Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Canvas have apologised for the trouble they caused. Always exciting to see learning technology in the news Canvas hack: Company pays criminals to delete students’ stolen data – BBC News We wave goodbye to Emily, our Captioning Consultant intern from Informatics, who has been seduced away […]

The Democratic Intellect: Scotland and her Universities in the Nineteenth Century George Elder Davie (First edition 1961; third edition 2013, Edinburgh University Press) The Scottish university system differed markedly from the English one. It prioritised broad general education and a strong philosophical foundation: Four-year general degree (usually entered at age 15–16), providing a broad education […]

Changing the visual design mid-way in a video project is quite unusual, but pivoting to a softer animation style with stick figures proved successful for both the client and us.

We currently have trial access to the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability Studies on a limited time basis. Disability studies is an established interdisciplinary subject that spans the fields of social science, the humanities, and education, not to mention the many academic subjects therein, be it progressively or potentially. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Disability […]

In June 860, the Carolingian kings Louis the German, Charles the Bald and Lothar II all met at Koblenz on the River Rhine in 860. This ‘summit’ meeting was one of several in late Carolingian Francia, as the kings negotiated their relations with one another. This particular meeting was convened to draw a line under […]

NESSIE staff recently had the opportunity to showcase some of our evidence synthesis reviews at the European Symposium of the Joanna Briggs Institute held at the Scottish Centre for Evidence-Based Practice at Robert Gordon University. The Joanna Briggs Institute is based at the University of Adelaide and focuses on supporting evidence-based decision-making for healthcare. The […]