zinc oxide paste […]
The ACA is a Lifeline for Native Americans Who Suffer from NCDs
The Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) is scheduled for argument before the United States Supreme Court in November – just one week after the 2020 General Election. With the current balance of the Court, one outcome might be repealing the law. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 29.8 million people would lose their health insurance if […]
Talking about suicide in 2020
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/suicide-in-as-politics/2021/01/26/talking-about-suicide-in-2020/
Blog post written by Hazel Marzetti, Edinburgh-based Research Associate on the Suicide in/as Politics Project. The New Year is a time for reflection. As my work focuses on developing understandings of suicidal distress, in thinking back over 2020, I reflected on the increase in public conversations about mental health, and in particular on two specific conversations about suicide that I noticed during the past year. The first was around […]
Exoticization: Potential Ethnic Inequalities in Internet Entertainment
November 2020, a Khams pa boy named Dingzhen becomes famous for his good look. It starts from a short video of him and the following trend #how handsome can khams pa men be#. (Khams pa is the people living in Kham) At first, people are impressed by Dingzhen’s innocent smile and ‘tameless’ temperament. His fans […]
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