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Today’s Film: It’s a Wonderful Life #1 on IMBD’s top 100 Christmas movies of all time, this 1946 classic, directed by Frank Capra is known by everyone, even if they have never seen it. It has been parodied and referenced in media from The Simpsons to The Muppets. You would be hard pressed not to […]
By Glen Cousquer, David Overend, Velda McCune, Frances Ryan, Carolyn Morton, Brian Mather, Lottie Gaunt, Elaine Rainey, Françoise Wemelsfelder, Jonathan Baxter, Hannah Davies, Julia Lisa, Katie Beckman, Ellie Stirling, Catherine Finnegan and Silvia Perez-Espona These texts were written during transdisciplinary fieldwork at Boghall Burn at the University of Edinburgh’s Easter Bush Campus. This research resulted […]
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This Disability History Month (20 November – 20 December 2025) we reflect and learn how to be more inclusive as digital citizens and shape an accessible future for technology.  During December, we encouraged students across campus to reflect on their online accessibility basics and take digital citizenship seriously with the latest digital safety info poster (poster text […]
Following the launch of the Undergraduate Study website and Degree Finder in March, we’ve released 11 updates that have steadily improved editorial workflows, collaboration and performance. Alongside usability and design refinements, these enhancements have made the service more efficient for editors and more effective for prospective students. Dec 19, 2025
We’re thrilled that the National Museum of Scotland will be hosting a screening of the film More Than a Fish Kill on 17 January. The film responds to the Menindee Fish Kills in the Darling-Baaka River, western New South Wales, from 2018-19. It produced by IASH postdoctoral fellow and artist Vic McEwan. This special event comes […]
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By Bella / from the USA / studied MSc Sound Design  Why Scotland? I’m not entirely sure whether it was growing up in history-filled New England, my early obsession with Harry Potter, or the seven seasons of Outlander I binge-watched a few years ago, but something about Scotland has always called to me. So, when I started considering a master’s degree in the UK two years […]
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