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Today’s Film: Arthur Christmas This 2011 film centres on Santa Claus’ youngest son, Arthur, who works in the letters department at the North Pole. Seen as a failure and a burden, Arthur still holds the magic and wonder of Christmas in his heart as he fights tirelessly to deliver a bicycle to a little girl […]
Burning coal flickers, a newborn baby cries and minuscule critters wriggle across the screen to the melancholic tune of Louise Connell’s Fruit. These images set the scene for Dr. Emily Munro’s documentary Living Proof: A Climate Story (2021), which asks: What fuels life on this planet? From which matter do we grow? And what are the ecological repercussions […]
In 2023, I started work on migrating three Drupal 7 websites over to Drupal 10. All three sites used a custom sub-theme based on Bootstrap 3. Each site had its own purpose, but they needed to look and feel similar. The main reason for the migration was that Drupal 7 was reaching its end-of-life.
In preparation for the retirement of the Virtual Visit platform in October 2025, the team ran a project to understand how prospective students orientate themselves with Edinburgh and the campus. I share key findings and how updating programme profiles with Google Maps content can help with orientation. Dec 2, 2025
If you're anything like me, as the dark days bed in I start to look for treats and sparkles of all kinds to brighten up the winter days and nights. One of my favourite places to explore this time of year are the recipe sections on Wikibooks. Wikibooks is one of the Wikimedia sister projects, and is about collaboratively writing open-content textbooks that anyone (including you) can edit.
The Centre for Research on Environment, Society & Health (CRESH) at the University of Edinburgh are looking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of ‘Environment and Health for a period of 4 years to contribute a UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP) Consortium – SPECTRUM (Shaping Public hEalth poliCies To Reduce ineqUalities and harm) […]