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<title>Lessons from the Aspiring Manager Programme: Beyond Managing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As part of my career development I started the Aspiring Manager Programme this past January with support from my line manager. The programme provides a framework to develop core management skills and behaviours to set aspiring managers up for success in future management roles. This post is a reflection of the programme following the core […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As part of my career development I started the Aspiring Manager Programme this past January with support from my line manager. The programme provides a framework to develop core management skills and behaviours to set aspiring managers up for success in future management roles. This post is a reflection of the programme following the core workshops.</p>
<h2>The Aspiring Manager Programme</h2>
<p>It runs 2 cohort intakes per academic year beginning in October and January and requires a nominating manager to support your application (usually your line manager). If interested, you can find further details through the <a href="https://human-resources.ed.ac.uk/learning-development/leadership-programmes/aspiring-manager">Aspiring Manager Programme dedicated web page.</a></p>
<p>The first phase of the programme involves attending an onboarding session, starting working on weekly prompts and attending the first of two main workshops. The weekly prompts feel like school home work but I have to admit that they are helpful to reflect on key topics about becoming a manager and successfully supporting a team.</p>
<p>During Workshop 1 we explored our motivations and management styles whereas Workshop 2 was dedicated to team development, constructive feedback and managing challenging conversations through real-world scenarios and role-playing activities. Not being a big fan of group activities I found them more interesting than I initially envisaged. The break up rooms had the right timing and length to avoid making them boring or annoying.</p>
<h2>Workshops Reflection: What is important as a good manager</h2>
<p>While reflecting about our management styles and what we consider important as a manager, some of the most cited ingredients were the ability to empower and support , fairness, creating a safe environment, clear communication and leading by example. The latter was clearly something important for most if not all the participants as future managers-leaders.</p>
<p>Workshop 2 addressed these core “ingredients” and was actually really good. One of the concepts that I liked as it matches my personal views about how I like to work although I did not know it had a name is “Psychological Safety”, a concept developed by Harvard professor Amy Edmondson. It refers to creating an open, safe and trusting environment for the staff, where they are allowed to speak up, admit mistakes, ask questions, and propose new ideas without fear of punishment or humiliation. The other element that I found of great importance is communication, not only to provide clear instructions but also when it comes down to having difficult conversations, coaching or supporting a team member. No matter how much you may know, it is never that easy, requiring constant practice to keep honing these skills. I think that getting this right is probably one of the most challenging parts of being a good manager and building high-performance teams.</p>
<p>On the other hand, while reflecting on the concept of leading by example, my attention was drawn to Japan as it has some of the most impressive examples of great leadership and leading by example, in particular, in the face of adversity. Some well known examples during periods of financial downturn are Nintendo´s President who chose to halve his salary to avoid laying off employees and preserve talent for future success and Japan Airlines CEO Haruka Nishimatsu who slashed his own salary and gave up executive perks during 2007 and 2009 while the airline faced severe changes to recover from financial debt. He famously stated that if a leader doesn’t share the pain, they cannot expect the followers to endure it which sets a quite high benchmark for leadership solidarity. I would say this is key as a leader and/or manager to avoid an organizational disconnect that may likely impact performance and long term results.</p>
<h2>Final Thoughts</h2>
<p>We are used to think about management or being a manager as being responsible for the operational activity of the team, work planning, setting priorities, dealing with a wide range of issues, supporting team members and dealing with People & Money for multiple administrative tasks (which may likely include screaming time to time). <span style="font-size: 1rem;">At some point during the activities, I defined a team as a living organism, where every member has its particularities, and hence requiring constant adjustment or fine tuning aka management from a manager in order to achieve a suitable balance. Like a garden with different plants, each one displaying different qualities, requiring different nutrients, water intake and sun in order to thrive. </span>Through the different conversations with other participants and my peer group, it unfolds that, as a manager you manage tasks, but you also lead people and the best way to lead is by showing (leading by example). It turns out that one of the most important things a manager can do isn’t “managing” at all—it’s leading by example, otherwise, none of the other elements involving being a manager may have the expected results.</p>
<p>As we progress into the final part of this adventure, it is time to reflect about the most important lessons I have learned as this is that last activity for us before being able to complete the course.</p>
<p>If you are considering joining the programme, go for it. I get bored quite easily and thought it may be just another boring set of activities and now I have to admit that it is actually a really good experience plus the facilitator is brilliant so I strongly recommend it.</p>
<p>What does good management look like to you?</p>
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<title>How to survive and pass the ITIL 4 Foundation exam</title>
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<description><![CDATA[I recently attended the ITIL 4 Foundation training course organised by ISG and successfully passed the exam. Here’s some thoughts about my experience and some tips that I learned while studying for the exam. This is a 3 days in-person course that prepares attendees for the ITIL exam. It was delivered by a training partner […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently attended the ITIL 4 Foundation training course organised by ISG and successfully passed the exam. Here’s some thoughts about my experience and some tips that I learned while studying for the exam.</p>
<p>This is a 3 days in-person course that prepares attendees for the ITIL exam. It was delivered by a training partner of Axelos who managed to turn a usually dry content into a set of engaging sessions with the help of timely coffee breaks.</p>
<p>As part of my role in DLAM, we currently implement ITIL practices and I was eager to learn more about ITIL so that I could better support the different services using best practices.</p>
<h4>My experience in 30 seconds</h4>
<p>I found the course really useful to have a better understanding of ITIL framework and key concepts. ITIL also helps to understand why UniDesk works the way it does here at the University. Another positive from the course was to meet and interact with other staff involved in ITIL practices.</p>
<p>The main downside is that by the end of each day everyone’s brain is saturated with information and no matter how much I like processes and workflows…it is a lot of to take in. On the other hand, the quizzes and mock exams that are introduced throughout the training sessions are really good to review, reflect on the concepts and refresh the brain.</p>
<h4>Main Tips and Takeaways</h4>
<p><strong>Before the course</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Consider checking some ITIL courses available on Linkedin Learning to get a grasp of the basic concepts if you are not familiar with the ITIL framework.</li>
<li>Consider buying a revision guide. I bought the ITIL Foundation Essentials by Claire Agutter (there are different guides so check and decide which one you like it better) and found it very useful before the course and specially once completed to easily review the concepts (ie on the bus) instead of login into the course content platform.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>During the course</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Ask questions</li>
<li>Add notes (the course platform allows to easily add notes)</li>
<li>Get proper sleep (if possible)</li>
<li>Bring your own coffee in the morning in case catering is delayed</li>
<li>Bring layers as you never know how cold or warm you may feel the room</li>
</ul>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>After the course (Exam prep)</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Learn the terminology. There are multiple questions in the exam about key concepts definitions.</li>
<li>Understand the relationships between ITIL concepts.</li>
<li>Review the Mock Exams (you can find additional mock exams online) and practice until you are able to consistently achieve the desired mark.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Tips for the online exam</strong></p>
<p>The ITIL® Foundation exam consists of 40 multiple-choice questions that must be completed within 60 minutes.</p>
<p>The online exam is an online proctored exam. It felt weird having someone “overseeing” you but without actually seeing them. However, once I started the exam I was fully focused on the questions and this was not an issue.</p>
<ul>
<li>Make sure that you take the exam in a suitable room (ie: the room should only have one door and your camera needs to show that door, my understanding is that if you have two doors, they have to be in view)</li>
<li>Wherever you are taking the exam, ensure no one open the doors while you take the exam</li>
<li>You will need to keep a clean desk and cover any extra monitors (you need to show it with your webcam)</li>
<li>The proctor will gently review that all the requirements are met for the room, reading the requirements feels worst than it its (ie: I had to cover my two monitors while using just the laptop to take the exam)</li>
<li>Read carefully the questions, don’t rush.</li>
<li>If you get stuck on a test question, move on and come back later</li>
<li>Keep an eye on the clock however, I can assure you that you will have plenty of time.</li>
<li>Learn the key definitions and watch out for certain keywords (this would help you connect the wording to the right concept)</li>
<li>Book your exam (important thing to remember!)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Conclusion</h4>
<p>Do I recommend the course if you are interested in ITIL, IT or Service Management? Yes!</p>
<p>I took the exam on Monday after completing the course the previous Friday.</p>
<p>We were advised to let the content sink during the weekend and schedule the exam from Sunday on wards and not more than 1 week after completing the course so that we still have the concepts fresh in the mind. I practiced the mock exams a few times until being consistent at getting at least 30 out of 40 and…I got more than 30 in the exam <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
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<title>AI, Instructional Design and Midjourney</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the tools that got my attention a while ago is Midjourney as a result of noticing astonishing images made by an artist I know. I only started using it recently and I have been surprised by the potential it has and at the same time it has forced me to think about the […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the tools that got my attention a while ago is Midjourney as a result of noticing astonishing images made by an artist I know.</p>
<p>I only started using it recently and I have been surprised by the potential it has and at the same time it has forced me to think about the pros and cons of AI.</p>
<p>It is described by its creators as by its creators as “text-to-image AI where your imagination is the only limit”. One of the things I was curious about is the possibility to use Midjourney to create specific images that could be use in online courses or as feature images in posts as I sometimes struggle to find the right image.</p>
<p>I got myself a basic account to do some tests and I have selected some of the Midjourney generated images below to illustrate this post and the featured image.</p>
<p>As an instructional designer, part of the job may involve creating or editing certain creative assets. Most of the Authoring eLearning tools would nowadays provide access to a library of images, yet sometimes you may need something very specific. Same applies for blogs, there are a good number of bank photos but you may not always find what you want or you may spend too much time scrolling through a content library.</p>
<h3>Creating an image for an online course</h3>
<p>Let’s say that I need an angry dinosaur having a discussion to illustrate a conflict management slide for a course…</p>
<p><strong>Prompt:</strong> angry customer with a dinosaur face discussing with a customer assistant, v 5.1 –style raw</p>
<p>If you look at the woman’s character, do you notice some strange things? The pen seems to be floating, the elbow and the hand are a bit odd.</p>
<p>And…the dinosaur body is…well…interesting.</p>
<p>This was the first attempt at this prompt which shows some of the AI limitations at the moment. Usually, by iteration and clarifying the instructions within the prompt, the image can get closer to the idea I had in mind although there is a high chance that it may still require some manual editing. On the positive side, if there is no similar image via the image bank, this can be very helpful.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face_discussing_with__693c87f4-6ee4-4d49-8993-22e400cf358d_0-300x300.png" alt="angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face_discussing_with__693c87f4-6ee4-4d49-8993-22e400cf358d_0-300x300.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face_discussing_with__693c87f4-6ee4-4d49-8993-22e400cf358d_0-150x150.png 150w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face_discussing_with__693c87f4-6ee4-4d49-8993-22e400cf358d_0-768x768.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face_discussing_with__693c87f4-6ee4-4d49-8993-22e400cf358d_0.png 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Created with Midjourney</span></p>
<h3>Creating a flat illustration</h3>
<p>Now, using a more elaborated prompt to create a flat illustration, the result was not bad although it took a few iterations to get something that I was satisfied with. Still, the right arm looks like a bit strange to me.</p>
