Today is the first day of this year’s wonderfully long Christmas holiday, so I should be feeling relaxed and jovial. But I have had to return my car to the garage after some very expensive repairs have failed to do the job. So I am feeling stressed as I return to Lenzie by train, just […]

By Alysia Jimenez, MSc Food Security Food waste is an awfully ‘wicked’ problem Throughout my studies as a MSc Food Security student, I have come to see how food security is not a single-issue problem but a complex and widely interconnected challenge. The Environmental Governance and Policy course has been especially important in shaping this perspective. This course has encouraged me […]

Contributing to the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines, I enjoyed working with talented editors and UX professionals to shape 21 guidelines in the User Experience Design category. In this post, I spotlight selected guidelines, reflecting on how they were written, and how they encapsulate the ethos of the principles behind them. Dec 16, 2025

In this post, Callum Paterson, the Design Lead on the Student Voice Project in Registry Services, presents a reflective round-up of the 16 blog posts from the ‘Student Voice in Practice’ series (May-June 2025), and offers five thing he took away from the series. Callum was previously part of the Student Voice team at Edinburgh […]

The brain integrates information not only from the five external senses – hearing, smell, taste, touch, and vision – but also from the three internal senses: interoception, proprioception, and the vestibular sense. (See our blog for the crossmodal correspondences between the senses, Vision, haptic touch, and hearing, Multisensory processing, and Food for thought: taste, smell […]

Today’s Film: Tokyo Godfathers One Christmas Eve, three homeless people—middle-aged alcoholic Gin, transgender woman Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki—discover an abandoned newborn while searching through the garbage for presents, along with a note asking whoever finds the baby to take good care of her and a key leading to a bag with clues to the parents’ identity. […]