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PhD ramblings: Sep '23 - Feb '24
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/jackandrewsmith/2024/03/09/phd-ramblings-sep-23-feb-24/
PhD ramblings Part one: Sep ’21 – Feb ’24 Cool people leave school at 27 years’ old “131! Kara! Kara?! 131?!” is my soundtrack as I begin writing this reflection on the first five months of my PhD. Kara ordered a flat white from a café in London Stansted Airport and has forgotten about it, […]
Data: A new direction – but which direction? A commentary on the UK Government’s public consultation on reforms to the data protection regime - by Edward Dove
On 10 September 2021, the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) published proposed reforms to the UK’s data protection regime – currently embodied in the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and Data Protection Act 2018 – in a 146-page document entitled, Data: A new direction. In it, the Government opines that “data is now one of the most important resources […]
Gender equity, audits and the Olympic Games
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sport-matters/2015/12/11/gender-audits-olympic-games/
All three parts have been produced as a result of systematic auditing of the Olympic Games. The research team for the Gender Audits of the London (2012) and Sochi (2014) Olympic Games was: Professor Peter Donnelly, University of Toronto, CANADA Professor Michele Donnelly, Kent State University, USA Dr Mark Norman, University of Toronto, CANADA Professor […]
PG Colloqium Archive
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/pgrmath/pg-colloquium/pg-colloqium-archive/
Past Colloquia Academic Year 2022/2023 Semester 2 16/06/2023 Nina Fischer (School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh) Time series emulation of carbon cycle model simulations Simulators, complex physical models implemented in computer code, are a fundamental tool to assess climate change and terrestrial carbon dynamics. Coupled with observational data from satellites, models can infer unobserved ecosystem […]
Open eTextbooks for Access to Music Education Project Final Report
This is the final report of the Open eTextbooks for Access to Music Education Project. Introduction Open eTextbooks for Access to Music Education was a Student Experience Grant funded research and development project that ran from February to July 2021. The project was managed by the OER Service based in Learning, Teaching and Web Services, […]
Lecture 4- George Eliot: Heroes Without Faith
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/gifford-lectures/2022/05/10/lecture-4-george-eliot-heroes-without-faith/
Professor Neiman started her lecture with the question- ‘was she beautiful or not beautiful?’ Henry James commented that she was hideous but he was ‘literally in love with this great horse-faced bluestocking.’ Was this just a preoccupation of the male gaze? Her voice and eyes were described as beautiful ‘positive light’, as if Eliot had […]
The NC500 - The good, the bad and the ugly - FINALE
The one you’ve all been waiting for…..right? Let’s answer those questions from the last NC500 post: What did we wake up to? Were our bikes still there against the outside wall? Were we in any condition to cycle ….? And let’s start where we left off from …… 2 caterpillars seeking shelter from the […]
School of GeoSciences File Storage
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/mhagdorn/2020/08/04/school-of-geosciences-file-storage/
Providing secure, reliable, performant file storage is one of the fundamental services an IT team provides. This post describes in detail how the new CephFS based storage at the School of GeoSciences works. All our Linux machines, servers, compute boxes and desktops are running Scientific Linux and are managed using LCFG. We also use LCFG […]
How do we care about care homes, asks Niamh Woodier
Lloyd Rees, when discussing Australian modern art, argued that ‘the universal element in art, I feel, has often come from an intense localism’ (Rees in Butler & Donaldson 2015, 142). This quote has stayed with me since my Art History degree: Lloyd Rees was originally referring to the conflict between indigenous and Western symbolic vocabularies […]
The future of fashion: an interview with Pauline Op de Beeck
Edinburgh Alumna Pauline Op de Beeck was recognised as one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 in Retail and Ecommerce for her work in driving the fashion industry to be more sustainable. We chatted to her about her top tips on how you can influence the industry, her favourite material innovation and what she thinks the future of fashion […]
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