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DNACPRs and advance care planning in the COVID19 pandemic: key lessons
By Catriona McMillan and Victoria Sobolewska Patient-doctor discussions surrounding do not attempt cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) orders amidst the COVID-19 pandemic have caused widespread, understandable panic in the UK, set against a backdrop of proportionately higher elderly deaths, discussions surrounding resource allocation (particularly with reference to ventilators), and emerging stories of rising care home deaths. Here, we highlight how current […]
Finding and Sharing New Frames for Enhancement Discourses?
By Shawn HarmonFrames are associations that ‘cluster around a single image or phrase, directing the reader into certain familiar channels of cognition’ (Huxford, 2000). Often these frames are less ‘in’ the text, and more projected ‘onto’ the text by the reader on the basis of cues or invitations. Framing is often a critical component of […]
What does it mean to be critical in higher education?
Andrew Drybrough* Back in 2012, while a ‘Visiting Professor’ in a state university in South Korea, I was asked if I was interested in teaching a liberal arts course to a class of undergraduate students on ‘Global Citizenship’. This was a one-semester course through English medium instruction that I ended up designing and teaching on […]
Digital Assets as Transactional Power
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/private-law/2022/01/20/digital-assets-as-transactional-power/
By David Fox, Professor of Common Law, University of Edinburgh If the law is to recognise digital assets as property for private law purposes, then it would benefit from analysing them as composite things. The asset is more than mere data. It is a set of transactional functionalities. The most important of these is the […]
Teacherbot Dev-Log #3: The End of the Beginning
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teacherbot/2017/08/22/teacherbot-dev-log-3-the-end-of-the-beginning/
It’s been three weeks and I know you’ve all been hanging on the edge of your seats to find out how this tale of updating, reworking and, to be humble, triumph in the face of adversity, finally ends. Since the last blog I’ve been focused on two things above all else: the functionality of the […]
Thinking More Creatively
Since I wrote my last blog post, I have attended workshops that are part of the Geosciences Outreach and Engagement course about active learning, and using Linkedin Learning and Adobe Spark. Outside of the course, I have also participated in a webinar organised by National Museums of Scotland. This explored how the museum’s collections are […]
Regenerating salivary glands after injury due to radiotherapy for cancer
Our research will help us to better understand how radiotherapy causes damage to the body and this may allow us to develop new treatments to heal radiation injury. In humans with cancer, radiotherapy is used to kill cancerous cells. This treatment uses ionizing radiation which is aimed directly at the cancer however, it can also […]
Summative Submission
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2206465_drawn-from-the-city-2021-2022sem1/2021/12/06/summative-submission/
Working With the Found Object: Photo: Dimitri Otis/Getty My chosen objects were mugs as they’re a pretty simple design yet so effective that it’s been used for probably as long as humans, or pre-humans, have been picking up water. My aim was to experiment with this timeless design and make objects that either look like, […]
Advances and challenges in teaching linguistics at university, LAGB 2022
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/itamar/lagb2022/
A special themed session at the annual meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Ulster University, 14 September 2022. Discussion | Program | Description | Registration | Organizers Discussion Here are some of the resources that were mentioned in the discussion or are otherwise noteworthy: Eric Mazur, Confessions of a converted lecturer […]
Kirsty: how I became a green energy lawyer
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sharing-things-blog/2021/10/26/kirsty-how-i-became-a-green-energy-lawyer/
As representing environmental interests becomes increasingly attractive to graduating law students, Kirsty Nurse (Law 2007) tells us about her own career journey that has led her to specialising in green issues and renewable energy. Current treasured object: my cosy slippers (don’t know what I will do when we are back in the office) Song of […]
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