This blog introduces a new cross-institutional training initiative, the Scottish Research Leaders Network, launching in January 2026, and shares it’s purpose and benefits. Purpose In January 2026 the new Scottish Research Leaders Network will be launched, which is a collaborative initiative advancing research leadership across Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The network aims to make […]

No matter what you’re going through, you are not alone and there is always support available to you. In this article, University of Edinburgh Staff Wellbeing Services Lead Victoria Swan outlines ways staff can access health and wellbeing support at the University. By Victoria Swan, University Staff Wellbeing Services Lead Counselling and Wellbeing Services Counselling […]

Today is the first day of this year’s wonderfully long Christmas holiday, so I should be feeling relaxed and jovial. But I have had to return my car to the garage after some very expensive repairs have failed to do the job. So I am feeling stressed as I return to Lenzie by train, just […]

By Alysia Jimenez, MSc Food Security Food waste is an awfully ‘wicked’ problem Throughout my studies as a MSc Food Security student, I have come to see how food security is not a single-issue problem but a complex and widely interconnected challenge. The Environmental Governance and Policy course has been especially important in shaping this perspective. This course has encouraged me […]

Contributing to the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines, I enjoyed working with talented editors and UX professionals to shape 21 guidelines in the User Experience Design category. In this post, I spotlight selected guidelines, reflecting on how they were written, and how they encapsulate the ethos of the principles behind them. Dec 16, 2025

In this post, Callum Paterson, the Design Lead on the Student Voice Project in Registry Services, presents a reflective round-up of the 16 blog posts from the ‘Student Voice in Practice’ series (May-June 2025), and offers five thing he took away from the series. Callum was previously part of the Student Voice team at Edinburgh […]