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Category: <span>Reflections</span>

International Women’s Day: A Reading List

Reading Time: 3 minutes Highlighting women’s experiences online To mark International Women’s Day (8 March) 2021, the Digital Skills team have created a Resource List (no login required, also available as a PDF download: IWD 2021 Reading List) comprising books, articles and essays seeking to empower women in the digital age and shed light …

Safer Internet Day 2021: #DigitalCitizen One Year On

Reading Time: 3 minutes A Year in Digital Safety To celebrate Safer Internet Day this year, I thought I’d look back on the first year of the University of Edinburgh’s Digital Safety and Citizenship initiative. In many ways, it’s been a year unlike any other, filled with hard lessons, disruption and adaptation. One beacon …

Blue Monday, Digital Wellbeing and LinkedIn Learning

Reading Time: 3 minutes Blue Monday Blues Today (18 January 2021) is Blue Monday and, considering how this January has gone so far, things feel, to me at least, just a little bit harder than they normally do at this time of year. I don’t think I’m alone in having pinned all my hopes …

On Digital Presenteeism, the Pandemic, and Precarity

Reading Time: 4 minutes The pressure to be “always on” A couple of weeks ago, I was in a Microsoft Teams hangout with some colleagues at the University when someone mentioned being tied to their emails more than ever before. “It’s like a new form of presenteeism,” my colleague said, “you’re expected to be …

Digital Safety for the New (Academic) Year

Reading Time: 4 minutes The start of something new I know it’s been a while since I’ve written on this blog. After posting at the beginning of the Covid-19 lockdown, it felt at once that digital safety had become more important than ever in our new “digital-first” world and yet that there was too …

Digital communities in trying times

Reading Time: 4 minutes Covid-19 has presented a unique challenge for the higher education sector A week ago today on 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recognised Covid-19 as a pandemic and I was just beginning to clock onto the severity of the situation. It seems rather naive now, but just seven …

Reflections on my first month as Digital Safety Support Officer

Reading Time: 3 minutes New Beginnings and Digital Skills Thoughts On my first weeks as the UoE’s new Digital Safety Support Officer It’s been a month since I started my job as the University of Edinburgh’s first Digital Safety Support Officer in the Digital Skills & Training Team at the Information Services Group (isn’t …

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