<p><strong>Prompt:</strong> Discover the world of scientific exploration with this flat illustration featuring a chemist wearing glasses, with a smile and happy eyes, diligently working in a research laboratory. Engaged in experiments, she skillfully handles a [object that is used]. This minimalist UI illustration, perfect for GUI applications, boasts a clean white background and a bright color scheme that highlights the focus and determination of the scientist. Immerse yourself in the pursuit of knowledge and celebrate the passion for discovery in this vibrant and engaging visual representation.–ar 1:1 –v 5 –s 100</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-21" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_Discover_the_world_of_scientific_exploration_with_th_3e40d1d4-b449-436c-ac7a-a03fc5b90a92_2-300x300.png" alt="chemist_in_laboratory_flat_illustration" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_Discover_the_world_of_scientific_exploration_with_th_3e40d1d4-b449-436c-ac7a-a03fc5b90a92_2-300x300.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_Discover_the_world_of_scientific_exploration_with_th_3e40d1d4-b449-436c-ac7a-a03fc5b90a92_2-150x150.png 150w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_Discover_the_world_of_scientific_exploration_with_th_3e40d1d4-b449-436c-ac7a-a03fc5b90a92_2-768x768.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_Discover_the_world_of_scientific_exploration_with_th_3e40d1d4-b449-436c-ac7a-a03fc5b90a92_2.png 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Created with Midjourney</span></p>
<p> </p>
<h3>The fun side of AI</h3>
<p>So far, I have found being able to communicate with AI fascinating. It can be exciting when you manage to create a prompt that returns what you expected or frustrating when you get just the opposite and even funny when you look at some of the results based on not good enough prompts or the AI not quite understanding what you meant in your prompt (as you may note looking at the image below!).</p>
<p><strong>Prompt</strong>: funny t-rex dinosaur, working as it support with headphones sitting in a chair in front of a computer, cartoon style, happy face, with scottish kilt ,v 5.1 –style raw –</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-20" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_a_sco_7a10e2a8-157e-4fdb-a78a-fa28ac0cb4a0_3-300x300.png" alt="funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_scottish_kilt" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_a_sco_7a10e2a8-157e-4fdb-a78a-fa28ac0cb4a0_3-300x300.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_a_sco_7a10e2a8-157e-4fdb-a78a-fa28ac0cb4a0_3-150x150.png 150w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_a_sco_7a10e2a8-157e-4fdb-a78a-fa28ac0cb4a0_3-768x768.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_a_sco_7a10e2a8-157e-4fdb-a78a-fa28ac0cb4a0_3.png 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Created with Midjourney</span></p>
<p>Like many radical innovations, the fear is for a potentially good tool to end up being used in a harmful way. It feels like a tsunami and either you sink or you ride the wave. I believe that, a good starting point, is to have a better understanding of its advantages and limitations, so that we can work towards and ethical and safe use of AI.</p>
<h3>Thoughts about AI and Midjourney</h3>
<p>Some quick thoughts based on my initial experience (note that I am not an AI expert or a designer)</p>
<p><strong>Pros</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>You can create almost anything that you can conceive in your mind</li>
<li>It enhances your creativity by exposing you to creative options you may have not considered</li>
<li>It can speed up the creative process using AI as a starting point and then adding manual input to create the final artwork.</li>
<li>It can be used as inspiration, as creative prompts.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Cons</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Achieving a perfect image out of a prompt is not always possible, it requires iteration and often some final human touch.</li>
<li>Complexity of copyright ownership/infringement (in theory, there is no copyright in the “raw” outcome as there is no creative human input unless it is modified, there are risks based on regulations in different countries, changes in terms of service, existing images…)</li>
<li>Current controversy with copyright (it is worth reading <a href="http://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles/32083055291277-Terms-of-Service" class="broken_link">Midjourney Terms of Service </a> and to check or seek advice depending on the intended usage of the images, especially for commercial use)</li>
<li>Devaluation of manually created artwork</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Opportunities</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Learning how to communicate to AI and train it to help us</li>
<li>A powerful additional brain that can be used for good</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Challenges</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Data usage</li>
<li>Data waste as a result of the crazy amount of both good and awful content being generated.</li>
<li>Concerns about Midjourney stealing work .</li>
<li>Ensuring that we are able to establish ethical boundaries so that we do not end up fighting against Skynet like in Terminator!</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Lessons learnt</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Talking to AI is not so different than talking to humans (bear with me…). If you want AI or a human to understand you, you need to communicate the right way. Also, even if you use the right words, AI may not get what you ask for!</li>
<li>There is a learning curve, it can be frustrating and also good fun.</li>
<li>To achieve the best results, i would say that, at least at the moment, human input is required to edit what AI presents.</li>
<li>The key to create successful prompts is to use a positive language! If I want a “clear background”, the trick is adding “clear background” in the prompt rather than requesting “no dark background”. In essence, anything we may not want in the image, has to be changed into a positive keyword for Midjourney to better understand what we want.</li>
<li>It requires a good conversation regarding copyrights and commercial use of creative work produced in collaboration with AI tools.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Final thoughts</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Although this AI tool is pretty amazing from a creative perspective, I have found that it can be time consuming to design or adapt certain prompts (hence the rise of prompt designers). Therefore, I may have spent more time trying to achieve a decent image with the prompts than finding a good enough image through the image bank or image library. It is also likely that a prompt designer may be able to achieve better results in less time.</li>
<li>With the right knowledge and experience, it allows creating fascinating art and creative assets that otherwise, unless being an artist or a creative, may be near impossible to achieve.</li>
<li>It can be a complementary tool to create certain digital assets that may be difficult to find and may be used as a first draft before editing the image through human input.</li>
<li>There are some Midjourney users creating fascinating pieces of work however I don’t feel it is a tool that anyone can use to create a great creative asset in five minutes. Even knowing about prompt design, it seems that it requires some good skills to achieve really good outcomes.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p>If you feel like giving it a try you will need a Discord and Midjourney account. There are several good tutorials online in case you may want to give it a go.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[As part of my career development I started the Aspiring Manager Programme this past January with support from my line manager. The programme provides a framework to develop core management skills and behaviours to set aspiring managers up for success in future management roles. This post is a reflection of the programme following the core […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As part of my career development I started the Aspiring Manager Programme this past January with support from my line manager. The programme provides a framework to develop core management skills and behaviours to set aspiring managers up for success in future management roles. This post is a reflection of the programme following the core workshops.</p>
<h2>The Aspiring Manager Programme</h2>
<p>It runs 2 cohort intakes per academic year beginning in October and January and requires a nominating manager to support your application (usually your line manager). If interested, you can find further details through the <a href="https://human-resources.ed.ac.uk/learning-development/leadership-programmes/aspiring-manager">Aspiring Manager Programme dedicated web page.</a></p>
<p>The first phase of the programme involves attending an onboarding session, starting working on weekly prompts and attending the first of two main workshops. The weekly prompts feel like school home work but I have to admit that they are helpful to reflect on key topics about becoming a manager and successfully supporting a team.</p>
<p>During Workshop 1 we explored our motivations and management styles whereas Workshop 2 was dedicated to team development, constructive feedback and managing challenging conversations through real-world scenarios and role-playing activities. Not being a big fan of group activities I found them more interesting than I initially envisaged. The break up rooms had the right timing and length to avoid making them boring or annoying.</p>
<h2>Workshops Reflection: What is important as a good manager</h2>
<p>While reflecting about our management styles and what we consider important as a manager, some of the most cited ingredients were the ability to empower and support , fairness, creating a safe environment, clear communication and leading by example. The latter was clearly something important for most if not all the participants as future managers-leaders.</p>
<p>Workshop 2 addressed these core “ingredients” and was actually really good. One of the concepts that I liked as it matches my personal views about how I like to work although I did not know it had a name is “Psychological Safety”, a concept developed by Harvard professor Amy Edmondson. It refers to creating an open, safe and trusting environment for the staff, where they are allowed to speak up, admit mistakes, ask questions, and propose new ideas without fear of punishment or humiliation. The other element that I found of great importance is communication, not only to provide clear instructions but also when it comes down to having difficult conversations, coaching or supporting a team member. No matter how much you may know, it is never that easy, requiring constant practice to keep honing these skills. I think that getting this right is probably one of the most challenging parts of being a good manager and building high-performance teams.</p>
<p>On the other hand, while reflecting on the concept of leading by example, my attention was drawn to Japan as it has some of the most impressive examples of great leadership and leading by example, in particular, in the face of adversity. Some well known examples during periods of financial downturn are Nintendo´s President who chose to halve his salary to avoid laying off employees and preserve talent for future success and Japan Airlines CEO Haruka Nishimatsu who slashed his own salary and gave up executive perks during 2007 and 2009 while the airline faced severe changes to recover from financial debt. He famously stated that if a leader doesn’t share the pain, they cannot expect the followers to endure it which sets a quite high benchmark for leadership solidarity. I would say this is key as a leader and/or manager to avoid an organizational disconnect that may likely impact performance and long term results.</p>
<h2>Final Thoughts</h2>
<p>We are used to think about management or being a manager as being responsible for the operational activity of the team, work planning, setting priorities, dealing with a wide range of issues, supporting team members and dealing with People & Money for multiple administrative tasks (which may likely include screaming time to time). <span style="font-size: 1rem;">At some point during the activities, I defined a team as a living organism, where every member has its particularities, and hence requiring constant adjustment or fine tuning aka management from a manager in order to achieve a suitable balance. Like a garden with different plants, each one displaying different qualities, requiring different nutrients, water intake and sun in order to thrive. </span>Through the different conversations with other participants and my peer group, it unfolds that, as a manager you manage tasks, but you also lead people and the best way to lead is by showing (leading by example). It turns out that one of the most important things a manager can do isn’t “managing” at all—it’s leading by example, otherwise, none of the other elements involving being a manager may have the expected results.</p>
<p>As we progress into the final part of this adventure, it is time to reflect about the most important lessons I have learned as this is that last activity for us before being able to complete the course.</p>
<p>If you are considering joining the programme, go for it. I get bored quite easily and thought it may be just another boring set of activities and now I have to admit that it is actually a really good experience plus the facilitator is brilliant so I strongly recommend it.</p>
<p>What does good management look like to you?</p>
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<description><![CDATA[I recently attended the ITIL 4 Foundation training course organised by ISG and successfully passed the exam. Here’s some thoughts about my experience and some tips that I learned while studying for the exam. This is a 3 days in-person course that prepares attendees for the ITIL exam. It was delivered by a training partner […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently attended the ITIL 4 Foundation training course organised by ISG and successfully passed the exam. Here’s some thoughts about my experience and some tips that I learned while studying for the exam.</p>
<p>This is a 3 days in-person course that prepares attendees for the ITIL exam. It was delivered by a training partner of Axelos who managed to turn a usually dry content into a set of engaging sessions with the help of timely coffee breaks.</p>
<p>As part of my role in DLAM, we currently implement ITIL practices and I was eager to learn more about ITIL so that I could better support the different services using best practices.</p>
<h4>My experience in 30 seconds</h4>
<p>I found the course really useful to have a better understanding of ITIL framework and key concepts. ITIL also helps to understand why UniDesk works the way it does here at the University. Another positive from the course was to meet and interact with other staff involved in ITIL practices.</p>
<p>The main downside is that by the end of each day everyone’s brain is saturated with information and no matter how much I like processes and workflows…it is a lot of to take in. On the other hand, the quizzes and mock exams that are introduced throughout the training sessions are really good to review, reflect on the concepts and refresh the brain.</p>
