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Lecture 1: Towards a Theory of Transnational Religious Change
This evening commenced the first of our 2021 Gifford Lecture Series. Professor David Hempton from Harvard Divinity School opened our lecture recollecting fond memories of Edinburgh- namely beating us in a hockey game whilst studying for his PhD in St Andrews. What follows here is a summary of this first lecture, the video recording for […]
Lecture One: Religion since Cicero
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gifford-lectures/2017/05/01/lecture-one-religion-since-cicero/
Professor Jeffrey Stout covered a lot of ground in his first lecture. This initial post consists of a longer summary than will appear in future posts. The video of Stout’s lecture is embedded below for those who were unable to attend in person, or for those who’d like to listen to it again. An audio […]
Sport, Covid Recovery and Building Back Better : Some Observations
By Grant Jarvie University of Edinburgh and Toronto The COVID-19 pandemic has painfully confirmed what experts have warned against since the 2009 H1N1 and 2014-2016 Ebola pandemics: the world has been gravely under-prepared for large outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases. This small contribution aims to add value to that which will be returned by individual […]
Guru Rewben Mashangva: Marley, Dylan and Folk Music
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gurusandmedia/2022/01/28/guru-rewben-mashangva-marley-dylan-and-folk-music-2/
In the depths of the pandemic, I listened to guru Mashangva’s music. It reminded me of home, the pounding of village life, and the distinct earthy, sonic landscape of Northeast India. I could sense the texture and the languid flow of languages, the sometimes busy and quietude of everyday life, the hilly terrain and rain-soaked […]
On arts-based methods
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/suicide-cultures/2019/02/25/on-arts-based-methods/
Blog by Sarah Jeavons Wright, originally posted in February 2019 during her time as Research Fellow on the Wellcome Trust/University of Edinburgh ISSF funded pilot project. ‘It has become increasingly clear since the latter half of the 20th century that knowledge or understanding is not always reducible to language… Thus not only does knowledge come […]
Automation in the Global South, is it as bad as it seems?
The London School of Economics have recently produced an article titled, ‘Is Automation Stealing Manufacturing Jobs, Evidence from South Africa’s Apparel Industry’ (Hauge and Parschau, 2020), which questions the prediction that automation will lead to high levels of redundancies in the global south. Jostein Hauge and Christian Parschau in their critical review argue that redundancies […]
Kazakhstan’s Turmoil: Socio-economic grievances and political power struggle
Dr Aliya Tskhay Research Fellow, University of St Andrews What happened? The beginning of 2022 in Kazakhstan will forever remain in its history and people’s memory, as a week of protests, violence and destruction erupted in the country. On January 2 a peaceful protest against the increase of prices for the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) […]
Engaging the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Dr. Jim Hoare* The election of Joe Biden as US president has once again brought the question of engaging with the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – North Korea) to the fore. It is doubtful, of course, that the DPRK will be very high on Biden’s list of urgent tasks but sooner or later […]
Reflection upon delivery
Deciding the date, time and length of the webinar After the last meeting with Neil on 16/03/2021, we agreed that the original length of the webinar was a little ridiculous. I originally thought that two sets of four-hour sessions were a reasonable amount. This mostly came from my overestimation of how much time each topic […]
Week 6-7: Considering learner diversity in perceptions and experiences of studying online
In this second HEA-related post, I would like to turn to the issue of learner diversity and discuss this with specific reference to the different ways in which online students perceive being ‘at’ university. This is an area worthy of consideration because the more awareness course designers and tutors have of these differing perceptions and […]
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