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Creative Writing careers

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/careersinformed/creative-writing-careers/

Following on from last night’s session on Starting a Writing Career, with Buzzfeed UK, we wanted to highlight some further support available to those of you considering a career in creative writing. The Careers Service has put together a great resource for anyone wanting to earn a living from their creative writing skills which you […]


EUSA Teaching Awards Podcast - Dr. Crispin Jordan and Dr. Glen Cousquer (34 min)

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/learningexchange/2021/05/03/eusa-teaching-awards-podcast-dr-crispin-jordan-and-dr-glen-cousquer/

Welcome to the Edinburgh University Student’s Association Teaching Award Podcast Series. Working with the Edinburgh Hybrid Teaching Exchange to celebrate those that have been nominated and shortlisted for this year’s awards. In this episode, Grace Lavender Student Council Facilitator and 4th Year Religious Studies Student, talks with 2021 nominees Dr. Crispin Jordan, a Teaching Fellow […]


One for Sorrow (in Autumn)

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s1940657_drawn-from-the-city-2020-2021sem1/2020/11/09/one-for-sorrow-continued/

Making and Breaking a Narrative continued: Following my initial composition of a single Magpie, I created a background/scene for him to sit in: Each element of the collage holds different meanings: The tree and leaves are based on the Celtic and Pagan symbol of the ‘Tree of Life’, but as the tree is losing it’s […]


Making and Breaking a Narrative (Initial Research)

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s1940657_drawn-from-the-city-2020-2021sem1/2020/10/26/making-and-breaking-a-narrative-initial-research/

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy. Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy. Five for Silver, Six for Gold. Seven for a Secret, Never to be told. The Magpie (Pica Pica) is a creature of superstition, attached to stories, songs and salutes. Associated with the devil, theft and death, it is a bird which […]


A study of socialising and depression in men

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ectu_ehe/2021/01/05/socialising-with-depression/

Historically, health economic research, especially economic evaluations and health technology assessment, have focused on physical health rather than mental health. This is partly explained by the difficulties in identifying and measuring mental health and its outcomes. A necessary first step before carrying out health economic research, is to describe and understand the size of the […]


My Experiences with Autism and Dyslexia in Geology and while on GeoSciences Field Trips

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/hdeak/2020/10/02/my-experiences-with-autism-and-dyslexia-in-geology-and-while-on-geosciences-field-trips/

I am a BSc Geology graduate from the University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences. I studied various aspects of geosciences for 5 years. I worked for the University of Edinburgh as a Student Ambassador, Receptionist, Social Media Representative and Office Aide. I volunteered with the School of GeoSciences as a public outreach helper, where I […]


Not the Faroes, but almost

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/hughpumphrey/2015/03/20/not-the-faroes-but-almost/

Everybody loves a solar eclipse, even if the zone of totality is in as inconvenient a place as the Faroe islands. We set up open viewing (and observation of the associated weather) in the meteorology lab on the top floor of the University’s James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB). It isn’t often that we get so […]


Analysis of the West of Scotland Youth Cohorts for Secular Trends in Risky Behaviours

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/scphrp/2014/05/30/project-analysis-of-the-west-of-scotland-youth-cohorts-for-secular-trends-in-risky-behaviours/

In addition to its programme of competitively awarded seed grants, SCPHRP commissioned seven needs-based projects during 2008 – 2012, with a focus on  the development of improved data-systems for sensitive population-level monitoring of overall changes in Scottish health status, and trends and patterns in health inequalities, particularly by socio-economic status (SES). This project reports on […]


Maureen Dobbins - Facilitating evidence-informed public health decision making: Lessons learned from a Canadian journey

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/scphrp/2014/03/19/maureen-dobbins-facilitating-evidence-informed-public-health-decision-making-lessons-learned-from-a-canadian-journey/

The keynote speaker is Dr Maureen Dobbins, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, McMaster University, Canada.  Maureen has concentrated her research efforts on understanding knowledge transfer and exchange and evidence-informed decision making among public health decision makers in Canada. The most significant product from her research has been the development and launch in 2005 of this […]


Call for Special Sessions / Workshops

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ice-2023/cfssw/

As every year, we are looking to accommodate a small number of Special Sessions and Workshops, associated with critical emerging themes, as well as ongoing and prospective research projects: Special Sessions are intended to allow research projects or any other group of authors to present their own work. Therefore, Special Sessions may address one or […]


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