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This year’s LILAC information literacy conference was held from 30 March – 1 April 2026 at the University of Sheffield with two members of the Library Academic Support Team in attendance, Jade Fenton (Graduate Library Trainee) and Ishbel Leggat (Academic Support Librarian). Jade and Ishbel have put together a summary of their reflections and picked […]
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.
The Art & Architecture Library will be closed from Monday 25th May until Friday 4th September inc. The library will re-open on Monday 7th September at 9am. From Monday 25th May, you will be able to place online requests for Art & Architecture Library books for pickup at the Law Library, across Chambers Street in Old College. […]
I’ve thought about writing this post for awhile because I want to share all of the scholarships I applied for as a Canadian international PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. My goal with this post is to illuminate funding opportunities, and to help other Canadian researchers and potential doctoral students alleviate the financial stress […]
I completed my VIVA in January 2026, and I wrote pretty extensively in a previous post titled How I survived my viva and PhD thesis defence in creative writing about how I prepared. The preparation phase is the most dominant part of the PhD journey. It’s the one we all fear. So, even though I […]
In late April we had the opportunity to attend the 24th annual Durham Blackboard Users’ Conference, affectionately known as #durbbu, hosted in historic Durham. This year’s theme, Little Things that Make a Big Difference, was a pleasant shif...
