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Undergraduate entrepreneurship – a Hiccup!?
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/collegescienceengineering/2024/04/11/undergraduate-entrepreneurship-a-hiccup/
To explore the experiences of undergraduate students who are engaging in entrepreneurship alongside their studies, we spoke to two School of GeoSciences final year students who have been involved in the development of a sustainable business idea. Can you tell us about yourselves? Hello! Maria Montull and I (Heather Young) are two co-founders at Hiccup, […]
The ‘SLICC’: what is it, and how has it helped me?
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/postgradlife/the-slicc-what-is-it-and-how-has-it-helped-me/
By Georgie Willoughby, Master of Public Health studentIf like me a year ago, you have no idea what a ‘SLICC’ is, then don’t worry, this blog will hopefully give you an insight into what it is and how it’s formed a fundamental part of my final year at university. For some context, I’m in my […]
Don’t F*ck the Ocean, Do It with Yourself
Don’t F*ck the Ocean, Do It With Yourself What is a dildo’s role in the doing of gender? How can we use such insights to inform our understanding of gender-environment relations? In 2017, the ‘Don’t F*ck the Ocean, Do It with Yourself’ campaign collected, liquified and moulded salvaged marine plastic debris (MPD) into a […]
You can’t be what you can’t see.
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/dlam/2019/01/24/you-cant-be-what-you-cant-see/
Creating new role models on Wikipedia to encourage the next generation of #ImmodestWomen By Siobhan O’Connor, Dr. Alice White, Dr. Sara Thomas and Ewan McAndrew. Wikipedia, the free, online, multilingual encyclopaedia is building the largest open knowledge resource in human history. Now aged eighteen years old, its English language version receives over 500 million views […]
Sleep and Depression: A Q&A with Daniel Smith
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/depressiondetectives/2021/06/01/sleep-and-depression-a-qa-with-daniel-smith/
As part of Depression Detectives, we’re holding weekly Q&As with scientists and experts who work on depression or related topics. Our Q&A last week was with Daniel Smith, a psychiatrist from the University of Edinburgh who is part of a sleep research project called SCRAMS (Sleep, circadian rhythms and mental health in schools). We were […]
Service Design in Government 2021: Conference themes and highlights
Service Design in Government (SD in Gov) is a two-day annual conference bringing together service design experts, practitioners and enthusiasts to share their work and thinking. In the UX and Digital Consultancy team, we have applied service design principles (in projects like Learn Foundations), and recognise its value in making the University’s digital services […]
Football and the 1914 Xmas Day Truce
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sport-matters/2017/12/19/football-1914-xmas-day-truce/
By Mason Robbins University of Edinburgh How does 1914 Christmas Day Truce Affect Modern Peace-Building Initiatives? On a cold, windy day in the middle of the countryside, two groups with very different backgrounds and beliefs lined up next to each other. Unnoticed but by a few in the outside world, these men shared a common […]
Your attendance has in general been poor
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/aburford/2016/11/20/your-attendance-has-in-general-been-poor/
The GIF above is a pretty accurate metaphor for how I’ve felt for the last two weeks. One week of no study was all it took for me to fall behind. And so, week 9 proved an opportune time to participate in the weekly ‘Larcing’ about with your data activity. Tasked with generating at least three reports (and […]
Returning to The Classroom: CAS Summer School
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/f-2-h/2019/09/12/returning-to-the-classroom-cas-summer-school/
If you are anything like me, then the start of a new school year was extremely exciting; new stationery which defined the ‘new you’ and all of that personal (and physical) growth you had achieved over the summer, a new wardrobe with your own take on the prescribed uniform, and new classes and teachers. New. […]
Lego Main Library
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/dlam/2021/04/28/lego-main-library/
I’m currently building Lego versions of the University of Edinburgh’s Main Library to raise money for the charity Sight Scotland who support people with sight loss and blindness. 360° rotating animation of my 500-piece Lego model. Main Library I recently completed a large microscale version of the University of Edinburgh’s Main Library with over 500 pieces. […]
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