Members Bios: Mentors

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/decolonise/2024/02/08/members-bios-mentors/

Mentors   Diana Paton (William Robertson Professor of History, specialist in Caribbean history and history of slavery) Diana grew up and near London and did her first degree at Warwick University, followed by a PhD at Yale University, where she studied with Emilia Viotti da Costa, Gilbert Joseph, and Nancy Cott. After a year as a […]

Weekly Changes - 15/01/2024

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/lcfg/2024/01/15/weekly-changes-15-01-2024/

Not a lot happening this week other than an important fix for the openssh service on sites which also use openafs. Here are the details… openssh For openssh on Ubuntu the ssh.socket unit is now explicitly masked so that it is not unexpectedly enabled by a package script. This would only be useful if you […]

Internship Students

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/art-translation/internship-students/

Internships based in Edinburgh: Students have been involved with Art in Translation since 2010, working closely with the editorial manager and the editors in Edinburgh. These internships (usually one day per week) are part of the taught Masters programme in the School of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh. The intern for 2023-2024 […]

Case Study Part One: The Data

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/tolcaah/2022/06/10/case-study-part-one-the-data/

The overarching aim of this project is to get contemporary cultural events data into the hands of arts and humanities researchers. As part of this project, we have undertaken a case study using cultural events data supplied by our industry partners Data Thistle to ask some of our own research questions and to explore the […]

Project 1: Changes and new ideas

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s2278896_drawn-from-the-city-2021-2022sem2/2022/02/07/changes-and-new-ideas/

Based on the feedback and the exchange of ideas during the last session, where one classmate told me about the possibility of seek where else I could find disposal bags, I decided to research along the city if I could find more of this objects. I found that there are a few of these bags […]

2022/Nov/14 Ciprian Pruteanu

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/yair_fosado/2022/11/14/2022-nov-14-ciprian-pruteanu/

Supercritical Fluids – Not Quite So Indistinguishable While the gaseous and solid states of matter are relatively well understood, and clearly distinguished by their lack of or presence of long-range order, a complete characterisation of the liquid state is still being debated. Generally, liquids have been thought of by analogy to gases, as an extreme […]

Death and the Present World – Coco (2017)

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/thefilmdispatch/death-and-the-present-world-coco-2017/

Coco (2017) offers the illusion of a link between the real world and the return of dead souls, through the memories and thoughts of the living, personified in photographs, which the souls are able to return to on the annual El Día de los Muertos. In the film, the world after death is rich and […]

About the project

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/lovetoread/open-research/

  Love to Read was a collaborative research project, with four distinct phases, to ensure the programme was informed by research (Phase 1), children (Phase 2) and teachers (Phase 3) before its evaluation (Phase 4). As a team we were committed to open research practices, to increase transparency of our research process. We  preregistered all […]

What is accreditation, and why is it important

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/postgradlife/what-is-accreditation/

In this blog post, we explain what accreditation is and how it benefits postgraduate programmes. Several of the University of Edinburgh’s postgraduate programmes are accredited by professional bodies and organisations. But what does this mean? What is accreditation? Accreditation is when a programme is officially verified by an external body. The verification process can be […]

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/speniston_co-heart-study/

BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS FOR “HEARTS” Dr. Asubiojo Benjamin, Medical Director of Leyaata Hospital, with Sandra Peniston, a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh WHAT is the CO-HEART study?  The Co-Produced Hypertension Adult Intervention (CO-HEART) study is a research project that aims to develop a feasible, acceptable, and sustainable co-produced primary healthcare intervention for rural adults with […]