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#CelebratingTogether: Dr Crispin Jordan
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/learningexchange/2021/03/28/celebratingtogether-dr-crispin-jordan/
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? Crispin Jordan What is your job title? Lecturer What school or service do […]
Notes On Context, Form and Narrative
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s1552694_art-practice-3-2020-2021yr/2020/11/09/189/
“In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed into beliefs, ideas take their place in time, take shape as events: the trajectory is complete, from logic to epilepsy . . . whence the birth of ideologies, doctrines, deadly games. Idolaters by […]
Analysing UK Suicide Prevention Policy: A Critical Policy Analysis
This post is by Alex Oaten, the Lincoln based Research Associate on the Suicide in/as Politics project. You can find out more about all the team on our People page! As part of our Leverhulme funded ‘Suicide in/as Politics’ project we have undertaken in-depth qualitative analysis of UK suicide prevention policies, which were produced between 2009-2019. Whilst suicide prevention policies have come to be […]
Semester 2 Reflection
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/cooperative-learning-course/2019/05/08/semester-2-reflection/
Reflection on Semester 2 : Future of Our University Over the course of the second semester there was a push to finalise the course. This has given everyone lots of time to reflect on the many different workshops and sessions that took place over the final months. For this reflection I will continue the themes […]
Working as a student: how, why and where
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/geosciences/2020/06/working-as-a-student-how-why-and-where/
By Alex, BSc Geology and Physical Geography For many students, working part time is a great way to make living in Edinburgh more affordable. As someone coming to Edinburgh after living in a small town for most of my life, I noticed a massive increase in variety of work that you can do when your […]
Why we need quantitative sports history
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sport-matters/2020/02/16/why-we-need-quantitative-sports-history/
By Professor Wray Vamplew University of Edinburgh Individuals are important in sport but sports history should be more concerned with the collective and the countable. The biography of golfer Harry Vardon, the Tiger Woods of his day, contributes to the understanding of an early champion golfer troubled by tuberculosis and marital difficulties. Although interesting, it […]
Sport for peace in a post- conflict Colombia
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/sport-matters/2015/08/13/sport-for-peace-in-a-post-conflict-colombia/
By Dr Alexander Cárdenas, PhD If properly managed and articulated, sport could make a modest, yet tangible contribution to Colombia’s post-conflict era. Colombia has experienced the longest-running internal conflict in the Western hemisphere. Extending for fifty years, the confrontation between government forces, guerillas and paramilitaries has caused a profound fragmentation of society and a devastating […]
Fresh winds for equity in the beautiful game but challenges remain
By Grant Jarvie – University of Edinburgh Almost four years ago the Academy of Sport was invited to contribute to the then calls for reform in world soccer and support for women’s soccer. A summary of the contribution can be found here. The case for support focused upon two key themes. Firstly, that women were under-represented […]
Thoughts on the UK Research and Development Roadmap
In today’s blog Sophie Lowry, Strategic Research Executive at Edinburgh Research Office writes about the UK Government’s Research and Development roadmap. It continues to be a busy year for research policy announcements. In early July, the UK Government released its long awaited Research and Development roadmap. This 60-page document upholds the UK Government’s budget promise […]
Reflective Analysis
“Weird Studies” is a scholarly field that doesn’t and can’t exist. The Weird is that which resists any settled explanation or frame of reference. It is the bulging file labelled “other/misc.” in our mental filing cabinet, full of supernatural entities, magical synchronicities, and occult rites. But it also appears when a work of art breaks […]
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