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In preparation for the retirement of the Virtual Visit platform in October 2025, the team ran a project to understand how prospective students orientate themselves with Edinburgh and the campus. I share key findings and how updating programme profiles with Google Maps content can help with orientation. Dec 2, 2025
This book, published by Edinburgh Diamond, contains a graphic adaptation of Stevenson’s story ‘The Bottle Imp’, produced by Hawaiian artist Solomon Enos. The adaptation is wordless, and is accompanied by Enos’s own plot summary, both in English and in Samoan (translated by Sadat Muaiava). Also included is an illustration (by British artist Jack Brougham) outlining […]
In this post, Patricia Castro Sánchez explains a research project that trialled the two-stage exam and included students in the research process. Patricia is a Teaching Lecturer at the Institute of Immunology and Infection Research. This post belongs to the Student Partnership Agreement 2025 series. “If you ask someone else for help on a problem in […]
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 […]
Art in Translation (AIT) publishes the best writing from around the world on the visual arts, architecture, and design in English translation. The journal was launched on 26 February 2009 with generous funding from Getty Foundation, Los Angeles. Initially published three times a year, Art in Translation increased its frequency to four times a year, starting […]
At the far end of the station car park, marking the entrance to the Moss, an old signpost is hidden by the trees. The metal surface has dulled and the information it displays can only be seen from certain angles. The sign points walkers to the canal and tells them how far away it is. […]
