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Changing the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.

Video presentations by our 2025/26 students who completed the Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia – Edinburgh Award. The Edinburgh Award is [...]

Guest blog, Anita Sangha – The Fairness Foundation  Last year, in partnership with the Discovering Liveability project team, The Fairness Foundation brought together a group of experts from public health, economics, sociology, and psychology to discuss the relationship between wealth inequality, suicide and liveability.   Suicide rates in the UK are on the rise. In the year 2023/24, 7,055 deaths caused by […]

What was life like for women who studied at the Edinburgh Medical School in the early twentieth century? Archival material provides insight into the challenges many medical women faced. By Juliet Gartside Forty women matriculated at the University of Edinburgh between 1869 and 1873, including the renowned Edinburgh Seven, making them the first women to […]

A week in Athens with The Play Cafe Project Team  Author: Iffah Humaira Eri Tantawi, University of Edinburgh  Roaming the streets of Athens, under the scorching sun, I was thrilled and excited to be in the city of historical and mythical stories and legends – a smell of a Mediterranean identity, a city rich in […]