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Introduction to Researchers’ Journeys Blog Series | Dr Cecile Menard
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/iad4researchers/2023/05/24/researchers-journeys-blog-series-dr-cecile-menard/
#redefineuniversity or why one dictionary definition is symptomatic of the invisibilisation of researchers This post is the first in a series that explores what it means to be a career researcher. Each post is written by one long-term researcher employed at the University of Edinburgh. In this introduction to the series, Dr Cecile Menard reflects […]
Climate vampires and the inspiration dilemma
Struggling to balance or integrate creative flow with academic rigour will probably continue to be the #1 challenge to tackle during this project. Some time ago, I began to scout for some good literature to inform the creation of my board game on several layers: reflecting main themes in game mechanics forest ecology/restoration and climate […]
Teaching climate through connection with nature, community and across disciplines
In this extra post, Lucy Patterson explains how making connections in teaching with nature, community and between disciplines through the lens of climate crisis can offer new learning and teaching opportunities for students in today’s complex and dynamic world. Lucy is the University’s Climate and Sustainability Curriculum Coordinator. As the University’s ‘Skills for Success Framework’ […]
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Utopia is a ‘no-space’ for contemplation, innovation and collaboration. Jennifer Williams describes how Utopia was born: “The Utopia Project began as the flicker of an idea back in 2017. I had often dreamed of running a residency centre for artists and writers. An opportunity to do so arose as I took on the role of […]
Lecture 4: The Protestant International: Pietism, Premillennialism, and Pentecostalism
After a half-rainy, half-sunny venture to St Andrews for the weekend, Professor Hempton returned to deliver his fourth lecture of the series. Below is a short summary, followed by a reflection from a PhD Candidate in Christian-Muslim relations Nathan Dever, and the lecture video. The summary follows the structure of Professor Hempton’s lecture and is split […]
COVID-19 reveals the politics of xenophobia in real-time, writes Janet E Perkins
Pseudonyms have been used for all people and places in order to protect the identity and anonymity of individuals “Khulna’s Very Own Foreigner” Four days turned my field site, and my place in it, upside down. It was early March 2020 and I had spent the previous four months establishing myself in Khulna, Bangladesh, to […]
The 66th Language Lunch
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/languagelunch/2019/02/14/the-66th-language-lunch/
The 66th Language Lunch Date: 2019-02-14 Location: G.07 Informatics Forum A Quantitative Analysis of Political Change on Eighteenth-Century Scots Sarah van Eyndhoven; S1890120@sms.ed.ac.uk The Union of the Parliaments between Scotland and England in 1707 seemed to signal the final blow for the Scots language (Murison, 1979), opening the doors for political and linguistic assimilation. Yet […]
Assumptions: open badges
Underpinning the Open Badges project is the basic premise of offering learners recognition for skills and achievements that they glean from online courses, learning networks and the like. I like the digital badges concept and I believe the positives outweigh the negatives. Yet, there are assumptions that are made about digital badge courses and […]
RSE Gifford Discussion Forum
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gifford-lectures/2017/05/11/rse-gifford-discussion-forum/
Last night Professor Jeffrey Stout was joined by Professor John Bowlin (Robert L. Stuart Professor of Philosophy and Christian Ethics, Princeton Theological Seminary), Professor G. Scott Davis (Lewis T. Booker Professor in Religion and Ethics, University of Richmond), and Professor Cornel West (Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard University) to further discuss his […]
Looking for a Range Property
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gifford-lectures/2015/01/29/looking-for-a-range-property/
What are the basic features of the cluster of principles that we would associate with human equality? How do we move from the general to the particular to answer the fundamental question: if the presence of a ‘continuous’ equality amongst humans is to be accepted, or even a ‘distinctive’ equality which would raise us to […]
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