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About Edinburgh For anyone needing a visual, here is a movie (format .mov; 16Mb) showing the city of Edinburgh from the top of Blackford Hill. The latter is one of Edinburgh’s 7 extinct volcanos which is just 5 minutes walk from the University’s science campus, Kings Buildings, on the south side of the city of […]
By Josie Robertson As a PhD student in the Marioni group here at the IGC, I recently had the opportunity to contribute to an international study seeking to understand associations between DNA methylation and cells of the innate immune system on ageing and related health outcomes. DNA methylation patterns (called Epigenetic clocks) measured across our […]
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On 11 September 2025 Nick Daniels, Mel Batcharj and I attended the UCISA User Experience (UX) Community Day 2025 – organised by Emma Horrell and the UCISA committee. In this blog we share our reflections from the day. Sep 19, 2025
By Axelle, from Seychelles, studied Climate Change Finance and Investment Hello! I’m Axelle from Seychelles, a recent graduate of the MSc in Climate Change Finance and Investment. I’m now working as a Senior Finance Analyst within the Ministry of Finance, National Planning and Trade in Seychelles. Choosing to study the programme I was drawn to […]
Rain is co-author of our living countryside; it is also a part of our deep internal landscape, […] complain about it as we may, rain is essential to our sense of identity as it is to our soil. (Melissa Harrison, Rain) I am walking with my mum, Julie, and my puppy, Clyde. Mum has been […]
