A walk with Elaine Rainey (Scottish Badgers), Glen Cousquer (University of Edinburgh) and others at Boghall Burn by the University’s Easter Bush Campus, by the Pentlands. We are working towards a paper on ‘Embracing the 30×30 biodiversity challenge on veterinary campuses’. We encounter various barriers this morning. The entrance to the Vet School is locked, […]

Since the end of 2024, we’ve held team sessions to experiment with using GenAI to edit content. We’ve found it to be unreliable and more time-consuming than manually editing content, so we’re not going to use it to help with degree finder editing in the near future. May 9, 2025

The CAHSS Cultural Heritage Research Theme supports research collaborations across all the schools of arts, humanities and social sciences at the University of Edinburgh, mobilising expertise across disciplines to produce new insights and address major societal challenges. As the Cultural Heritage portion of the theme, we work with creative industries, museums and galleries, heritage and conservation […]

Turning the Tide on Time—Keep Calm and Keep Swimming Picture yourself floating down a broad, slow‑moving river. In the distance, you can hear a waterfall roaring —yep, that’s death. Let the current carry you, and You get closer and closer to the drop (ordinary aging). Start a casual dog‑paddle and you barely hold your place. […]

We’re delighted to welcome Dr Ina Linge to Edinburgh as EEHN-IASH Visiting Fellow for May and June 2025. Ina is Senior Lecturer in German in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies at the University of Exeter, where she is co-director of the Sexual Knowledge Unit, steering group member of the Heritage@Exeter network, and […]

CMALT stands for Certified Membership of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). It’s a portfolio-based professional accreditation scheme developed by ALT to recognize and validate the experience and capabilities of individuals whose work involves Learning Technology. CMALT holders can use the post-nominal letters “CMALT”. This extract is from  Core area 1: Operational Issues. In this core area: “Candidates should […]