<h4>Main Tips and Takeaways</h4>
<p><strong>Before the course</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Consider checking some ITIL courses available on Linkedin Learning to get a grasp of the basic concepts if you are not familiar with the ITIL framework.</li>
<li>Consider buying a revision guide. I bought the ITIL Foundation Essentials by Claire Agutter (there are different guides so check and decide which one you like it better) and found it very useful before the course and specially once completed to easily review the concepts (ie on the bus) instead of login into the course content platform.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>During the course</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Ask questions</li>
<li>Add notes (the course platform allows to easily add notes)</li>
<li>Get proper sleep (if possible)</li>
<li>Bring your own coffee in the morning in case catering is delayed</li>
<li>Bring layers as you never know how cold or warm you may feel the room</li>
</ul>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>After the course (Exam prep)</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Learn the terminology. There are multiple questions in the exam about key concepts definitions.</li>
<li>Understand the relationships between ITIL concepts.</li>
<li>Review the Mock Exams (you can find additional mock exams online) and practice until you are able to consistently achieve the desired mark.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Tips for the online exam</strong></p>
<p>The ITIL® Foundation exam consists of 40 multiple-choice questions that must be completed within 60 minutes.</p>
<p>The online exam is an online proctored exam. It felt weird having someone “overseeing” you but without actually seeing them. However, once I started the exam I was fully focused on the questions and this was not an issue.</p>
<ul>
<li>Make sure that you take the exam in a suitable room (ie: the room should only have one door and your camera needs to show that door, my understanding is that if you have two doors, they have to be in view)</li>
<li>Wherever you are taking the exam, ensure no one open the doors while you take the exam</li>
<li>You will need to keep a clean desk and cover any extra monitors (you need to show it with your webcam)</li>
<li>The proctor will gently review that all the requirements are met for the room, reading the requirements feels worst than it its (ie: I had to cover my two monitors while using just the laptop to take the exam)</li>
<li>Read carefully the questions, don’t rush.</li>
<li>If you get stuck on a test question, move on and come back later</li>
<li>Keep an eye on the clock however, I can assure you that you will have plenty of time.</li>
<li>Learn the key definitions and watch out for certain keywords (this would help you connect the wording to the right concept)</li>
<li>Book your exam (important thing to remember!)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Conclusion</h4>
<p>Do I recommend the course if you are interested in ITIL, IT or Service Management? Yes!</p>
<p>I took the exam on Monday after completing the course the previous Friday.</p>
<p>We were advised to let the content sink during the weekend and schedule the exam from Sunday on wards and not more than 1 week after completing the course so that we still have the concepts fresh in the mind. I practiced the mock exams a few times until being consistent at getting at least 30 out of 40 and…I got more than 30 in the exam <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the tools that got my attention a while ago is Midjourney as a result of noticing astonishing images made by an artist I know. I only started using it recently and I have been surprised by the potential it has and at the same time it has forced me to think about the […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the tools that got my attention a while ago is Midjourney as a result of noticing astonishing images made by an artist I know.</p>
<p>I only started using it recently and I have been surprised by the potential it has and at the same time it has forced me to think about the pros and cons of AI.</p>
<p>It is described by its creators as by its creators as “text-to-image AI where your imagination is the only limit”. One of the things I was curious about is the possibility to use Midjourney to create specific images that could be use in online courses or as feature images in posts as I sometimes struggle to find the right image.</p>
<p>I got myself a basic account to do some tests and I have selected some of the Midjourney generated images below to illustrate this post and the featured image.</p>
<p>As an instructional designer, part of the job may involve creating or editing certain creative assets. Most of the Authoring eLearning tools would nowadays provide access to a library of images, yet sometimes you may need something very specific. Same applies for blogs, there are a good number of bank photos but you may not always find what you want or you may spend too much time scrolling through a content library.</p>
<h3>Creating an image for an online course</h3>
<p>Let’s say that I need an angry dinosaur having a discussion to illustrate a conflict management slide for a course…</p>
<p><strong>Prompt:</strong> angry customer with a dinosaur face discussing with a customer assistant, v 5.1 –style raw</p>
<p>If you look at the woman’s character, do you notice some strange things? The pen seems to be floating, the elbow and the hand are a bit odd.</p>
<p>And…the dinosaur body is…well…interesting.</p>
<p>This was the first attempt at this prompt which shows some of the AI limitations at the moment. Usually, by iteration and clarifying the instructions within the prompt, the image can get closer to the idea I had in mind although there is a high chance that it may still require some manual editing. On the positive side, if there is no similar image via the image bank, this can be very helpful.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face_discussing_with__693c87f4-6ee4-4d49-8993-22e400cf358d_0-300x300.png" alt="angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face_discussing_with__693c87f4-6ee4-4d49-8993-22e400cf358d_0-300x300.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face_discussing_with__693c87f4-6ee4-4d49-8993-22e400cf358d_0-150x150.png 150w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face_discussing_with__693c87f4-6ee4-4d49-8993-22e400cf358d_0-768x768.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face_discussing_with__693c87f4-6ee4-4d49-8993-22e400cf358d_0.png 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Created with Midjourney</span></p>
<h3>Creating a flat illustration</h3>
<p>Now, using a more elaborated prompt to create a flat illustration, the result was not bad although it took a few iterations to get something that I was satisfied with. Still, the right arm looks like a bit strange to me.</p>
<p><strong>Prompt:</strong> Discover the world of scientific exploration with this flat illustration featuring a chemist wearing glasses, with a smile and happy eyes, diligently working in a research laboratory. Engaged in experiments, she skillfully handles a [object that is used]. This minimalist UI illustration, perfect for GUI applications, boasts a clean white background and a bright color scheme that highlights the focus and determination of the scientist. Immerse yourself in the pursuit of knowledge and celebrate the passion for discovery in this vibrant and engaging visual representation.–ar 1:1 –v 5 –s 100</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-21" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_Discover_the_world_of_scientific_exploration_with_th_3e40d1d4-b449-436c-ac7a-a03fc5b90a92_2-300x300.png" alt="chemist_in_laboratory_flat_illustration" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_Discover_the_world_of_scientific_exploration_with_th_3e40d1d4-b449-436c-ac7a-a03fc5b90a92_2-300x300.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_Discover_the_world_of_scientific_exploration_with_th_3e40d1d4-b449-436c-ac7a-a03fc5b90a92_2-150x150.png 150w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_Discover_the_world_of_scientific_exploration_with_th_3e40d1d4-b449-436c-ac7a-a03fc5b90a92_2-768x768.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_Discover_the_world_of_scientific_exploration_with_th_3e40d1d4-b449-436c-ac7a-a03fc5b90a92_2.png 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Created with Midjourney</span></p>
<p> </p>
<h3>The fun side of AI</h3>
<p>So far, I have found being able to communicate with AI fascinating. It can be exciting when you manage to create a prompt that returns what you expected or frustrating when you get just the opposite and even funny when you look at some of the results based on not good enough prompts or the AI not quite understanding what you meant in your prompt (as you may note looking at the image below!).</p>
<p><strong>Prompt</strong>: funny t-rex dinosaur, working as it support with headphones sitting in a chair in front of a computer, cartoon style, happy face, with scottish kilt ,v 5.1 –style raw –</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-20" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_a_sco_7a10e2a8-157e-4fdb-a78a-fa28ac0cb4a0_3-300x300.png" alt="funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_scottish_kilt" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_a_sco_7a10e2a8-157e-4fdb-a78a-fa28ac0cb4a0_3-300x300.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_a_sco_7a10e2a8-157e-4fdb-a78a-fa28ac0cb4a0_3-150x150.png 150w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_a_sco_7a10e2a8-157e-4fdb-a78a-fa28ac0cb4a0_3-768x768.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_a_sco_7a10e2a8-157e-4fdb-a78a-fa28ac0cb4a0_3.png 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Created with Midjourney</span></p>
<p>Like many radical innovations, the fear is for a potentially good tool to end up being used in a harmful way. It feels like a tsunami and either you sink or you ride the wave. I believe that, a good starting point, is to have a better understanding of its advantages and limitations, so that we can work towards and ethical and safe use of AI.</p>
<h3>Thoughts about AI and Midjourney</h3>
<p>Some quick thoughts based on my initial experience (note that I am not an AI expert or a designer)</p>
<p><strong>Pros</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>You can create almost anything that you can conceive in your mind</li>
<li>It enhances your creativity by exposing you to creative options you may have not considered</li>
<li>It can speed up the creative process using AI as a starting point and then adding manual input to create the final artwork.</li>
<li>It can be used as inspiration, as creative prompts.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Cons</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Achieving a perfect image out of a prompt is not always possible, it requires iteration and often some final human touch.</li>
<li>Complexity of copyright ownership/infringement (in theory, there is no copyright in the “raw” outcome as there is no creative human input unless it is modified, there are risks based on regulations in different countries, changes in terms of service, existing images…)</li>
<li>Current controversy with copyright (it is worth reading <a href="http://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles/32083055291277-Terms-of-Service" class="broken_link">Midjourney Terms of Service </a> and to check or seek advice depending on the intended usage of the images, especially for commercial use)</li>
<li>Devaluation of manually created artwork</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Opportunities</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Learning how to communicate to AI and train it to help us</li>
<li>A powerful additional brain that can be used for good</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Challenges</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Data usage</li>
<li>Data waste as a result of the crazy amount of both good and awful content being generated.</li>
<li>Concerns about Midjourney stealing work .</li>
<li>Ensuring that we are able to establish ethical boundaries so that we do not end up fighting against Skynet like in Terminator!</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Lessons learnt</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Talking to AI is not so different than talking to humans (bear with me…). If you want AI or a human to understand you, you need to communicate the right way. Also, even if you use the right words, AI may not get what you ask for!</li>
<li>There is a learning curve, it can be frustrating and also good fun.</li>
<li>To achieve the best results, i would say that, at least at the moment, human input is required to edit what AI presents.</li>
<li>The key to create successful prompts is to use a positive language! If I want a “clear background”, the trick is adding “clear background” in the prompt rather than requesting “no dark background”. In essence, anything we may not want in the image, has to be changed into a positive keyword for Midjourney to better understand what we want.</li>
<li>It requires a good conversation regarding copyrights and commercial use of creative work produced in collaboration with AI tools.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Final thoughts</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Although this AI tool is pretty amazing from a creative perspective, I have found that it can be time consuming to design or adapt certain prompts (hence the rise of prompt designers). Therefore, I may have spent more time trying to achieve a decent image with the prompts than finding a good enough image through the image bank or image library. It is also likely that a prompt designer may be able to achieve better results in less time.</li>
<li>With the right knowledge and experience, it allows creating fascinating art and creative assets that otherwise, unless being an artist or a creative, may be near impossible to achieve.</li>
<li>It can be a complementary tool to create certain digital assets that may be difficult to find and may be used as a first draft before editing the image through human input.</li>
<li>There are some Midjourney users creating fascinating pieces of work however I don’t feel it is a tool that anyone can use to create a great creative asset in five minutes. Even knowing about prompt design, it seems that it requires some good skills to achieve really good outcomes.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p>If you feel like giving it a try you will need a Discord and Midjourney account. There are several good tutorials online in case you may want to give it a go.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[As part of my career development I started the Aspiring Manager Programme this past January with support from my line manager. The programme provides a framework to develop core management skills and behaviours to set aspiring managers up for success in future management roles. This post is a reflection of the programme following the core […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As part of my career development I started the Aspiring Manager Programme this past January with support from my line manager. The programme provides a framework to develop core management skills and behaviours to set aspiring managers up for success in future management roles. This post is a reflection of the programme following the core workshops.</p>
