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Research Reflection Inspired by World Vegan Day
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/research-bow/research-reflection-inspired-by-world-vegan-day/
Regardless if you are vegan or not, you may have already considered how your diet influences the planet and all the organisms living on it—especially now, when we are faced with environmental disasters and persistent news about animal cruelty. However, the discourse about veganism is complex. As a researcher in the field of eating disorders, I am inclined to critically engage with any diet that […]
January 2020 update – impact of Brexit on EU funded research under Horizon 2020 (H2020)
Áine Ryan, Research Funding Manager (EU and International), provides the latest update regarding the impact of Brexit on Horizon 2020 funding. Researchers and businesses based in the UK can continue to participate in, bid for and lead projects (including ERC and MSCA-IF) in the European Union’s (EU) flagship programme Horizon 2020 (H2020), as if the […]
Designing our own PhD Projects: Pressure or Privilege
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/wt4yrphd-tn/2019/06/05/designing-our-own-phd-projects-pressure-or-privilege/
One of the most unique and attractive aspects of this PhD Programme is the fact that we are given the opportunity to design our own PhD projects. This is very different to most PhD projects or programmes where a variety of PI’s might pitch projects and you would pick your favourite, which is how we […]
1.3 What is cultural heritage?
Understanding what is heritage and how is it valued? A quick overview of key ideas. We view heritage as processual and emergent, as opposed to static objects to be only preserved (Harvey and Perry, 2015). Tangible climate change impacts on heritage, such as eroding coastal archaeology, chemical weathering and thawing permafrost/landscape change, have dominated publications […]
ELAN Scripts
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/amaliaskilton/elan-scripts/
Extending the functions of ELAN ELAN is a media annotation application produced by MPI for Psycholinguistics. It’s widely used for annotating audio and video in language documentation. This page includes links to scripts and tutorials I’ve created to add functions that weren’t present as of ELAN 5.9. Resources are by me, not by the creators […]
Teaching and facilitation in the online setting
Online teaching should not be downgraded to “facilitation.” (Bayne, Sian, et al. The Manifesto for Teaching Online) is one of the statements from the Manifesto. But is facilitation really a downgrading of teaching? Used correctly and in some settings, I think facilitation is completely appropriate for a teacher but maybe the negativity partly lies in the […]
Volunteering may be the clincher that gets you the job: Spotlight on volunteering
Elle Arscott graduated from Edinburgh in 2016 with an MA History of Art and History of Music. During my time at the University of Edinburgh I volunteered extensively with the student association – first through the Arts & Culture Volunteer Group and then with the EUSA Volunteer Council. After graduation I moved abroad […]
Back to the Future of Technology
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ede/2021/12/06/back-to-the-future-of-technology/
I came across this image the other day through a tweet by Marina Amaral. Marina is a Brazilian artist who specialises in the accurate colourisation of historical photographs and her twitter posts are full of interesting, sometimes bizarre, sometimes hilarious images and the stories behind them. The image above is one of a series that […]
Regenerative Sustainability at University of British Columbia
Programme Manager Matthew Lawson reflects on a very special lecture from John Robinson, Former Associate Provost of Sustainability at the University of British Columbia, which took place at the University of Edinburgh on the 4th March 2016. Regenerative sustainability. This was the subject of John Robinson’s public talk on Friday 4th March, which was hosted […]
Illustration staff Astrid Jaekel wins AOI award
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/illustrationeca/2019/07/11/illustration-staff-astrid-jaekel-wins-aoi-award/
A Teaching Fellow in Illustration has been awarded a prestigious Association of Illustrators (AOI) World Award for her recent street art project, “If These Walls Could Talk”. For the twentieth anniversary of Wigtown’s book festival, Astrid Jaekel decorated 11 buildings on the small town’s square with her illustrations. In the 1980s and into the 1990s, many […]
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