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The Use of Sport Initiatives to Promote Human Rights in Palestine
This post, by Asil Said, first appeared on the University of Edinburgh’s Academy of Sport blog, Sport Matters. Academy of Sport Director, Professor Grant Jarvie, is a member of the Global Justice Academy Management Group. Books and Boxers and the Right to Movement are but two interventions aiming to make a difference to the lives of youth in […]
How did the number of deaf children change in the NHS Lothian area over 2019 – 2024?
We know that hundreds of deaf children were late diagnosed in the NHS Lothian area, many severely late so they experienced language deprivation. Here we look at the statistics collected using the CRIDE Survey. This is an annual survey completed by the heads of local authority services for deaf children and returned to CRIDE, the […]
Access to Orphan Medicinal Products: Equity, Affordability, and the Role of Regulation
Introduction In December 1999, the European Commission adopted the Orphan Regulation to promote the research and development of orphan medicinal products (OMPs) for the diagnosis, prevention or treatment of a rare disease. The Orphan Regulation can be understood as an attempt to improve health equity, as it provides the pharmaceutical industry with financial incentives to […]
Alumni Stories: Lauryn Mwale
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/mathematics/2024/07/25/alumni-stories-lauryn-mwale/
Lauryn shares her memories from her time studying Mathematics at Edinburgh and how it shaped her next steps, achievements and career in Business Strategy. Programme BSc (Hons) Mathematics Year of graduation 2021 Job title Associate – Business Strategy Industry Asset Management Home country Zambia Why did you decide to study Maths at the […]
Food for thought: taste, smell and flavour
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/smartsense/2024/08/29/food-for-thought-taste-smell-and-flavour/
Eating and drinking are a truly multisensory experience – flavour occurs when input from all senses is combined. Not just from two or three senses; like when admiring the sea or the botanical garden; when skiing on a cold winter day; or when playing with a kitten or a puppy. (See our blog for Multisensory […]
Spotlight on ATR-X syndrome for Rare Disease Day 2025
Image: Brothers Benjamin, seven, and Gabriel, three, both have ATR-X syndrome By Rebekah Tillotson, Chancellor’s Fellow at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer With Ben Harris and Jennifer Martinez-Harris, ATRX Research Alliance (a parent-led global group of families committed to accelerating research) ATR-X (Alpha-thalassemia X-linked intellectual disability) syndrome is a rare genetic disorder that affects […]
Unexpected file server problems on the 19th of June
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/infcos/2013/07/18/unexpected-file-server-problems-on-the-19th-of-june/
In the late afternoon of Wednesday 19th of June, around 4:50pm, there was an unexpected glitch on the Informatics SAN (Storage Area Network). This caused some of our AFS storage to go offline for several hours. What follows is a recap of the event, and what we did to recover from it. Background First a […]
GUEST BLOG: Youth Diplomacy in Action at the first Scottish Model Arctic Council
By Eric Zaja, BSc Ecological and Environmental Science My name is Erica Zaja and I’m a final Year Ecological and Environmental Sciences (EES) with Management student. I’m from Venice, Italy, but I have now been living in Edinburgh for 4 years. I’m a passionate ecologist, interested in the impacts of climate change on ecosystems. I […]
MINUTES: 04/02/2025 - First workshop with Dave ideation -> conception -> output
We first went to the wrong room, once we found each other, we moved some tables around to make a good thinking environment. Dave gave us creative challenges on the concept of time: How could you visually represent sayings about time? How to visually represent different moments in our own life? How to visually represent […]
The dilemma of peace education
I like to try to solve all issues at once. This week, I turned to peace education in the hope for answers. After all, peace education comes with the promise to eliminate human suffering, right? Take UNESCO’s definition of ‘peace’ taken from the UNESCO Recommendation on Education for Peace and Human Rights, International Understanding, Cooperation, […]
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