<h2>The Aspiring Manager Programme</h2>
<p>It runs 2 cohort intakes per academic year beginning in October and January and requires a nominating manager to support your application (usually your line manager). If interested, you can find further details through the <a href="https://human-resources.ed.ac.uk/learning-development/leadership-programmes/aspiring-manager">Aspiring Manager Programme dedicated web page.</a></p>
<p>The first phase of the programme involves attending an onboarding session, starting working on weekly prompts and attending the first of two main workshops. The weekly prompts feel like school home work but I have to admit that they are helpful to reflect on key topics about becoming a manager and successfully supporting a team.</p>
<p>During Workshop 1 we explored our motivations and management styles whereas Workshop 2 was dedicated to team development, constructive feedback and managing challenging conversations through real-world scenarios and role-playing activities. Not being a big fan of group activities I found them more interesting than I initially envisaged. The break up rooms had the right timing and length to avoid making them boring or annoying.</p>
<h2>Workshops Reflection: What is important as a good manager</h2>
<p>While reflecting about our management styles and what we consider important as a manager, some of the most cited ingredients were the ability to empower and support , fairness, creating a safe environment, clear communication and leading by example. The latter was clearly something important for most if not all the participants as future managers-leaders.</p>
<p>Workshop 2 addressed these core “ingredients” and was actually really good. One of the concepts that I liked as it matches my personal views about how I like to work although I did not know it had a name is “Psychological Safety”, a concept developed by Harvard professor Amy Edmondson. It refers to creating an open, safe and trusting environment for the staff, where they are allowed to speak up, admit mistakes, ask questions, and propose new ideas without fear of punishment or humiliation. The other element that I found of great importance is communication, not only to provide clear instructions but also when it comes down to having difficult conversations, coaching or supporting a team member. No matter how much you may know, it is never that easy, requiring constant practice to keep honing these skills. I think that getting this right is probably one of the most challenging parts of being a good manager and building high-performance teams.</p>
<p>On the other hand, while reflecting on the concept of leading by example, my attention was drawn to Japan as it has some of the most impressive examples of great leadership and leading by example, in particular, in the face of adversity. Some well known examples during periods of financial downturn are Nintendo´s President who chose to halve his salary to avoid laying off employees and preserve talent for future success and Japan Airlines CEO Haruka Nishimatsu who slashed his own salary and gave up executive perks during 2007 and 2009 while the airline faced severe changes to recover from financial debt. He famously stated that if a leader doesn’t share the pain, they cannot expect the followers to endure it which sets a quite high benchmark for leadership solidarity. I would say this is key as a leader and/or manager to avoid an organizational disconnect that may likely impact performance and long term results.</p>
<h2>Final Thoughts</h2>
<p>We are used to think about management or being a manager as being responsible for the operational activity of the team, work planning, setting priorities, dealing with a wide range of issues, supporting team members and dealing with People & Money for multiple administrative tasks (which may likely include screaming time to time). <span style="font-size: 1rem;">At some point during the activities, I defined a team as a living organism, where every member has its particularities, and hence requiring constant adjustment or fine tuning aka management from a manager in order to achieve a suitable balance. Like a garden with different plants, each one displaying different qualities, requiring different nutrients, water intake and sun in order to thrive. </span>Through the different conversations with other participants and my peer group, it unfolds that, as a manager you manage tasks, but you also lead people and the best way to lead is by showing (leading by example). It turns out that one of the most important things a manager can do isn’t “managing” at all—it’s leading by example, otherwise, none of the other elements involving being a manager may have the expected results.</p>
<p>As we progress into the final part of this adventure, it is time to reflect about the most important lessons I have learned as this is that last activity for us before being able to complete the course.</p>
<p>If you are considering joining the programme, go for it. I get bored quite easily and thought it may be just another boring set of activities and now I have to admit that it is actually a really good experience plus the facilitator is brilliant so I strongly recommend it.</p>
<p>What does good management look like to you?</p>
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<description><![CDATA[I recently attended the ITIL 4 Foundation training course organised by ISG and successfully passed the exam. Here’s some thoughts about my experience and some tips that I learned while studying for the exam. This is a 3 days in-person course that prepares attendees for the ITIL exam. It was delivered by a training partner […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently attended the ITIL 4 Foundation training course organised by ISG and successfully passed the exam. Here’s some thoughts about my experience and some tips that I learned while studying for the exam.</p>
<p>This is a 3 days in-person course that prepares attendees for the ITIL exam. It was delivered by a training partner of Axelos who managed to turn a usually dry content into a set of engaging sessions with the help of timely coffee breaks.</p>
<p>As part of my role in DLAM, we currently implement ITIL practices and I was eager to learn more about ITIL so that I could better support the different services using best practices.</p>
<h4>My experience in 30 seconds</h4>
<p>I found the course really useful to have a better understanding of ITIL framework and key concepts. ITIL also helps to understand why UniDesk works the way it does here at the University. Another positive from the course was to meet and interact with other staff involved in ITIL practices.</p>
<p>The main downside is that by the end of each day everyone’s brain is saturated with information and no matter how much I like processes and workflows…it is a lot of to take in. On the other hand, the quizzes and mock exams that are introduced throughout the training sessions are really good to review, reflect on the concepts and refresh the brain.</p>
<h4>Main Tips and Takeaways</h4>
<p><strong>Before the course</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Consider checking some ITIL courses available on Linkedin Learning to get a grasp of the basic concepts if you are not familiar with the ITIL framework.</li>
<li>Consider buying a revision guide. I bought the ITIL Foundation Essentials by Claire Agutter (there are different guides so check and decide which one you like it better) and found it very useful before the course and specially once completed to easily review the concepts (ie on the bus) instead of login into the course content platform.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>During the course</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Ask questions</li>
<li>Add notes (the course platform allows to easily add notes)</li>
<li>Get proper sleep (if possible)</li>
<li>Bring your own coffee in the morning in case catering is delayed</li>
<li>Bring layers as you never know how cold or warm you may feel the room</li>
</ul>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>After the course (Exam prep)</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Learn the terminology. There are multiple questions in the exam about key concepts definitions.</li>
<li>Understand the relationships between ITIL concepts.</li>
<li>Review the Mock Exams (you can find additional mock exams online) and practice until you are able to consistently achieve the desired mark.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Tips for the online exam</strong></p>
<p>The ITIL® Foundation exam consists of 40 multiple-choice questions that must be completed within 60 minutes.</p>
<p>The online exam is an online proctored exam. It felt weird having someone “overseeing” you but without actually seeing them. However, once I started the exam I was fully focused on the questions and this was not an issue.</p>
<ul>
<li>Make sure that you take the exam in a suitable room (ie: the room should only have one door and your camera needs to show that door, my understanding is that if you have two doors, they have to be in view)</li>
<li>Wherever you are taking the exam, ensure no one open the doors while you take the exam</li>
<li>You will need to keep a clean desk and cover any extra monitors (you need to show it with your webcam)</li>
<li>The proctor will gently review that all the requirements are met for the room, reading the requirements feels worst than it its (ie: I had to cover my two monitors while using just the laptop to take the exam)</li>
<li>Read carefully the questions, don’t rush.</li>
<li>If you get stuck on a test question, move on and come back later</li>
<li>Keep an eye on the clock however, I can assure you that you will have plenty of time.</li>
<li>Learn the key definitions and watch out for certain keywords (this would help you connect the wording to the right concept)</li>
<li>Book your exam (important thing to remember!)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Conclusion</h4>
<p>Do I recommend the course if you are interested in ITIL, IT or Service Management? Yes!</p>
<p>I took the exam on Monday after completing the course the previous Friday.</p>
<p>We were advised to let the content sink during the weekend and schedule the exam from Sunday on wards and not more than 1 week after completing the course so that we still have the concepts fresh in the mind. I practiced the mock exams a few times until being consistent at getting at least 30 out of 40 and…I got more than 30 in the exam <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f642.png" alt="🙂" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
<p> </p>
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<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the tools that got my attention a while ago is Midjourney as a result of noticing astonishing images made by an artist I know. I only started using it recently and I have been surprised by the potential it has and at the same time it has forced me to think about the […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the tools that got my attention a while ago is Midjourney as a result of noticing astonishing images made by an artist I know.</p>
<p>I only started using it recently and I have been surprised by the potential it has and at the same time it has forced me to think about the pros and cons of AI.</p>
<p>It is described by its creators as by its creators as “text-to-image AI where your imagination is the only limit”. One of the things I was curious about is the possibility to use Midjourney to create specific images that could be use in online courses or as feature images in posts as I sometimes struggle to find the right image.</p>
<p>I got myself a basic account to do some tests and I have selected some of the Midjourney generated images below to illustrate this post and the featured image.</p>
<p>As an instructional designer, part of the job may involve creating or editing certain creative assets. Most of the Authoring eLearning tools would nowadays provide access to a library of images, yet sometimes you may need something very specific. Same applies for blogs, there are a good number of bank photos but you may not always find what you want or you may spend too much time scrolling through a content library.</p>
<h3>Creating an image for an online course</h3>
<p>Let’s say that I need an angry dinosaur having a discussion to illustrate a conflict management slide for a course…</p>
<p><strong>Prompt:</strong> angry customer with a dinosaur face discussing with a customer assistant, v 5.1 –style raw</p>
<p>If you look at the woman’s character, do you notice some strange things? The pen seems to be floating, the elbow and the hand are a bit odd.</p>
<p>And…the dinosaur body is…well…interesting.</p>
<p>This was the first attempt at this prompt which shows some of the AI limitations at the moment. Usually, by iteration and clarifying the instructions within the prompt, the image can get closer to the idea I had in mind although there is a high chance that it may still require some manual editing. On the positive side, if there is no similar image via the image bank, this can be very helpful.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face_discussing_with__693c87f4-6ee4-4d49-8993-22e400cf358d_0-300x300.png" alt="angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face_discussing_with__693c87f4-6ee4-4d49-8993-22e400cf358d_0-300x300.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face_discussing_with__693c87f4-6ee4-4d49-8993-22e400cf358d_0-150x150.png 150w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face_discussing_with__693c87f4-6ee4-4d49-8993-22e400cf358d_0-768x768.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_angry_customer_with_a_dinosaur_face_discussing_with__693c87f4-6ee4-4d49-8993-22e400cf358d_0.png 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Created with Midjourney</span></p>
<h3>Creating a flat illustration</h3>
<p>Now, using a more elaborated prompt to create a flat illustration, the result was not bad although it took a few iterations to get something that I was satisfied with. Still, the right arm looks like a bit strange to me.</p>
<p><strong>Prompt:</strong> Discover the world of scientific exploration with this flat illustration featuring a chemist wearing glasses, with a smile and happy eyes, diligently working in a research laboratory. Engaged in experiments, she skillfully handles a [object that is used]. This minimalist UI illustration, perfect for GUI applications, boasts a clean white background and a bright color scheme that highlights the focus and determination of the scientist. Immerse yourself in the pursuit of knowledge and celebrate the passion for discovery in this vibrant and engaging visual representation.–ar 1:1 –v 5 –s 100</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-21" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_Discover_the_world_of_scientific_exploration_with_th_3e40d1d4-b449-436c-ac7a-a03fc5b90a92_2-300x300.png" alt="chemist_in_laboratory_flat_illustration" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_Discover_the_world_of_scientific_exploration_with_th_3e40d1d4-b449-436c-ac7a-a03fc5b90a92_2-300x300.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_Discover_the_world_of_scientific_exploration_with_th_3e40d1d4-b449-436c-ac7a-a03fc5b90a92_2-150x150.png 150w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_Discover_the_world_of_scientific_exploration_with_th_3e40d1d4-b449-436c-ac7a-a03fc5b90a92_2-768x768.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_Discover_the_world_of_scientific_exploration_with_th_3e40d1d4-b449-436c-ac7a-a03fc5b90a92_2.png 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Created with Midjourney</span></p>
