By Lyndon, second year Civil Engineering (BEng Hons) During my summer this year, I chose to attend a summer school under the university’s guidance. I chose to attend a summer school in Wuhan that dealt with AI and robotics. One of the reasons I picked this program was the location. China has always really interested […]

Oct 6, 2021

In November 2025, staff from Edinburgh Research Office volunteered at the reopened Gorgie Community Farm in Edinburgh. Annie Prentis, Research Bid Development Executive, tells the story of their Day to Make a Difference. Like the sound of it? You, too, can get involved. On a bleak, grey, cold, damp Monday morning in November, four of […]

Children’s climate litigation has boomed in the last 10 years. According to the University College Cork Youth Climate Justice project’s case law database, approximately 81 climate cases have been launched by children and youth, or on their behalf, in countries all over the world in the past decade. These cases include child applicants as young as 7 years and under, but the majority fall within the 13 to 18 years range.[1] They often act alongside young adults up to age 25, and some of them reach adulthood while the case is pending, thus the term child/youth-involved climate litigation.

We celebrated the first year of EdWeb 2 with an event for the EdWeb 2 community on Tuesday 13 January 2026.  In this blog, I revisit our event planning and event highlights, and offer key takeaways from the presentations as a recap for those who joined us and an update for those who couldn’t make it – hope we’ll see you next time!  Planning a birthday party for a web platform  We started brainstorming content for […]

Over the last year, we launched our revamped undergraduate and postgraduate degree finders, complete with a host of new, user-friendly features in the content management system (CMS) for editors and administrators to utilise in the backend. One of these features is a built-in comments function, which allows users to interact with one another by leaving […]