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KB History - Chapter 2: The first wave of construction, 1920–1932
The expansion of The King’s Buildings campus in the 1920s and early 1930s took place against a general unease, both in educational institutions and the country as a whole. The Great War and its dislocations were still resonating throughout the population, and new political alliances and challenges were shaping Europe in unpredictable ways. The rise […]
KB History - Chapter 3: Consolidation, a new war and a fight for survival
The end of the first phase: King’s Buildings Union After the opening of Geology’s Grant Building, it would be some time before there were any other major academic building developments on the campus. The University Union had, however, been lobbying for a permanent building there since 1929, having spent seven years in the shared wooden […]
A new one-day conference for UX professionals working in Higher Education
On Tuesday 17 September 2024 people from educational institutions across the UK will gather in Manchester for a day of talks, workshops and networking on the theme of challenges and opportunities of UX in Education. Tickets are now on sale if you would like to join us. I’ve co-chaired a UX Community of Practice as […]
PhD Projects and PhD researchers
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/scphrp/research/phd-projects/
Zorana Alimpic Zorana is a human rights researcher based in South Africa though she originally hails from Serbia having grown up in Canada. She holds a B.S.W (Ryerson University) and M.S.W (York University) from Canada where she worked with refugee and migrant communities as well as a Research Associate for York University. After completing her […]
Details August 2024
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/learn/details-august-2024/
August 2024 – 3900.98 Release Improved navigation between students in Flexible Grading Hide unenrolled students from the gradebook Status information removed from the gradebook download file Anonymous student responses for Forms Improvements to creating assignments Multiple rules for release conditions Ability to ‘Follow’ Discussions for Enhanced Engagement Assessment Send a message to a group from […]
Knowledge Exchange
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/davereay/knowledge-exchange/
Dave Reay – Knowledge Transfer and Outreach (no longer updated) Conference Talks Nitrogen and Climate Change. Planetary health Conference, Edinburgh (May 2018) Climate change Mitigation and Resilience. Network Rail Leaders Conference, Keynote, Coventry (March 2018) Climate science: state-of-the-art Carbon Trust Scotland Public Sector Conference, Keynote, Glasgow Caledonian University (June 2017) Climate-smart agriculture Chinese Academy of […]
2021 Abstracts
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/astromoves/2021/07/02/2021-abstracts/
This blog post is an updated list of my presentation titles and abstracts that have been accepted for conferences or for some other public presentation, with links to recordings if they exist. 2021 has already been busy albeit virtual. Colloquium Talk at West Virginia University https://physics.wvu.edu/news-and-events/colloquium/jarita-holbrook Jarita Holbrook: The Worlds of Cultural Astronomy In […]
Cornel West Lecture 4: History Adagio
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gifford-lectures/2024/05/14/cornel-west-lecture-4-history-adagio/
Lecture Four took place on Monday 13th May at the Informatics Forum, and was chaired by Professor Lesley McAra, Assistant Principal (Community Relations) and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Below is a lecture summary, followed by a response by PhD student in English Literature Christopher Chan. You can watch the […]
Edinburgh symposium shows anthropology can help us understand the social dynamics of COVID-19, writes Ritti Soncco
On 27 April 2020, the Students of Medical Anthropology (SoMA), a student-body subgroup of the Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology (EdCMA), held their annual Symposium virtually. This year’s symposium was entitled ‘Uncertain Futures, Uncanny Present(s)” and was divided into two sections: what the covid-19 pandemic reveals and what the covid-19 obfuscates. The call for papers […]
The many masks of a lockdown, by Krithika Srinivasan
The ways in which a ‘non-discriminatory’ virus can very quickly evolve into a disease of the poor Communicable diseases, we know, affect socio-economically disadvantaged communities disproportionately. But how do these inequalities emerge? We now have a live example in COVID-19. Until recently, the virus has been non-selective in whom it affects: it could be people […]
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