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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
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
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
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
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 […]
Evolution and revolution: preparing for the future
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/employability-equipping-our-graduates-to-succeed/
As a child I had an austere English teacher who frequently told my class that we must, “Say what we mean, and mean what we say”. I was reflecting on this recently while discussing the evolution and definitions of employability, and the benefit of a shared understanding and conception. If we truly mean for the […]
Expanding Peer Learning in Informatics
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/expanding-peer-learning-in-informatics/
For the past few years, students in the School of Informatics and the Students’ Association have been running InfPALS. PALS stands for ‘Peer Assisted Learning Scheme’: a form of peer learning where students in higher years facilitate study sessions on academic content for students in lower years. These sessions provide students with a space to […]
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 […]
ASTROMOVES: The Gendered Results
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/astromoves/2024/03/27/astromoves-the-gendered-results/
For the ASTROMOVES project, effort was made to include non-heterosexuals in order to include more gender categories. However, in the end, in order to protect the anonymity of the scientists only three broad gender categories were used: Heterosexual females, heterosexual males and LGBTQIA+ members. Having that third gender category is an achievement for a study […]
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