Ok, well not totally meaningless. But it certainly isn’t always the untouchable source of truth that is often perceived to be. My name is Otis Laundon, and throughout my Green Web Platforms internship I have focused so much on trying to find data. Data on energy usage, energy grid carbon intensity, and equipment manufacturing, to […]

  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 […]

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”.

I’m Tallulah, and this summer I am working as the Lecture Recording Data intern. My job involves working on ways to obtain and analyse data from lecture recordings.   Recording lectures has many benefits, which include improving accessibility by providing lectures in an alternative format, giving students a way to look back on previous lectures as […]

This post was written by LLB student Dervla Craig on her first month as Information and Data Literacy intern this Summer. My name is Dervla and I am going into my second year of the Graduate LLB at the University of Edinburgh. This summer I am doing a 12-week internship with the University’s Information Services […]

The question “what is the environmental impact of a digital service?” is very open ended. It’s hard to come up with a neat answer because there is just so much to consider. Even if we restrict our attention to carbon emissions (far from the only environmental impact that digital services have) the question is still […]

In this blog post, I write about what digital accessibility is, how we can make digital content more accessible, and why all of this matters in the first place. Also, this is a sort of diary of my first month as a Digital Accessibility Intern: what I have been up to, and my thoughts about various activities I have undertaken.

How do we measure web service emissions? is one of the questions that I have been hired to tackle. My name is Otis Laundon, and I’m the new Green Web Platforms Intern. My first 2 weeks in the office have been super enjoyable, from familiarising myself with our beloved Argyle House, to meeting some of […]

A guest blog post from one of our human-captioners, Ellie Kerr. Ellie joined us back in 2023 and is one of our original captioners – when we only had a team of 2. Now we have 20 part-time captioners who work on correcting automated captions across our lecture recordings and other media.   I never […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s finally here! The third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” colouring book has been in the works all summer, and is finally ready to be shared! This edition has been a huge group effort, and took a lot of collaboration from the Edinburgh community. Over a series of three workshops, UoE students, professors, […]