The internet is a great place to keep in touch with others. Whether you exchange thoughts with strangers about your favourite season finale on social media, play and chat while at home during a global pandemic, or like in my case, get to talk to friends and family living in another country – technology enables our need to socialise.  However, the way we form connections online, and the tech we use to do so, also comes […]

Exhibition Viewing: The Children Are Now 📍Gallery: Talbot Rice Gallery This is an exhibition about “childism”, calling on people to seek ways to grant children rights and to reconsider the role of children in shaping our world. Exhibition layout: First exhibition area: On the first floor of the entrance hall, The Boat People is screened, […]

Week 3 Blog Feb 1, 2026

Last year, I had the honour of giving the Doug Altman Memorial Lecture at the Peer Review Congress in Chicago. As long ago as 1994, Doug famously wrote, ‘we need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons’ (Altman, 1994). And so, I took as my theme, Does the Journal Article have […]

Hi, I’m Ailís! I’m a fourth-year GeoSciences student and a Student Ambassador for the School of GeoSciences. I’m going to take you through a day in my life as a student at the University of Edinburgh, and hopefully help you feel a bit more informed as to what your life could look like if you […]

In this post, Dr Maryam Almohammad and Master’s student, Lara Pacini, discuss their experience of group work through film-making –  a creative, collaborative approach in the Intercultural Language Learner Identity course, part of the MSc in Language and Intercultural Communication at Moray House School of Education and Sport. This post is part of the Group Work series. […]