<p> </p>
<h3>The fun side of AI</h3>
<p>So far, I have found being able to communicate with AI fascinating. It can be exciting when you manage to create a prompt that returns what you expected or frustrating when you get just the opposite and even funny when you look at some of the results based on not good enough prompts or the AI not quite understanding what you meant in your prompt (as you may note looking at the image below!).</p>
<p><strong>Prompt</strong>: funny t-rex dinosaur, working as it support with headphones sitting in a chair in front of a computer, cartoon style, happy face, with scottish kilt ,v 5.1 –style raw –</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-20" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_a_sco_7a10e2a8-157e-4fdb-a78a-fa28ac0cb4a0_3-300x300.png" alt="funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_scottish_kilt" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_a_sco_7a10e2a8-157e-4fdb-a78a-fa28ac0cb4a0_3-300x300.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_a_sco_7a10e2a8-157e-4fdb-a78a-fa28ac0cb4a0_3-150x150.png 150w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_a_sco_7a10e2a8-157e-4fdb-a78a-fa28ac0cb4a0_3-768x768.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/edtechunchained/wp-content/uploads/sites/10112/2024/04/josmedia_funny_t_rex_dinosaur_with_a_happy_face_wearing_a_sco_7a10e2a8-157e-4fdb-a78a-fa28ac0cb4a0_3.png 1024w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Created with Midjourney</span></p>
<p>Like many radical innovations, the fear is for a potentially good tool to end up being used in a harmful way. It feels like a tsunami and either you sink or you ride the wave. I believe that, a good starting point, is to have a better understanding of its advantages and limitations, so that we can work towards and ethical and safe use of AI.</p>
<h3>Thoughts about AI and Midjourney</h3>
<p>Some quick thoughts based on my initial experience (note that I am not an AI expert or a designer)</p>
<p><strong>Pros</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>You can create almost anything that you can conceive in your mind</li>
<li>It enhances your creativity by exposing you to creative options you may have not considered</li>
<li>It can speed up the creative process using AI as a starting point and then adding manual input to create the final artwork.</li>
<li>It can be used as inspiration, as creative prompts.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Cons</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Achieving a perfect image out of a prompt is not always possible, it requires iteration and often some final human touch.</li>
<li>Complexity of copyright ownership/infringement (in theory, there is no copyright in the “raw” outcome as there is no creative human input unless it is modified, there are risks based on regulations in different countries, changes in terms of service, existing images…)</li>
<li>Current controversy with copyright (it is worth reading <a href="http://docs.midjourney.com/hc/en-us/articles/32083055291277-Terms-of-Service" class="broken_link">Midjourney Terms of Service </a> and to check or seek advice depending on the intended usage of the images, especially for commercial use)</li>
<li>Devaluation of manually created artwork</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Opportunities</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Learning how to communicate to AI and train it to help us</li>
<li>A powerful additional brain that can be used for good</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Challenges</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Data usage</li>
<li>Data waste as a result of the crazy amount of both good and awful content being generated.</li>
<li>Concerns about Midjourney stealing work .</li>
<li>Ensuring that we are able to establish ethical boundaries so that we do not end up fighting against Skynet like in Terminator!</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Lessons learnt</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Talking to AI is not so different than talking to humans (bear with me…). If you want AI or a human to understand you, you need to communicate the right way. Also, even if you use the right words, AI may not get what you ask for!</li>
<li>There is a learning curve, it can be frustrating and also good fun.</li>
<li>To achieve the best results, i would say that, at least at the moment, human input is required to edit what AI presents.</li>
<li>The key to create successful prompts is to use a positive language! If I want a “clear background”, the trick is adding “clear background” in the prompt rather than requesting “no dark background”. In essence, anything we may not want in the image, has to be changed into a positive keyword for Midjourney to better understand what we want.</li>
<li>It requires a good conversation regarding copyrights and commercial use of creative work produced in collaboration with AI tools.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Final thoughts</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Although this AI tool is pretty amazing from a creative perspective, I have found that it can be time consuming to design or adapt certain prompts (hence the rise of prompt designers). Therefore, I may have spent more time trying to achieve a decent image with the prompts than finding a good enough image through the image bank or image library. It is also likely that a prompt designer may be able to achieve better results in less time.</li>
<li>With the right knowledge and experience, it allows creating fascinating art and creative assets that otherwise, unless being an artist or a creative, may be near impossible to achieve.</li>
<li>It can be a complementary tool to create certain digital assets that may be difficult to find and may be used as a first draft before editing the image through human input.</li>
<li>There are some Midjourney users creating fascinating pieces of work however I don’t feel it is a tool that anyone can use to create a great creative asset in five minutes. Even knowing about prompt design, it seems that it requires some good skills to achieve really good outcomes.</li>
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<p>If you feel like giving it a try you will need a Discord and Midjourney account. There are several good tutorials online in case you may want to give it a go.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span>‘We Have Great Women in STEM’ colouring book Our volume three colouring book ‘We Have Great Women in STEM’ is now available on Edinburgh Diamond, the University of Edinburgh’s digital service for hosting Diamond Open Access books and journals. Hosting our books on Edinburgh Diamond Although we have our books available on the Colouring Books website having them […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span><h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">‘We Have Great Women in STEM’ colouring book</span></h2>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Our volume three colouring book <a href="https://books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-diamond/catalog/book/ED-9781912669622"><span class="s2">‘We Have Great Women in STEM’</span></a> is now available on <a href="https://books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-diamond/index"><span class="s2">Edinburgh Diamond</span></a>, the University of Edinburgh’s digital service for hosting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_open_access"><span class="s2">Diamond Open Access</span></a> books and journals.</span></p>
<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">Hosting our books on Edinburgh Diamond</span></h2>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Although we have our books available on the <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/colouring-books/download-the-books"><span class="s2">Colouring Books</span></a> website having them on Edinburgh Diamond is a more sustainable and long term way of preserving them. Check out our Edinburgh Diamond Catalogue series: <a href="https://books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-diamond/catalog/series/we-have-great-stuff"><span class="s2">‘We have Great Stuff’</span></a>.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">To find out more about the Edinburgh Diamond Service visit their <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/research-support/edinburgh-diamond"><span class="s2">University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Diamond website</span></a>.</span></p>
<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">Volume 3 colouring book reference</span></h2>
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<li class="li3"><span class="s3"><a href="https://books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-diamond/catalog/book/ED-9781912669622"><span class="s4">Edinburgh Diamond: We have Great Women in STEM, Volume 3</span></a></span></li>
<li class="li4"><span class="s1">ISBN: 978-1-912669-62-2</span></li>
<li class="li3"><span class="s6">DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.2218/ED.9781912669622"><span class="s4">https://doi.org/10.2218/ED.9781912669622</span></a></span></li>
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<p class="p2"><span class="s1">For the references and more information on volumes one and two please read our <a href="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/edinburgh-diamond/">previous blogpost on Edinburgh Diamond</a>.</span></p>
<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">About the</span><span class="s1"> </span><span class="s1">book</span></h2>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">This third volume was created by our Interactive Content summer intern Ally McKay, she is studying illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. The images for the book were collated from in person and online workshops Ally held during the summer, and also includes some of her own illustrations. She also met with inspiring women in STEM who work and study in the University.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Ally says about her internship:</span></p>
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<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Creating the book was such a fun and useful experience for me. As an illustration student, it’s usually me creating the pictures but getting to run workshops and collect submissions from the university of Edinburgh community reminded me how much talent we have in our organization. I loved the opportunity to dig into the history of some of UoE’s women in STEM of the past, and also meet with women doing amazing work in STEM today. The project couldn’t have been possible without support and guidance from Stewart Cromar and Jackie Aim, as well as all the amazing volunteers that submitted work!</span></p>
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<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">Book distribution</span></h2>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">The volume three physical books were printed to coordinate with our Ada Lovelace Day celebration on Tuesday 10th October 2023. They were distributed to various locations including Argyle House, Residence Life Office and the Health and Wellbeing Centre at Bristo Square. They are also available to <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/colouring-books/download-the-books"><span class="s2">download</span></a>.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">We have paper copies of volume three at Argyle House that are freely available to UoE staff and students, please <a href="mailto:interactive-content@ed.ac.uk"><span class="s2">email us</span></a> if you would like a copy. We can send them out via internal mail only.</span></p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span>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, […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span><h2>It’s finally here!</h2>
<p>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!</p>
<p>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, and employees came together to learn about digital art and highlight our incredible women in stem by contributing illustrations to the colouring book.</p>
<p>There is so much talent here at Edinburgh and I am extremely grateful to all who took time out of their busy schedules to help me with this project.</p>
<p><strong>Huge thank you to our illustrators:</strong></p>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">August Enger</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Jackie Aim</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Jenna Owen</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Karen McPhail</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Kirsty Tragis</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Sharon Chen</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Claudia Earl</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Catherine Munn</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Dagmar Danielsen</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Ally Mckay</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Alysha Wilson</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Maarya Sharif</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Mayu Ishimoto</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Wenwen Wang</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Zequn Wang</div>
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<p><strong>And another huge thank you to all the contributors that made this project possible:</strong></p>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Cait MacPhee</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Estifa’a Zaid</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Frances Blow</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Hannah Shuttleworth</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Holly Bridge</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">JC Denis</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Jenny Gracie</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Lothian Health Services Archive</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Maria Fanourgiaki</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Marialuisa Aliotta</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Mylaine Holin</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Nisha Grewal</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Orianna Ball</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Rosa Santomartino</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Sally Shaw</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Sarah Ressel</div>
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<h2>Where to get your copy</h2>
