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Redesigning Design teaching

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/redesigning-design-teaching/

In this post, Sarah Dunn discusses her experience of working across three Schools, with Tara Capel, Dorsey Kaufmann and Theodore Koterwas, with the aim of learning from each other to redesign two Design courses in the School of Informatics. This post is part of the Student Partnership Agreement 2025 series. As a long time member of […]


Archives abound in Archives Unbound

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/archives-abound-in-archives-unbound/

Exciting major online primary source database now available at the Library. I’m really pleased to let you know that the Library has got a 1-year subscription to the fantastic primary source database Archives Unbound from Gale Cengage. Archives Unbound currently has 265 collections of primary source material, with new collections added every year. It is […]


New Publications on Ancient Fiscal History

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/caliphalfinances/2026/01/07/new-publications-on-ancient-fiscal-history/

Over the past year, the Caliphal Finances team has been reading newly published works and compiling a list of publications to explore that address taxation or broader fiscal matters in Egypt primarily and in the Islamic world to a lesser extent, between the sixth and the thirteenth centuries. This post highlights only a selection of […]


Salvesen Archive – 50 years at Edinburgh University Library – 1969-2019

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edinburghuniversityarchives/2019/05/08/salvesen-archive-50-years-at-edinburgh-university-library-1969-2019/

50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE CHRISTIAN SALVESEN & CO. ARCHIVE AT CRC – MARITIME TRADING AND WHALING MATERIAL 50 years ago in May 1969 former colleagues of the Centre for Research Collections had been busy collecting a large maritime trading and whaling archive from the offices of Christian Salvesen & Co. in Leith. […]


Collaboration

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/tilt/2024/06/02/collaboration/

The Toolkit for Interdisciplinary Learning and Teaching is now available as an e-book, published by Edinburgh Diamond in 2026. The published version can be accessed here. This is the original blog site, which is still available for ease of access.   Collaboration is an important, and often essential, part of interdisciplinary learning and teaching; it […]


Does the Journal Article have a future?

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edneuro/2026/02/02/42/

Last year, I had the honour of giving the Doug Altman Memorial Lecture at the Peer Review Congress in Chicago. As long ago as 1994, Doug famously wrote, ‘we need less research, better research, and research done for the right reasons’ (Altman, 1994). And so, I took as my theme, Does the Journal Article have […]


Sandra Tafadzwa Garwe

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/alumni-profiles/2026/03/17/sandra-tafadzwa-garwe/

Sandra is a public health and policy professional currently working at the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Zimbabwe where she supports the organisation’s HIV Prevention Programme and multi-disease diagnostics work. Alongside her role, she also runs a small education programme supporting students at universities across Zimbabwe. Name: Sandra Tafadzwa Garwe Degree course: MSc Global Health Policy […]


History Society Through the Years: The Vibrant 60s

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/history-society-120-anniversary-alumni-testimonies/2022/08/09/history-society-through-the-years-the-vibrant-60s/

  Ian Gordon Brown Dr Iain Gordon Brown studied History at the University of Edinburgh between 1968 and 1972. He served as the President of the History Society throughout the academic year 1971/72. After continuing his academic career at St John’s College, Cambridge, Iain eventually returned to Edinburgh to lecture in the University’s former Department […]


Nudge in user experience

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/nudge-in-user-experience/

Over the summer we have had the wonderful opportunity to work with Annika Sybrandy, our Behavioural Insights (Nudge) Intern. There are lots of parallels between behavioural science and human-centred approaches. Nudge models give us the opportunity to bring an extra level of formality to our approaches. Annika has previously published two blog posts introducing some […]


Lessons on independence, isolation, and procrastination

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/lessons-on-independence-isolation-and-procrastination/

In this post for September’s theme on the “Student experience of learning remotely and digitally”, Ana Diaz Vidal and Jessica O’Loughlin offer profound reflections on what the few months of lockdown taught them: from navigating the fine line between independence and isolation to developing an awareness on procrastination… I am a student, I went through […]


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