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New research project: Edinburgh scientists receive funding for pioneering study into hydrogen storage for decarbonising UK’s energy sector
Geoscientists from the University of Edinburgh have received funding from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) for a £1.4 million research project to investigate the storage of hydrogen in the subsurface. The project, HyStorPor (Hydrogen Storage in Porous Media), is designed to increase understanding of the whole hydrogen storage system, from fundamental physical […]
Sport, Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease: Cause, Cure and Compassion?
By Professor Michael Ego University of Connecticut- Stamford The text below was developed from the address presented at a one day symposia on Sport, Dementia and Mental Health hosted by The Scottish Football Museum in partnership with the University of Edinburgh. Dementia can be caused by a number of different diseases, the most common being […]
Full details of Horizon Europe funding calls for 2021/2022 now published
Now that the Horizon Europe 2021-2022 Work Programme has been officially launched, Áine Ryan, International Research Funding Manager, provides a general overview of available funding opportunities. Horizon Europe is the ninth Framework Programme through which the EU will fund research and innovation. It will run for seven years from 2021-2027, and be funded by the […]
Crafting Magic
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/craftingmagic/
This website contains a series of hidden prompts. Each prompt has a cooresponding playing card in the Shift/Workshop Crafting Magic shift-work.org.uk Full Resource List (link) The aim of Crafting Magic is to create a magic effect, successfully perform the effect, and, finally, to produce a Grimoire that encodes the crafted magic in such a way […]
COVID-19 Vaccination, Preparedness, and the Case for Vaccine Injury Redress - by Mary-Elizabeth Tumelty et al.
A fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic is underway worldwide. At the time of writing (20 December 2021), there have been 275 million cases of COVID-19 and sadly, 5.35 million deaths. Thus far, a vaccination has largely been viewed as the antidote to the pandemic. Like many other medications, treatments, and vaccinations, the COVID-19 vaccines […]
Future Challenges for the Land Register of Scotland: Automation and privatisation (Part Two)
In the second of a two-part posting, Rod Thomas, an academic visitor to Edinburgh Law School, considers how moves to privatise the process of land registration have unfolded in Australia and Canada. Privatisation Privatisation is proving to be a heady mix for many Australian and Canadian governments. There is unquestionably significant commercial value in “big […]
Some views on contemporary art
For the Making and Breaking Narrative project, I wanted to investigate how the relationship between contemporary art and the materials/methods it uses. As I’m personally interested in traditional methods (primarily oil painting), I wanted to understand why modern art shirks away from these mediums and methods, and stays predominantly in the realms of abstraction and […]
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I am a Lecturer in Engineering Management at the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, where I am also Deputy Director for Teaching and Learning managing our portfolio of Interdisciplinary Courses. I am also Deputy Director of the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation (ISSTI) and Deputy Director for Festival Futures at the […]
Multisensory processing
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/smartsense/2024/07/22/multisensory-processing/
The brain is truly clever: not only does it associate and transfer information, crossmodally, from one sense to another. And adapt, through crossmodal plasticity, to sensory impairments. (See our blog for the crossmodal correspondences between the senses and Crossmodal brain plasticity and empowering of sensory abilities.) It integrates and processes information from multiple senses too. […]
Project 3: Mapping the Soundscape
Week 1: Soundscape walk Week 2: Lecture and Ideas Use graphics to indicate sound types: create a key or a legend. Use words used to describe sounds. Use colour to represent a sound: sound and a colour can overlap in meaning, ascribe a colour to a sound, use a collage or montage of images […]
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