<p>There are a limited number of free copies of the book available at Argyle House, Residence Life Office and the Health and Wellbeing Centre at Bristo Square.</p>
<p>If your are University staff and would like a copy or a small box for your department, delivered via internal mail, please get in touch (whilst stocks last).</p>
<p>Please contact: <a href="mailto:interactive-content@ed.ac.uk">interactive-content@ed.ac.uk</a></p>
<h3>Online copies</h3>
<p>This publication is also available online at: <a href="https://edin.ac/colouring-book">https://edin.ac/colouring-book</a></p>
<h3>Flickr</h3>
<p>There are high-resolution (300 dpi) colouring book images available for you to download, reuse and share.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/interactive-content/albums/72177720311677507" data-uoe-button="info-sign" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/interactive-content/albums/72177720311677507">Colouring book Flickr album (volume three)</a></p>
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<p>Happy colouring!</p>
<p>-Ally</p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span>At this year's Ada Lovelace Day Ally McKay will officially launch her brand-new Women in STEM colouring-in book.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span><p><strong>On Tuesday 10th October 2023, the University’s Information Services team are celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2023 which is an <a href="https://findingada.com/">international celebration day</a> of the achieveme</strong><strong>nts of women in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics">science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM)</a>.</strong></p>
<p>They have an afternoon of <a href="https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/ada-lovelace-day/ada-lovelace-day-2023/">talks, activities and training</a> planned for Ada Lovelace Day. This will take place on the first floor of the Main Library (Central Area) from 11:00-17:00 in Room 1.07.</p>
<p>You can confirm your attendance via Event Booking now (open to all University students and staff):</p>
<p><a href="https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?event=showEventDetails&scheduleId=65360&start=&eventssearch=Ada%20Lovelace%20Day&eventStart=0">Book your place</a></p>
<p>P.S. Please do add yourself to the waiting list in case anyone cancels.</p>
<h2>Colouring book launch</h2>
<p>At this event Ally McKay, our very own colouring-in book creator and student intern, will officially launch her brand-new Women in STEM colouring-in book.</p>
<p>Don’t worry if you can’t attend the event, the openly licenced book will be available to <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/colouring-books/download-the-books">download</a> the same day. You will also be able to collect copies from multiple university locations (to-be-announced soon).</p>
<p>Shortly after the launch you will be also able to download high-resolution illustrations from our <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAXbuc">Flickr account</a>.</p>
<h2>Copyright and licence</h2>
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<p>Copyright © The University of Edinburgh 2023 CC BY</p>
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<div>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</a></div>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 6</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span>By now, you’ve probably heard that the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” Colouring Book is out now, entitled “We Have Great Women in STEM.” This 10-week project was a labor of love, from researching UoE’s women in STEM, hosting art workshops, accepting submissions, to finally compiling the book. Face the Facts One […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 6</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span><p>By now, you’ve probably heard that the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” Colouring Book is out now, entitled “We Have Great Women in STEM.” This 10-week project was a labor of love, from researching UoE’s women in STEM, hosting art workshops, accepting submissions, to finally compiling the book.</p>
<h2>Face the Facts</h2>
<p>One of the most challenging aspects of creating a colouring book like this was identifying who we wanted to include. Women in STEM tend to not be well recorded or represented in informational databases, and we did encounter some issues finding the women we wanted to illustrate. Luckily, the university’s website provided many great profiles, and we were able to take some great suggestions from colleagues. As I researched, I found more and more women I wanted to include– ending up with over 30 women (and one sheep) in our online database!</p>
<h2>Putting Faces to Names</h2>
<p>Because the project is so visual, it was imperative that I could hunt down open licensed images of these women so that participants could use the images without worrying about copyright. Luckily, some of the women were historical figures, and their images were so old that they entered the public domain.</p>
<div id="attachment_1763" style="width: 234px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1763" class="size-medium wp-image-1763" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-224x300.png" alt="Gertrude Hertz wears a lab coat and points to a scientific figure on a black board." width="224" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-224x300.png 224w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-763x1024.png 763w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-768x1030.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz.png 978w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1763" class="wp-caption-text">Gertrude Herzfeld: One of the First Female Surgeons</p></div>
<p>For the more modern women, it was trickier as their images were not in the public domain yet. And on top of that, some of the women had no photos taken of them at all!</p>
<p>I spent around three weeks searching, emailing, and scouring for images of these women, and found some gems! Namely, Jessie MacGregor’s incredible portrait with her dog, and Vivien Kellem’s incredible midcentury black and white portraits.</p>
<div id="attachment_1761" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1761" class="size-medium wp-image-1761" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-300x210.jpg" alt="Jessie sits at her desk in graduation robes, writing in a book. A scruffy dog sits next to her." width="300" height="210" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-300x210.jpg 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-768x538.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-1536x1075.jpg 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-2048x1434.jpg 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-1440x1008.jpg 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1761" class="wp-caption-text">Jessie MacLaren MacGregor: Fighting for Gender Equality at UoE</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1780" style="width: 251px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1780" class="size-medium wp-image-1780" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-241x300.jpg" alt="Vivien reclines on a leather sofa, wearing a fur coat and small hat. Her head is turned, facing left." width="241" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-241x300.jpg 241w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-824x1024.jpg 824w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-768x955.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-1236x1536.jpg 1236w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-1440x1790.jpg 1440w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems.jpg 1609w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1780" class="wp-caption-text">Vivien Kellems: Engineering Entrepreneur & Women’s Rights Advocate</p></div>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-1779 aligncenter" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Vivien_Kellems-300x231.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="231" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Vivien_Kellems-300x231.jpeg 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Vivien_Kellems.jpeg 512w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p>I also had a lot of success reaching out to current women in STEM at the University and simply asking for their permission to be in the book, and for them to provide a photo that they held the rights to. Reaching out to University departments also proved quite successful as they usually had photos of notable alumni from previous publications.</p>
<p>Eventually, I was able to source enough photos to compile them into an online database, and publish them ready to be made into illustrations.</p>
<h2>Time to put in the Work(shops)</h2>
<p>To source illustrations, I hosted a series of three workshops during the month of July: a digital illustration workshop, traditional illustration workshop, and an online digital workshop. These were open to all members of the UoE community and held in a variety of locations to allow those in all working situations to join.</p>
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<p><strong>Workshop 1: Digital Illustration Workshop</strong></p>
<p>The first workshop was held in early July, and we had 8 lovely members of the UoE community come out to help us with the colouring book project. These were mostly ISG interns, who courageously tried their hand at using Sketchpad to create digital artwork- which was no easy feat!</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1951" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1952" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p>I was so impressed by the group’s creativity and enthusiasm and we got some great submissions. It was also a great way to figure out how to best organise these workshops and effectively teach sketchpad.</p>
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<p><strong>Workshop 2: Traditional Illustration Workshop</strong></p>
<p>This workshop was hosted at ECA’s Evolution House– handy timing because the infamous Argyle House flood had just taken over the office. Jackie and I arrived armed with pencils, erasers and pens and welcomed 8 more enthusiastic individuals to the workshop. We had a mix of undergraduate students, masters students, professors and employees- and we all got together and bonded over cake, drawing, and women in STEM.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2058" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2057" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
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<p><strong>Workshop 3: Online Digital Illustration Workshop</strong></p>
<p>Another accidentally well-timed workshop– the last one we offered at the end of July was online. We had 5 participants come from across many of UoE’s departments, and since I had already been through the slides for the first workshop, this one ran super smoothly.</p>
<p>We got some great submissions here and had some really dedicated participants who worked on their illustrations after the workshop ended and came up with some incredible work.</p>
<h2>Compiling the Book</h2>
<p>Now that I had so many wonderful submissions from the workshops, I headed to trusty InDesign to start formatting the final book.</p>
<p>I first converted all the photographic submissions into vectors using Adobe Illustrator’s image trace function, or cleaned up any digital submissions that were already vectorised, but just had some missing pieces.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-2067 aligncenter" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="262" height="349" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-225x300.jpg 225w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-scaled.jpg 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>Before</strong><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-2066 aligncenter" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-212x300.png" alt="" width="267" height="378" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-212x300.png 212w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-724x1024.png 724w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-768x1086.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-1086x1536.png 1086w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-1448x2048.png 1448w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-1440x2036.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>After</strong></p>
<p>I also took a look at the women that we hadn’t gotten any submissions for and made illustrations myself for them.</p>
<p>Following loosely the formatting from previous copies, I set up my file as an A5 booklet, and decided on the fonts “Factoria” and “Video” for body and headings, respectively. I wanted the type to be kind of quirky and create shapes that would be fun to colour in, which is why I went down the sci-fi route and sourced technologically inspired fonts.</p>
<p>From there, I just popped all the final images into their pages and decided which would sit best together on the page. Then, I had two main things to fill in– the cover and the index.</p>
<h2>You Can Judge this Book’s Cover!</h2>
<p>I had two initial concepts for the book cover– one featuring a magnifying glass, and one featuring a female scientist. In the end, my team and I decided that the microscope one was more eye-catching and drew the eye to the center of the page well. I had such a fun time making all the tiny little STEM icons, and took lots of inspiration from the Star Wars edition of “Little White Lies,” incorporating halftones as a way to add contrast without taking away any colouring-in functionality.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2069" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-232x300.jpg" alt="" width="232" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-232x300.jpg 232w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-791x1024.jpg 791w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-768x994.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-scaled.jpg 1978w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2068" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-232x300.jpg" alt="" width="232" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-232x300.jpg 232w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-791x1024.jpg 791w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-768x994.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-scaled.jpg 1978w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px" /></p>
<p> </p>
<p>I made the cover in illustrator, and created the back and front on the same document so that the images would seamlessly flow into each other when the book was opened.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-2060 aligncenter" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-300x200.png" alt="" width="722" height="481" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-300x200.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-1024x683.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-768x512.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-1536x1024.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-2048x1365.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-1440x960.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px" /></p>
