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Data: it is everywhere
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/hughpumphrey/2021/12/05/data-it-is-everywhere/
As a scientist, I can’t resist the itch to collect data (see e.g. this previous post). During the pandemic, my mid-life-crisis sports car reached the point where my garage told me that they could get it through the MOT, but they didn’t really advise it. So I had to go car shopping. Mrs. P was […]
Sport and the 2020 United States of America Election
By Grant Jarvie, University of EdinburghLuica Trimbur, New York City University Yuxun, Xu, University of Edinburgh In the 2020 election of the 46th President of the United States of America (US) sport matters, it is an important political force as it was in the 2016 election, so argues Grant Jarvie. The voices and actions of […]
Glasgow 2014 Human Rights Policy: A Synopsis
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sport-matters/2022/04/30/glasgow-2014-human-rights-policy-a-synopsis/
The Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony By Grant Jarvie Glasgow 2014Glasgow 2014 was to become the first Games to adopt a human rights policy. The approach can be captured around four themes, humanity, equality, destiny and sustainability. Introduction In 2013 the organising committee for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games approached the Scottish Human Rights […]
Presenting a future state for prospective student online provision
This week I presented to over 100 colleagues from across the University on our plans for the transformation of online provision for prospective students. This post summarises the key points, or you can review the slides and video of my presentation if you want the full detail. UPDATE (August 2022): The slide deck includes the […]
Learning Sprint 3 | Beyond the Visual: Reflective Analysis
Embodied knowledge, while often denigrated and disavowed within the modern colonial episteme, confirms that Western scientistic validity comprises only one kind of knowing. Manifest through poetics, aesthetics, and other bodily attunements, sensuous knowledges open to alternative modes of relation. […] A sensory, embodied, affective, and imaginative relation to the world opens to a different kind […]
The Beginnings of Commercialism in Sport (Or was it always There?)
By Professor Wray Vamplew University of Edinburgh Sports historians generally accept that ‘modern’ sport and commercial activity were intertwined from the mid nineteenth century, but I would argue that sport had a commercial aspect many centuries before if we accept that any of the following featured. An element of commodification in which someone was willing […]
Scottish Football and Data Analysis
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sport-matters/2022/01/01/scottish-football-and-data-analysis/
By Grant Jarvie Jake Barrett, Ellen Frank Delgado, Neil McGillivray, Mason Robbins, Michael Rovatsos, John Scott, and Paul Widdop.Scottish football is undoubtedly a real pillar of connectivity, both locally and internationally, something that is not always grasped, understood or capitalised upon by the Scottish Government or maximised by individual football clubs and we can and […]
The Making of the Caman “An elegant weapon, graceful to wield” -
Dr Hugh D MacLennan, Academy of Sport, Edinburgh University In the year when the art of making a caman or shinty stick was officially designated “critically endangered” the 2019 Dr Johnnie Cattanach Memorial Lecture at the Highland Folk Museum, focussed on the art and history of making the caman. The caman is, along with the […]
Sail-training and intercultural learning: Voices from the sea
By Yujun Xu University of Edinburgh • Research suggests that sail-training at sea provides an alternative space for intercultural learning and that the confinement of the ship provides for an opportunity for transformative cultural experiences- but is this the case ? Enabling generation z to develop intercultural competences and become international citizens with obligations to others […]
‘Avalon’
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/neilmulholland/2010/05/28/avalon/
‘Avalon’ The Embassy, Roxy Art House, 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU 19.06.10 – 11.07.10 The relentless association, from the Renaissance onwards, of the Middle Ages with the ‘hypereconomy’ of the gift, with whatever exceeds calculation or rationality, for good or for ill, has made the Middle Ages a marker of fantasy and excess (…), […]
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