I am walking with a colleague from the University. James is a Lecturer in Digital Education, and I have learned a lot from him about the relationship between the physical and digital classroom. When I told him about this project, he was interested in visiting a place that might seem to be separated from the […]

About Edinburgh For anyone needing a visual, here is a movie (format .mov; 16Mb) showing the city of Edinburgh from the top of Blackford Hill. The latter is one of Edinburgh’s 7 extinct volcanos which is just 5 minutes walk from the University’s science campus, Kings Buildings, on the south side of the city of […]

Created by Katherine Martinkevich as part of the Digital Futures course for the MSc in Digital Education, ‘ELT Ecotone – [...]

Work Package 1 of Discovering Liveability is centred on building a ‘Lived & Living Experience Hub’ for suicide research (more information here and here). As part of that work, we are visiting research groups and practitioners around the world who are already engaged in the messy, important work of centring lived and living experience perspectives. […]

There’s a stretch of the River Spey that I walk most days. It is a habit developed when pandemic rules kept us close to home. My stretch is a mile or so of fast flowing, braided river, with a sand, silt and pebble bed, banked by woodland of willow, Scots pine, rowan and gorse, with […]

Welcome to the November and December Hot Topic: Student Partnership Agreement 2025 The Student Partnership Agreement is an engaging and enriching experience for students and staff to come together to work in partnership to enhance the student experience. The Agreement itself is an official document outlining the explicit commitment between Edinburgh University Students Association and the […]