It’s been a year since Instructional Designer Andrea Watkins Pérez at UiT The Arctic University of Norway reached out to me after she came across my University profile. Their Learning Design team was facing some challenges with running ABC Learning Design workshops online, and they wondered if I would be up for meeting to talk […]

This February I was back at the PHPUK conference in London. The venue this year was 1 America Square with a historic wall through the middle of one of the rooms. There were three tracks to follow so unfortunately we couldn’t go to all the talks, but managed to cover two thirds. It Depends – […]

A digest of news and developments from around the Edinburgh campus and beyond.

I’ve been using ELM at work and finding it really helps speed up anything I have to write.  ELM is ‘Edinburgh access to Language Models’ and it provides secure access to a number of different LLMs. It’s available to all staff and students at the University so if you haven’t had a look at it, […]

1. Project Overview： Exhibition Title: Invisible Load—The Boundary Between Gazing and Being Gazed Upon Venue: Summer Hall Sciennes Gallery Dates: May 4–8, 2026 (5 days)    10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. Lead image: 2. Curatorial Narrative： “Invisible Load” is a contemporary art exhibition centered on the female perspective, and it also represents a profound social dialogue. Through […]

Preface: In the relentless rhythm of contemporary urban life, efficiency often dictates our value systems, reducing the materials that surround us to anonymous, functional tools. This exhibition, Awareness Through Materiality, rejects the notion of awareness as an abstract psychological comfort, instead reclaiming it as a specific, embodied viewing practice. We explore a central proposition: when […]