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I heart the Library
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/aburford/2016/12/06/i-heart-the-library/
I referenced in an earlier blog post that I have become particularly fond of the 5th floor of the University Library in George Square. In fact I am here again as I type this. I went to check in via FourSquare and noticed the following comment from Pearson – Always Learning: So I am […]
Innovative Learning Week: Educational Design and Engagement Events
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ede/2015/02/05/innovative-learning-week-ede-events/
Innovative Learning Week will be held at the University of Edinburgh from February 16th to 20th. The Educational Design and Engagement Team (formerly Learning Services) decided to have events aimed particularly at Staff since most of the events are for students (and rightly so!). We thought it would be interesting to hold a few lunchtime […]
Adverse childhood experiences, resilience, suicide and harm
We were lucky to have a wonderful presentation by Dr Amy Chandler at our seminar in December 2018. Several participants asked to see Amy’s presentation again – the link to which was unhelpfully hidden in my summary of the event. So, here is a quick link to Amy’s presentation and slides. In it she examines […]
HIV/AIDS: into the third decade
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/global-health-academy/2013/12/01/hivaids-into-the-third-decade/
1981 saw the first description of AIDS cases in the USA. There are now over 100,000 people living with HIV in the UK and around 34 million people worldwide. In 2011, an estimated 1.7 million people worldwide died from HIV related causes. In the UK, around 1 in 5 patients living with HIV are not […]
What are the current and future opportunities for the University of Edinburgh and educational institutions to work towards the Sustainable Development Goals?
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sustainability/2018/sdg-placement/
Sonja Peacock reflects on her work placement with the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability over the Summer. The Sustainable Development Goals are an ambitious set of targets that aim to address a collection of the world’s most pressing challenges, including poverty, environmental degradation and gender inequality. These goals were adopted by the United Nations […]
Reflections from Porto
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sustainability/2017/reflections-from-porto/
Matthew Lawson, Programme Manager in the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability, reflects on participating in a week long training programme for the ‘European Students, Sustainability Auditing’ Project. In late January, I travelled to the ‘City of Bridges’ to visit the University of Porto with colleagues from the Edinburgh University Students’ Association and the University […]
LGBT+ History Month and Time Warp, 2018
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/shca/lgbt-history-month-and-time-warp/
Student Ambassador Ruby reports on a busy February for the School’s Societies. February has been a busy month here at the University – particularly for History, Classics and Archaeology students! Not only have we had the Staff-Student Pub Quiz and the History and Classics Society trips, but it’s also been LGBT+ History Month and RAG […]
Talking agile usability at UCISA 2016 conference
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/talking-agile-usability-at-ucisa-2016-conference/
This year’s UCISA conference is being held in Manchester from 16 to 18 March. I’m contributing a ‘university showcase’ in which I’ll talk through how we use collaborative usability testing as part of our development processes. Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association is a bit of an unappealing mouthful, so most people just say UCISA […]
COVID-19 and the Edinburgh congestion charge V
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/roythompson/2020/07/18/covid-19-and-the-edinburgh-congestion-charge-v/
Environmental impact of the Covid19 lockdown on air pollution – a short video Summary Video produced as part of the EVERYONE project charting NO2 pollution across Scotland during the Covid19 lockdown. The many features to be seen in the video are caused by a combination of anthropogenic emissions, meterorlogical events and the COVID-19 outbreak. […]
COVID-19 and Long Term Care
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ectu_ehe/2020/07/06/covid-19-and-ltc/
Our Research Fellow, Elizabeth Lemmon, has been contributing to several reports on the impact of COVID-19 within the long term care (LTC) system in Scotland and around the world, with colleagues from the University of Stirling, Edinburgh Napier University, London School of Economics and the Bruyère Research Institute. These reports are being produced for the […]
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