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From masters dissertation to publication
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/postgradlife/masters-dissertation-to-publication/
Grace Lewis, a graduate of our Master of Public Health programme, shares her experience of writing a journal article from her masters dissertation. Having completed the MPH online programme in 2019, I was invited to write a blog post about the experience of writing a journal article from my masters dissertation. I hope to share […]
An Ode to Academia in the post-pandemic era: Ableism, (un)Seen (dis)Abilities & access-ability of Online Teaching
In this extra post, Avita tells us an important story about the benefits of post-pandemic adaptation to teaching and learning for academics with hidden disabilities, as flexibility in working spaces and schedules removed some barriers to learning. Avita Rath is a year 3 distance learning student (MSc Clinical Education↗️ ) at Edinburgh Medical School and […]
Welcome to Jan-Feb's Hot Topic theme: Through the Lens of Occupation
In this post, Dr Kirstin Stuart James introduces us to Jan-Feb’s Hot Topic theme: Through the Lens of Occupation. In this series, Kirstin offers a theoretical and situated reflection of perceiving our learning and teaching practices through the conceptual lens of ‘occupation’, drawing from her experiences as an academic and occupational therapist. In this first […]
Artificial intelligence and occupational disruption
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/artificial-intelligence-and-occupational-disruption/
In this blog post, Kirstin Stuart James discusses the potential health threats posed by the displacement of meaningful teaching occupations and advocates for a rights-based approach to ensure equity and inclusion in the AI-driven educational landscape. This post belongs to the Hot Topic series: Through the Lens of Occupation↗️. As introduced in previous blogs, occupational […]
Steps to a future vision for health and wellbeing in Higher Education
In this blog post, Kirstin Stuart James summarises the series and proposes five steps to envision the future of health and wellbeing in Higher Education by emphasizing a holistic consideration of teaching and learning occupations, transcending individual contexts, and being mindful of impacts on future generations of educators and learners. This post belongs to the […]
Promoting compassion and empathy across the University
https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/promoting-compassion-and-empathy-across-the-university/
In this extra post, Jessie, Joanna, and Lissette share their experience working on a PTAS↗️-funded project: Compassion and Empathy in Work and Life, highlighting how it contributed to the development of a self-directed course for students and staff. Dr Jessie Paterson retired in Dec 2022, and now holds an Honorary Fellowship. Dr Joanna Alexjuk and […]
Reflections on academic standards from the marking and assessment boycott
Image credit: unsplash, Jeswin Thomas, CC0 In this post, Dr Charlotte Desvages and Dr Itamar Kastner reflect on the notion of academic standards and its relationship with assessment and feedback, drawing on the events from the 2023 Marking and Assessment Boycott. Charlotte is a teaching Lecturer in Mathematical Computing, and Itamar is a Senior Lecturer […]
Contributing to open-source Drupal as a non-developer – reflections and projections
Drupal is the content management system underpinning EdWeb (and EdWeb2). It’s open source meaning it’s built by the community for the community. I’ve been contributing my UX expertise to Drupal since speaking at DrupalCon in 2022. Drupal’s just for developers, right? Wrong. When I first encountered Drupal in my role as UX lead on the […]
What’s gone wrong with universities? - A Provocation, by Gale Macleod
There can be little doubt that the Higher Education sector in the UK is in crisis. Here I argue that at least some of the responsibility for this lies with changing understandings of the purpose of a university education. In turn I see this as driven by two separate phenomena. First is the massification of […]
The black non-national: one international student’s perspective on life in Edinburgh
by Sienna, from the U.S.A., studying Clinical Psychology, 3rd year A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through […]
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