<h2>The Index <strong>– Celebrating Achievements</strong></h2>
<p>My last hurdle on this project was creating the index. This would go at the back of the book and would store all the information about the illustration’s source images, illustrators, reference photo attribution, and a short piece of biographical info about each women. Due to the subject matter of the book, it was important to my team and I to not just show the likeness of these women in STEM, but celebrate their achievements. Adding this info in the index was a good way to do this without taking away from the illustrations.</p>
<h2><strong>And Voilà!</strong></h2>
<p>Just like that, 10 weeks flew by and the book was all finished! I printed a proof copy, made some adjustments, and awarded prizes to the winners of this year’s call for entries contest. These individuals expressed enthusiasm, were extremely committed to the project, and made some incredible work.</p>
<ul>
<li>August Enger: <em>Jessie MacLaren MacGregor</em></li>
<li>Dagmar Danielsen: <em>Xia Peisu</em></li>
<li>Catherine Munn: <em>Brenda Moon </em>& <em>Jane Hillston</em></li>
<li>Jenna Owen: <em>Chrystal Macmillan, Charlotte Auerbach, Agnes Yewande Savage, </em>&<em> Cristina Cruikshank Miller</em></li>
</ul>
<p>I wish I could give everyone prizes, and want to give a huge thank you to all who helped make this book possible!</p>
<h2>Now What?</h2>
<p>For me, it’s back to school for one more year finishing my illustration degree. For the book, it’s off to the print shop and then it will be distributed to members of the Edinburgh community.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who helped make this book possible. I hope you enjoy colouring in the book as much as I did making it.</p>
<p>Take care,</p>
<p>-Ally</p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span> I am excited to share that progress on the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” colouring book series is steadily moving forward. As we continue to work on this project, we want to remind you that entries for the book are still open until the 30th of July! In response to valuable […]]]></description>
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<p>I am excited to share that progress on the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” colouring book series is steadily moving forward. As we continue to work on this project, we want to remind you that entries for the book are still open until the 30th of July!</p>
<p>In response to valuable feedback from some individuals who expressed their preference for not drawing people, I have worked with individuals across the University to curate a gallery of images featuring the STEM facilities at the University of Edinburgh.</p>
<p>All of these images are released under an open license, allowing you to freely use them as references for your entries into the colouring book.</p>
<p>The entry submission period for the colouring book remains open until the 28th of July. We encourage you to carefully review our entry guidelines, which can be found <a href="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/colouring-book-contest/">here.</a></p>
<p>We are immensely grateful for your interest and enthusiasm in this project, and we look forward to receiving your creative contributions. Together, let’s celebrate the wonders of science through the pages of the “We Have Great Stuff” colouring book!</p>
<p>Remember, the deadline for submissions is the 28th of July. We can’t wait to see your amazing artwork!</p>
<h2>Check out the photos here:</h2>
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<p>Huge thanks to these individuals for taking the time to give me tours and chat with me:</p>
<p><strong>Jenny Gracie:</strong> Widening Participation and Outreach Officer, School of Chemistry</p>
<p><strong>Sarah Ressel:</strong> Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Infection and Immunology Research</p>
<p><strong>Frances Blow:</strong> Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Infection and Immunology Research</p>
<p><strong>Maria Fanourgiaki:</strong> Science Communicator, School of Biological Sciences</p>
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<p>Happy drawing!</p>
<p>-Ally</p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 5</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Today, I had the privilege of sitting down with ten exceptional women in the field of Physics at the University of Edinburgh. During our conversation, we discussed their experiences, research, and remarkable achievements. I want to extend a special thanks to Jean-Christophe Denis, who organised this meeting. A Chat With Professor MacPhee Firstly, I […]]]></description>
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<p>Today, I had the privilege of sitting down with ten exceptional women in the field of Physics at the University of Edinburgh. During our conversation, we discussed their experiences, research, and remarkable achievements. I want to extend a special thanks to Jean-Christophe Denis, who organised this meeting.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1971 aligncenter" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait.png" alt="" width="328" height="464" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait.png 2481w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-212x300.png 212w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-724x1024.png 724w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-768x1086.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-1086x1536.png 1086w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-1448x2048.png 1448w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-1440x2036.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px" /></p>
<h2>A Chat With Professor MacPhee</h2>
<p>Firstly, I had the pleasure of speaking with Cait MacPhee, an accomplished professor in biological physics and experimental molecular biophysics. She is also the co-director of the National Biofilms Innovation Centre. MacPhee, who became the first female professor in the School of Physics at Edinburgh, shared her inspiring journey in STEM:</p>
<blockquote><p>“There is no standard journey. You’ll hear different stories from different people… I initially pursued biology but found it challenging. Eventually, I decided to switch to physics for my Ph.D. as it made more sense to me, and I enjoy working with numbers.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Having been at the University of Edinburgh for 18 years, MacPhee has witnessed significant changes within the department during her tenure.</p>
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<p>Reflecting on the past, MacPhee discussed the absence of maternity policies when she worked at a previous institution and was pregnant with her first child. The department was uncertain about how to address this situation, leading to chaotic circumstances. However, as senior male staff members have began prioritising childcare responsibilities, policies and procedures have been put in place to support out-of-work responsibilities, including childcare. MacPhee acknowledged the progress made, recounting instances of being the only woman in the room or being overlooked by male peers, while emphasising the significant improvements that have taken place.</p>
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<p>In our conversation, I asked MacPhee about the policies and infrastructure required to encourage women to enter and thrive in STEM fields. She emphasised that real change can be achieved by starting at the grassroots level:</p>
<blockquote><p>“When children are turned off from pursuing sciences, it often happens at an early age, even before they reach secondary school. Thus, a lot of work needs to be done in primary schools, which is a particular passion of mine.”</p></blockquote>
<p>MacPhee noted that girls often receive subconscious messaging in schools that leads to repetitive thought patterns discouraging them from pursuing STEM. With a majority of teachers in arts and humanities, young girls can naturally gravitate towards the arts without proper exposure to sciences in the curriculum. She believes that schools need to empower and train their staff to integrate STEM more closely and equally into their curriculum. This involves empowering teachers to deliver science programs themselves, addressing the lack of confidence often observed.</p>
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<p>Despite the challenges and obstacles encountered, MacPhee emphasised her deep love for her work:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I genuinely enjoy what I do. I’m amazed that they pay me to do this job. The element of discovery is exhilarating. When you know something that nobody else in the world knows and have figured it out, there’s nothing quite like that feeling.”</p></blockquote>
<p>One of MacPhee’s “lightbulb” moments came during her extensive studies of biofilms, which are slimy nests of organisms found in various environments. Studying their water-repellent mechanisms led her to make ground-breaking discoveries previously unknown in biology.</p>
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<h2>A Chat with students and professors in physics</h2>
<p>Our conversation expanded as nine other exceptional women in physics joined us. The array of talent, dedication, and passion they brought to the discussion was truly remarkable. It was an absolute delight to explore their research and experiences and brainstorm ideas on how to encourage women in STEM across the university.</p>
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<p>Here is an introduction to the remarkable women who participated in the interview (from left to right, top to bottom):</p>
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<li><strong>Mylaine Holin:</strong> Ph.D. student studying extreme conditions</li>
<li><strong>Hannah Shuttleworth:</strong> Ph.D. student in physics researching condensed matter and complex systems</li>
<li><strong>Rosa Santomartino:</strong> Leverhulme Early Career Fellow researching astrobiology</li>
<li><strong>Marialuisa Aliotta:</strong> Professor of experimental nuclear astrophysics</li>
<li><strong>Sally Shaw:</strong> Lecturer in experimental particle physics</li>
<li><strong>Orianna Ball:</strong> Ph.D. student studying extreme conditions</li>
<li><strong>Estifa’a Zaid:</strong> Ph.D. student studying particle and nuclear physics</li>
<li><strong>Nisha Grewal:</strong> Ph.D. student in the School of Physics and Astronomy</li>
<li><strong>Holly Bridge:</strong> Ph.D. student studying soft matter physics</li>
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<h2>Why did you choose to pursue STEM?</h2>
<p>To gain insights into their motivations, I asked the group about their journeys into STEM. Marialuisa Aliotta shared that she initially aspired to be a ballerina but her brother’s scientific inclinations inspired her to pursue physics and become an academic. Rosa, driven by her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut, embarked on a postdoctoral research journey in astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh. Sally, fascinated by space from a young age, found her perfect blend of astrophysics and particle physics in studying dark matter. Holly’s passion for math led her to begin her Ph.D. in physics, focusing on modelling individual-based simulations for bacteria and wastewater treatment. Hannah conducts experimental high-pressure experiments, simulating conditions akin to the centre of the Earth using diamond-tipped tools. Mylaine’s fascination with the universe’s scale and gas giant planets propelled her to study physics. Orianna, inspired by enthusiastic teachers during her schooling and her sister, conducts research on extreme conditions using the diamond anvil technique. Nisha’s affinity for mathematics led her to pursue astrophysics as a Ph.D. student to deepen her understanding of the world. Estifa’a, driven by her early enjoyment of mathematics, conducts particle physics experiments.</p>
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<p>When discussing role models, Rosa mentioned having an astronaut living in her building during her childhood, which left an indelible impression. Others agreed that looking up to researchers and teachers played a vital role in encouraging their pursuit of STEM.</p>
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<h2>Have you encountered any obstacles?</h2>
<p>Our conversation also touched upon the experiences and obstacles faced by these remarkable women in their respective fields. Marialuisa recalled joining the department in 2001 as the sole female staff member in her department at the time:</p>
<blockquote><p>“When I came to Edinburgh in 2001, I was the only female member of staff for the first six years. It felt somewhat lonely, and I struggled to engage with my all-male academic counterparts. However, conditions have significantly improved since then, although challenges still persist.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The group concurred that having mentors and role models is instrumental in achieving success as women in their fields. Nisha emphasized the importance of seeing women in positions of influence and demonstrating that it is possible. Supportive mentors played a vital role in Estifa’a’s journey, instilling confidence and fostering a belief in her capabilities.</p>
<p>The women highlighted community programs like Soapbox Science and the film “Picture A Scientist” as initiatives that encourage and showcase women in STEM fields.</p>
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<h2>What advice do you give to the next generation of women in STEM?</h2>
<p>When asked for advice for young women pursuing STEM, Sally advised ignoring anyone who suggests they are just filling a quota, emphasising that they deserve their place. Hannah stressed the importance of not comparing oneself to others, as she had initially viewed certain male counterparts as an elite group. Rosa emphasised that perfection should not be the end goal, encouraging young women to find supportive mentors and acknowledging that imperfection is acceptable.</p>
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<p>The women also underscored the significance of forming friendships with fellow women in STEM. Holly noted the positive impact that conversations with peers experiencing similar situations can have, encouraging those who may be shy to push themselves and seek out these connections.</p>
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<h2>Progress and Persistence</h2>
<p>In conclusion, the experiences, insights, and achievements shared by these incredible women at the University of Edinburgh highlight the progress made and the evolving landscape for women in STEM.</p>
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<p>Welcome back to another update on the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” coloring book series. I’m excited to share the highlights of our recent workshop and give you a glimpse of the incredible artwork created by our participants.</p>
