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2025-26 EEHN-IASH Visiting Fellows Diego Molina and Hilal Alkan will be speaking at the below event. All are welcome to attend, but please register with IASH in advance. Cultivating A Nation: how biodiversity shapes countries Event date: Tuesday 24 March, 16:00-17:00 Location: IASH Seminar Room, first floor, 2 Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9NW and […]
In 2025, the University of Edinburgh ran a new top task survey, having last run one in 2018. Improvements we made to the survey this time have resulted in our most confident understanding of what tasks are most important to prospective students thinking about applying to university. I’ll explore what these tasks are and how […]
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Guest blog, Anita Sangha – The Fairness Foundation  Last year, in partnership with the Discovering Liveability project team, The Fairness Foundation brought together a group of experts from public health, economics, sociology, and psychology to discuss the relationship between wealth inequality, suicide and liveability.   Suicide rates in the UK are on the rise. In the year 2023/24, 7,055 deaths caused by […]
Course Reflections: Through the course of study, my understanding of the concept of curation has undergone a significant transformation. Initially, when I first encountered curation, I merely thought it was about setting a theme, selecting artists and works, and presenting them to the public. However, as I delved into the study of curation in public […]
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