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Our recent Elsie Stephenson Memorial Lecture was a great success, bringing together colleagues, students, researchers and practitioners to reflect on the enduring legacy of Elsie Stephenson and the future of nursing research. This year’s lecture was delivered by Professor Lynn Calman, who explored the ongoing challenges facing clinical practitioners seeking to engage meaningfully with research […]
It remains remarkable to me that the ellipted quotation from Bourdieu and Passeron – ‘Academic language is … no one’s mother tongue’ – has taken on the status of a truism. It is, after all, an elegant and appealing formulation, expressing something many people can readily recognise. Even native speakers of English have had to […]
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.
We are nearing a month of the Opening the Well website being live, and the number of transcribers on the platform keeps increasing which is so excellent to see – thank you to everyone who is taking part and has told others about it. There are also many folk interested in gaining transcriptions of Gaelic […]
AI development keeps evolving as do the ways people seek to use AI. Traditional software development runs the risk of trying to perfect AI features people won’t use. Revisiting our previous AI research helped me tease out new opportunity spaces for AI features to help with content design tasks. May 29, 2026
It is never too late to follow your dreams! Meet one of our newest students — Kadriye Arberk, who is about to start an exciting new chapter in her life studying BA Childhood Practice at the Moray House School of Education and Sport. We could not be more proud to welcome her […]