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In this post, Dr Allison Cullinane outlines how the School of Biological Sciences utilises the Skills for Success Framework to capture student reflections on their skills. Dr Cullinane demonstrates that the Framework has been a useful tool to make the skills already embedded in the School’s courses more explicit to students, but also how by […]
On Tuesday 2 June, colleagues from LTW teams came together for a Learn Resilience Exercise. The purpose was to test how we would respond if one of the University’s key teaching and learning systems became unavailable, and to think practically about what that would mean in a live incident. With cyber security and large-scale IT […]
Changing the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.
In chapter 3 of Whose Justice, Which Rationality, MacIntyre argues that post-Homeric Greek society inherited two different types of goods. Goods of excellence are achieved through the cultivation and exercise of the virtues. They are connected with what it means to excel as a human being and as a citizen. Goods of effectiveness are goods such […]
June is here and it’s time to celebrate! Here’s a roundup of Pride 2026 events in and around Edinburgh, including Glasgow’s main Pride and other Scottish prides. Please let us know if we’ve missed anything that you’d like us to share with the network! PrideSoc have also compiled some fab events happening this month, check […]
17th Conference of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) Galway, Éire Thursday, 25 June — 9:30am Workshop 📍 HBB-G001 https://sar2026.ie/joots-suite ‘… at the core of a magic performance is interaction: it cannot be performed alone.’ (Nardi 1984, 26) Situated rites are based on an awareness of the interrelatedness of everything; they operate in specifically defined fields […]
