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Day 1 Panel: Edinburgh Student Vision: Dialogue, hearing and co-creating
Edinburgh Student Vision: Dialogue, hearing and co-creating Panellists: Jon Turner (Director, Institute for Academic Development), Neil Speirs (Widening Participation Manager), Tara Gold (Vice President Education at Edinburgh University Students’ Association), Lisa Kendall (Head of Academic and Student Administration, CAHSS), Sabine Rolle (Senior Lecturer, Department of European Languages and Cultures), Chris Perkins (Senior Lecturer in Japanese) […]
New Environmental Humanities fellow - Dr Cheryl Lousley
Dr Cheryl Lousley of Lakehead University has joined IASH this month as an Environmental Humanities visiting fellow, until the end of July. Dr Lousley’s project, ‘Environmental Narrative and Memory in Contemporary Canadian Fiction’, focuses on contemporary Canadian authors who write about cultural memory in relation to the extractive industries that have long been central to […]
'Affect in the Anthropocene: “What is Missing?”', a lecture by Dr Jennifer Ladino (University of Idaho)
In an era of overwhelming species extinction and environmental degradation, environmental humanities scholars must consider how to represent, cope with, and perhaps deploy loss. This lecture will examine affects associated with loss—primarily nostalgia, solastalgia, and grief—as they function in the process of memorialization in the Anthropocene, an era some have characterized as a “melancholy” one. […]
Welcome to SELCIE!
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/selcie/2016/12/24/welcome-to-selcie-2/
Welcome to the blog of the Scotland’s Early Literature for Children Initiative! SELCIE is a project that aims to explore the forgotten history of Scotland’s literature for children. Our current work is in conjunction with Edinburgh’s Museum of Childhood, which has the UK’s largest collection of childhood associated objects. Within these collections are some 11,000 […]
Petition for an increased EU budget for research and innovation
Alan Kennedy explains the background to the current petition calling for an increased EU budget for research and innovation. Euroscience and the ‘Initiative for Science in Europe’ have created a petition to call for an increased EU budget for research and innovation. As you probably know the European Commission, in its proposal for the next […]
Provisional progamme for GeoForum 2020 - Register now
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/digimap/2020/01/30/provisional-progamme-for-geoforum-2020-register-now/
Our next GeoForum 2020 will be held on Tuesday 3rd March 2020 at the Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment. Our provisional programme is as follows and may be subject to change: 10.30 Registration and coffee Welcome – EDINA Dr Jonathan […]
Drafts: Original inspiration
As I walked through a shopping mall in Chengdu, I was genuinely delighted by the combination of plants and shops. Full of vibrant atmosphere and people enjoying the moment. So I became curious about the influence of plants on environmental design. At first, I was just surprised by the sense of atmosphere. People can go […]
Contact Centres & Workplace Health Report
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/scphrp/2022/05/09/contact-centres-workplace-health-report/
Report Overview This is the first of a three-part PhD project by SCPHRP PhD Candidate Jillian Manner. The aim of the PhD is to understand how organisational and cultural factors impact on the long-term implementation and sustainability of workplace wellbeing programmes. Introduction Health promotion programmes often have mixed success, particularly in workplace settings. Many workplace […]
Ethnographic turn reading
Revisiting the ethnographic turn in contemporary art Art has come to occupy a space long associated with anthropology, becoming one of the main sites for tracking, representing, and performing the effects of difference in contemporary life. People have been growing interest in anthropology for contemporary art that started from a problematisation of the different […]
Online discussion=Online argument/ persuasion
For the past month and a half, I have been busy summarizing the knowledge from each course and completing differnet assignments. Many of the courses have provided me with powerful insights and inspirations, which I will elaborate on in the following blogs. Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion is a really wonderful course that has helped me […]
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