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I am walking with my eleven-year-old daughter, Iona. We have been waiting for a good time to do this for a while and today it is just the two of us at home, so it is the perfect opportunity. It is a foggy Saturday morning at the start of December and some of the houses […]
Day 6: Klaus Today’s film is 2019’s Klaus. It presents an alternate origin of Santa Claus in a fictional 19th-century island town in the Far North where a postman befriends a reclusive toymaker. When Smeerensburg’s new postman, Jesper, befriends toymaker Klaus, their gifts melt an age-old feud and deliver a sleigh full of holiday traditions. […]
In preparation for the retirement of the Virtual Visit platform in October 2025, the team ran a project to understand how prospective students orientate themselves with Edinburgh and the campus. I share key findings and how updating programme profiles with Google Maps content can help with orientation. Dec 2, 2025
The University of Edinburgh published a press release in September 2022 announcing that the Digital Islam Across Europe team had been successful in securing funding from CHANSE for the project. The full release can be read here: https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2022/experts-assess-digital-impact-on-muslim-lives Sep 15, 2022
Over the coming weeks and months, there will be edge switch upgrades occurring on each floor of the Forum and the Bayes Centre. Scope: Wired connections in offices will be affected. WiFi, phones and doors will not be affected. This is being done to ensure the security, reliability, and modernity of our network. On each […]
In light of the reflective time of the awards season for film, Yasmeena Sulaiman looks at how even though the BAFTA awards have not always been an indicator of how the Oscars will go, the 2023 Academy Awards is different. Mar 19, 2023
