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Card sorting has informed a new information architecture for Learn courses
Card sorting has allowed us to better understand how students expect information to be grouped in Learn. Following on from the top tasks survey, card sorting was the next user research study in our programme building up the elements of a better user experience in Learn. Top tasks surveys have identified what really matters to […]
Agency within the Archive; how the representation of Indian women worked to rationalise colonial strategies of surveillance.
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/dh2021-22/welcome/text-analysis/megan/
by Megan Clarke The Medical History of British India contains information regarding the institutional presence of the lock hospitals, delineating the different strategies adopted for the treatment and control of venereal disease from 1873 to 1891. The digitised archive exposes how the various methods of treatment and control disproportionately targeted Indian women, and […]
Qur’an Burning Incidents in Sweden
Anna Grasso (UK Team and Website data analysis) Gary R Bunt (UK Team and Website data analysis) One of the objectives of the DigitIslam project is to capture and analyse online data related to current events affecting the Muslim community in our respective countries (United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain, Poland and Lithuania) during the project’s duration […]
#CelebratingTogether: Mona Alqassim
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/learningexchange/2021/03/27/celebratingtogether-mona-alqassim/
Edinburgh University Students’ Association’s Student-Led Teaching Awards are back to recognise outstanding members of learning and support staff. After a challenging year for everyone, we’re celebrating our worthy nominees by shouting about their successes across our digital platforms. What is your full name? Mona Yahya Alqassim What school or service do you work in? School of […]
Pictures of Surrey A report on my talk “The Press in the Garden. Rediscovering Frances Burney’s Surrey” (Leatherhead Library, 25 October 2022)
by Fran Saggini is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0. Based on a work at https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/fsaggini/?p=193. The Press in the Garden REPORT Let us imagine for a moment what would have happened if Frances Burney had had her own Chawton House or Haworth parsonage. A location and a house to […]
Network members
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ecotranslation-network/network-members/
Dr habil. Anna Barcz [Ba:tʃ] is trained as a philosopher and literary scholar interested in developing resilient ecological knowledge in humanities. She currently works as an Assistant Professor at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw); she was the MSCA Fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub (Dublin 2018-2019), and Rachel […]
Scottish Trust Law Reform and the Role for the Courts
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/private-law/2023/09/26/scottish-trust-law-reform-and-the-role-for-the-courts/
by Daniel J. Carr, Senior Lecturer in Private Law, Edinburgh Law School A. INTRODUCTION Change is coming to trusts law in Scotland. November 2022 saw the introduction of the Trusts and Succession (Bill) (“the Bill”) in the Scottish Parliament, and on 15th September 2023 the Delegated Powers and Reform Committee (“the Committee”) published its broadly […]
' On Human Alert' -v- ‘Trees, Teapots, Tigers and Teenagers’
Exploring ‘The Logic of Human Equality’, in his second Gifford Lecture Professor Waldron delved tonight into the technical framework that he saw as an essential pre-requisite of developing in his remaining lectures a coherent and robust validation of the essence of ‘basic human equality’. Description and Prescription Professor Waldron began by distinguishing between the ‘descriptive’ […]
Don't Try This At Home
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/itiltattle/2019/11/01/dont-try-this-at-home/
What is a Service? The ITIL definition, if you’re not familiar with it, is about co-creating value by “facilitating outcomes customers want to achieve, but without the ownership of specific costs and risks”. The first time I read this, it threw me a little. I thought to myself: “The way this is written, it makes […]
Why nature and nurture matter when it comes to our health
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/generation-scotland/2021/08/13/nature-vs-nurture/
Generation Scotland tackles important questions about health risk. What matters most: nature (genetic and biological factors) or nurture (environmental and social factors)? With rare exceptions, the evidence almost always points to a combination of both. Here’s why. Some medical conditions really are only down to genetics. We know of about 5,000 different examples. Most are […]
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