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#CelebratingTogether: Professor Richard Sparks

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/learningexchange/2021/02/17/celebratingtogether-professor-richard-sparks/

Edinburgh University Students’ Association’s Student-Led Teaching Awards are back to recognise outstanding members of learning and support staff. After a challenging year for everyone, we’re celebrating our worthy nominees by shouting about their successes across our digital platforms.    What is your full name?  Richard Sparks  What is your job title?  Professor of Criminology  What school or […]


#Celebrating Together: Dr Carlos Soler Montes

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/learningexchange/2021/02/12/celebrating-together-dr-carlos-soler-montes/

Edinburgh University Students’ Association’s Student-Led Teaching Awards are back to recognise outstanding members of learning and support staff. After a challenging year for everyone, we’re celebrating our worthy nominees by shouting about their successes across our digital platforms.    What is your full name?  Carlos Soler Montes  What is your job title?  Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics  What […]


The graduate: Callum Cruickshank

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/medstudentlife/2021/11/03/the-graduate-callum-cruickshank/

MBChB graduate Callum Cruickshank on a busy professional life after medical school.   What is your current role? I am a few things: A core trainee in Psychiatry (currently in Psychiatry of Older Age (Monday-Wednesday) A clinical fellow in Medicine of the Elderly (MoE) liaison to Neurosurgery (Thursday/Friday) A trustee of the charity You Can […]


Semester 1 Reflections

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/cooperative-learning-course/2019/04/05/semester-1-reflections-2/

For my reflection on the first semester of our course; The Future of Our University: An Interdisciplinary Experiment in Cooperative Learning. I have decided to focus on our medium of association and the ‘consensus decision making’ approach. To help structure the reflection, I will compare and contrast it to contemporary political methods of discussion.   […]


Week6 - The World Through the Eyes of a Moderate Alzheimer's Patient

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/dmsp-process24/2024/03/06/week6-the-world-through-the-eyes-of-a-moderate-alzheimers-patient/

I hope to create a world as seen through the eyes of an Alzheimer’s patient. In the eyes of a person with moderate Alzheimer’s disease, they tend to forget the object they are going to look for or suddenly forget their task in the process of looking for it, which in turn creates emotional and […]


The bioethics of transnational commercial pregnancy: reflections on the J Kenyon Mason Annual Lecture with Prof Francoise Baylis

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/mason-institute/2015/03/20/the-bioethics-of-transnational-commercial-pregnancy-reflections-on-the-j-kenyon-mason-annual-lecture-with-prof-francoise-baylis/

By Agomoni Ganguli MitraIt isn’t every day that you get to spend a winter evening huddled in a distinguished, old anatomy lecture theatre to listen to some of your favourite topics—social justice, women’s health, India and assisted reproduction—in a captivating talk, followed by a warm, informal exchange over a glass of wine. Yet, last Thursday, […]


Escaping to silence and escaping silence

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s1919659_space-place-and-sensory-perception-2021-2022sem2/2022/03/24/escaping-to-silence-and-escaping-silence/

Whilst “there is no such thing as total silence” (Gann 2010, p ix), relative silence is a powerful tool that we can use to regulate our mood. Silence is usually associated with calm, melancholy, and peace, but it can also be linked with the anxiety and danger of being left with our own thoughts. I […]


Unlearning (Crosstalk) Part 2

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s1648283_contemporary-art--open-learning-2021-2022sem1/2021/10/19/unlearning-crosstalk-part-2/

Context for this post can be found in Unlearning (Crosstalk) Part 1. Following the group Crosstalk exercise we broke off into smaller groups to begin thinking in more detail about the theory and practice of “unlearning”. We started by using word association to generate meanings and ideas suggested by “unlearning”, before grouping these ideas into […]


Youth and Protagonism: responses to the dilemmas of the 21st century

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sukanyakrishnamurthy/2021/05/10/youth-and-protagonism-responses-to-the-dilemmas-of-the-21st-century/

Fórum Juventude Sul Fluminense em Ação (FJSFA)  Youth Forum of South Fluminense in Action  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Children and young people have played a fundamental role in transforming citizenship and democracy over the decades. In the redemocratization of Brazil, students and student associations established their importance when they won the right to vote from […]


Conversations on Ageing Network (CAN)

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/scphrp/past-projects/conversations-on-ageing-network-can/

The Conversations on Ageing Network consists of researchers, policymakers, third sector organisations such as charities, and other businesses and services from UK and India working together to promote healthy ageing. 2021-2030 has been declared the decade of healthy ageing by the World Health Organisation. Lower-Middle Income Countries like India are charged with the urgent task […]


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