Ada Lovelace Day was on the 14th of October this year.  We’ve been celebrating her day here in IS for a decade now (long before I joined IS) and this year, like the last 2 years, I was on the organising team for our celebration.  This year we had an …

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. For Ada Lovelace Day 2025, Jackie, Magda and Stewart created the ‘Interactive Women in STEM tour’ game for everyone to play.

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. For Ada Lovelace Day 2025 I created a colouring-in illustration of Moira Dunbar (1918-1999), the pioneering Scottish-Canadian glaciologist and Arctic sea-ice researcher.

This post is the second written by LLB student Dervla Craig who has worked as our Information and Data Literacy intern this Summer researching and preparing a National Lottery Heritage Fund bid to preserve, and raise public engagement with, the accused witches of Scotland as an important part of Scotland’s heritage. As I sit to […]

This post will be about the upgrade process and the experience I had when moved our Laravel apps from Ease to EntraID.   Introduction The University of Edinburg has made a decision to move away from EASE (Cosign) SSO users authentication to EntraID (Azure – Microsoft). This meant to us that all the applications we […]

I don’t really understand how we got to the end of August (well, nearly) already. It feels like minutes ago we were welcoming the summer in with our new intern cohort and today is the day that most of our summer internships finish. I can’t tell you how much I …

  Hi, I’m Hera, the Data Visualization Intern working on the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Data Dashboards. Before getting into this internship, data had already been a fundamental part of my life. As an undergraduate student studying Psychology and Linguistics, statistics is part of the core of what we do. We’ve been taught how to […]

Challenging conventional funding structures to include intersectionally underrepresented casualised academics. The Interactive Content team help launch a new digital comic resource.

The new short course platform is alive! First thing you might ask is ‘What is a short course?’. Well, these are courses that enable learners around the world to gain a new skills, expand their interests in a topic, or fulfil professional development needs. Secondly, go have a look at the shiny new UoE developed […]

In my second month as the DLAM Digital Accessibility Intern, I’ve been contributing key accessibility and UX improvements to an open-source sheet music application. This blog describes how a GenAI workflow helped fast-track my understanding of Python coding, and allowed me to make impactful changes to an open-source project, through a process I call “Educated Prompting”.