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About
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/radlab/about/
New data driven technologies can bring exciting possibilities to our everyday lives. They can also create complex socio-technical and legal risks. The Regulation and Design (RAD) Lab explores how to create better human-technology interactions by building an interdisciplinary research agenda at the interface of technology, design, and regulation. Design can help understand, challenge, and improve […]
Researching with producer organisations for sustainable and equitable forest landscapes
Concern for forests, forest peoples and agriculture Forests and agriculture play pivotal roles in the fight to mitigate and adapt to the global climate crisis. Consequently, research investigating the interfaces between forest and agricultural areas (often referred to as mosaic landscapes), and supporting the smallholder farmers to whom these landscapes are both home and the […]
How the social and behavioural sciences can help us beat the pandemic, writes Gowri Iyer and Nanda Kishore Kannuri
The social and behavioural sciences (SBS) in public health have had an essential but relatively unacknowledged role since the beginning of the field in the early 19th century. Over the last few decades, there has been a slow and gradual paradigm shift in the field globally with growing acknowledgement of the need for SBS research […]
Moving during lockdown: A health investment for now and the future
During this lockdown we are staying at home more than we are used to—spending most of our days sitting and lying down, maybe moving from the living room to the bathroom, then perhaps to the kitchen, and then back to the living room! As PhD students, we are trying to work on our projects, and this requires […]
Component 1:3 Thematic Analysis
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/emma-louise-smith/2022/06/02/component-13-thematic-analysis/
The importance of digitizing exhibitions and collections for online audiences Recently over the past couple of years with the rise of the Covid-19 pandemic, the GLAM sector has had to adapt to how they use their exhibitions and archive collections. With the forced closure of almost every cultural institution, museums and galleries had to come […]
Ethics and liminality in humanitarian innovation
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/mason-institute/2018/06/04/ethics-and-liminality-in-humanitarian-innovation/
by Matthew HuntSpending time at the Mason Institute as a visiting fellow in January 2018 afforded me opportunities to engage with members of the MI team and Liminal Spaces project, including prompting me to think about connections between their work on liminality and my own interests in the ethics of humanitarian innovation. In this blog post I reflect […]
Meet the Eating Disorder and Behaviours Research Group!
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/research-bow/meet-the-eating-disorder-and-behaviours-research-group/
The School of Health in Social Science is associated with different departments, subject areas and research topics. It can be inspiring to work across disciplines and to share a workspace with researchers from varying backgrounds. Focusing on similarities while benefitting from our differences helped us create our relatively new research group which unites researchers investigating […]
COVID-19, emergency legislation and sunset clauses, by Sean Molloy
The UK’s Coronavirus Act 2020 affords the UK government new powers in attempt to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, as with similar legislation enacted by governments around the world. But how important are sunset clauses as part of these measures? And what checks and balances are needed? On 25 March, the UK passed […]
Including Edinburgh's Political Thinkers in Edinburgh University's Politics courses
Liam P. McLaughlin (2023) “Including Edinburgh’s Political Thinkers in Edinburgh University’s courses” [republished] This article is a republished extract from the 2022 Summer sitting of Edinburgh University’s SLICC: Student-Lead Individually-Created Course. Due to re-editing the text has been shortened, detailed analysis omitted, and sections on John Muir, Fredrick Douglas and John MacLean removed. Those […]
Including Edinburgh's Political Thinkers in Edinburgh University's Politics courses
Liam P. McLaughlin (2023) “Including Edinburgh’s Political Thinkers in Edinburgh University’s courses” [republished] This article is a republished extract from the 2022 Summer sitting of Edinburgh University’s SLICC: Student-Lead Individually-Created Course. Due to re-editing the text has been shortened, detailed analysis omitted, and sections on John Muir, Fredrick Douglas and John MacLean removed. Those […]
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