<p>We kicked off our month of coloring book workshops with the first session focusing on creating digital illustrations using Sketchpad. It was a great success, with 10 individuals participating. I was impressed by the talent and dedication of our participants, especially considering that many of them were creating digital art for the first time.</p>
<p>The workshop began with a short demonstration, followed by an introduction to UoE’s women in STEM. Participants then dove into the world of Sketchpad, learning to master Bezier curves and anchor points. It was no easy feat, but I witnessed their progress firsthand as they gained confidence and created stunning digital illustrations.</p>
<p>While there were a few hiccups during the workshop, overall, I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome. The participants’ enthusiasm and the quality of their work were truly remarkable.</p>
<p>Looking ahead, I’m excited to announce that the next workshop will be held this Wednesday and will focus on traditional pen-and-ink illustration. Additionally, we have an online digital art workshop planned for next week. In the coming days, I’ll be touring various STEM facilities, capturing photos to showcase the remarkable staff and facilities we have at our university.</p>
<p>Huge thank you to everyone who came along to last week’s workshop, and if you missed it, check out our <a href="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/events/">events page</a> to sign up for an upcoming workshop, and don’t forget to enter your submissions before the 28th!</p>
<p>I hope you’re enjoying the summer weather as much as I am. It’s a great time to explore your creativity and dive into the world of art. Stay tuned for more updates and inspiring artwork from our workshops.</p>
<p>Take care!<br />
-Ally</p>
<h2>Hard at work!</h2>
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<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1952" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318.png" alt="" width="617" height="463" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318.png 4032w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px" /></p>
<h2>A sneak peak at some submissions:</h2>
<p>Sharon Chen’s incredible portrait of Noreen Murray, co-creator of the world’s first genetically modified vaccine.</p>
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<li><strong>Photo credits:</strong> Photograph of Kenneth and Noreen Murray, photographic print, provided by the Murray Archive, University of Edinburgh [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noreen_Murray#/media/File:Noreen_Murray_(cropped).jpg] CC by 3.0</li>
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<div id="attachment_1771" style="width: 367px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1771" class=" wp-image-1771" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Noreen_Murray_cropped.jpeg" alt="Noreen Murray wears a polka dot scarf, hat, and buttoned jacket while she looks ahead." width="357" height="562" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Noreen_Murray_cropped.jpeg 558w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Noreen_Murray_cropped-191x300.jpeg 191w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1771" class="wp-caption-text">Noreen Murray: Co-Creator of the World’s First Genetically Modified Vaccine</p></div>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1955 alignleft" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/SharonChen.png" alt="" width="391" height="553" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/SharonChen.png 724w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/SharonChen-212x300.png 212w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px" /></p>
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<p>Margarita Boyko’s beautiful portrait of Jennie Lee, member of parliment.</p>
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<li><strong>Photo credits:</strong> 1929, Jennie Lee, photographic print, provided by Illustrated London News Digital Archive via Wikimedia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jennie_Lee.jpg#/media/File:Jennie_Lee.jpg] Public domain image</li>
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<div id="attachment_1786" style="width: 286px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1786" class=" wp-image-1786" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Jennie_Lee-1.jpeg" alt="Black and white yearbook photo of Jennie Lee" width="276" height="389" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Jennie_Lee-1.jpeg 515w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Jennie_Lee-1-213x300.jpeg 213w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1786" class="wp-caption-text">Jennie Lee: Pioneering Member of Parliament</p></div>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1954" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Drawing_1_sketchpad.jpeg" alt="" width="280" height="396" /></p>
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<p>And I’ve been working on creating colouring pages of the women who don’t have any open licenced images available, starting with Lillian Lindsay, the first female dentist in the UK.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1960" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally.png" alt="" width="382" height="540" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally.png 3308w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-212x300.png 212w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-724x1024.png 724w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-768x1086.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-1086x1536.png 1086w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-1448x2048.png 1448w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-1440x2036.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px" /></p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span>Deadline: Friday, July 28th Contest Description This is your chance to be a part of the We Have Good Stuff Colouring Book series! We’re looking for illustrations inspired by the incredible women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) from the University of Edinburgh (UoE). Help us to highlight exceptional women and their extraordinary achievements […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span><h1>Deadline: Friday, July 28th</h1>
<h2 style="text-align: start">Contest Description</h2>
<p style="text-align: start">This is your chance to be a part of the We Have Good Stuff Colouring Book series! We’re looking for illustrations inspired by the incredible women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) from the University of Edinburgh (UoE).</p>
<p style="text-align: start">Help us to highlight exceptional women and their extraordinary achievements by creating black and white line drawings inspired by the images published on our online database (longlist). Submit your entry for the chance to be a published illustrator and win prizes!</p>
<p style="text-align: start">Keep watching this blog for more information and examples. Here are some previous colouring book pages from the last two editions.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1907" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/51591208796_241bbfef12_c.jpg" alt="" width="236" height="335" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/51591208796_241bbfef12_c.jpg 563w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/51591208796_241bbfef12_c-211x300.jpg 211w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1904" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248315_d03491be93_c.jpg" alt="" width="237" height="336" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248315_d03491be93_c.jpg 564w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248315_d03491be93_c-212x300.jpg 212w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1905" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248715_7729430d4d_c.jpg" alt="" width="238" height="336" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248715_7729430d4d_c.jpg 566w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248715_7729430d4d_c-212x300.jpg 212w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: start">Closing Date</h3>
<p style="text-align: start">Remember, entries are due by the 28th of July!</p>
<p style="text-align: start">Don’t miss this great opportunity to contribute to the We Have Good Stuff Colouring Book series and celebrate women in STEM.</p>
<p style="text-align: start">All experiences and abilities are welcome!</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: start">Entry Guidelines</h2>
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<li>Entrants must utilize the images available on our blog and must not include any copyrighted imagery in their entries.</li>
<li>Submissions must be done in black and white and must be outline only (no shading). See examples here.</li>
<li>Submissions must be A4 (210mm x 297mm), 300dpi</li>
<li>Landscape or portrait will be accepted. · Submissions must be entered online to our submission portal by the 28th of July.</li>
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<p style="text-align: start">We will attempt to share and publish as many valid entries as possible (i.e. physical book and online repositories), but the final decision will be made by the project team.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: start">Pre-Requisites</h2>
<p>We’ll be providing workshops through the month of July, so feel free to come to those for demonstrations on how to create digital images and an overview of our selected image database. Please note however, that it is not required to attend these in order to enter.</p>
<p>You are welcome to use any method of illustrating you prefer, e.g. Adobe Illustrator or Procreate, but we will be hosting workshops on Sketchpad and traditional illustration.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: start">2023 Workshops</h2>
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<li style="text-align: start">Wednesday, July 5th: Digital Art Making Workshop (In person, Argyle House, room E13)</li>
<li style="text-align: start">Wednesday, July 12th: Traditional Art Making Workshop (In person, Evolution House, room 4.10)</li>
<li style="text-align: start">Wednesday, July 19th: Online Art Making Workshop (Online)</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: start">Prizes</h3>
<p style="text-align: start">There are a host of prizes available to participants, including books, art materials, and exclusive merchandise.</p>
<p style="text-align: start">All entrants will have the opportunity to be featured in a published work.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: start">Eligibility</h3>
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<li style="text-align: start">All UoE staff</li>
<li style="text-align: start">All UoE students</li>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 13:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span>Use this image bank to discover some of the University of Edinburgh’s wonderful women in science, technology, engineering, and maths! Click on each photo to find out more about each woman’s career and achievements. STEM Gallery Jun 27, 2023]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span><p>Use this image bank to discover some of the University of Edinburgh’s wonderful women in science, technology, engineering, and maths!</p>
<p>Click on each photo to find out more about each woman’s career and achievements.</p>
<h2>STEM Gallery</h2>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/agnessavage-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AgnesSavage-1-e1687266597726-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/annie_numbers-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Annie_Numbers-1-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Annie Hutton Numbers wears a graduation robe and hat, standing in front of a wooden wall." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/miller-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/miller-1-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Christina Cruikshank Miller in her graduation robe" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/ella_ferrier_pringle_in_1909-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Ella_Ferrier_Pringle_in_1909-1-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Isabella Pringle rests her head on her hand. She is wearing graduation robes and her hair is braided." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/elsie_inglis/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglis-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Elsie Inglis looks at the viewer. She is wearing a buttoned jacket, tie, and hat with plaid ribbon." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/jennie_lee-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Jennie_Lee-1-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Black and white yearbook photo of Jennie Lee" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/gertrude-hertz/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Gertrude Hertz wears a lab coat and points to a scientific figure on a black board." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/honor-fell/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Honor Fell sits smiling at her microscope" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/matildajclerk/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/MatildaJClerk-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Matilda J Clerk in her graduation gown" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/macmillan_chrystal_1908-1914_22704149049/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Macmillan_Chrystal_1908-1914_22704149049-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Chrystal MacMillan looks into the camera wearing a victorian lace dress with a brooch" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/marionross/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/marionross-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Marion Ross sits in a chair" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/auerbach1/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/auerbach1-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Charlotte Auerbach sits at her desk with a typewriter and cup of tea" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/1024px-bessie_watson_aged_9/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/1024px-Bessie_Watson_aged_9-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Young Bessie Watson stands wearing a kilt, playing the bagpipes, with a"Votes for Women" sash." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/marybruk/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/marybruk-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Mary Brück looks through a telescope" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/sophia_jex-blake_as_a_young_woman/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Sophia_Jex-Blake_as_a_young_woman-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Sophia Jex Blake as a young woman, writing at her desk" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/brenda_moon/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Brenda_Moon-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Brenda Moon stands with a cane in her garden, touching a rose, wearing a floral dress and smiling." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/profeleanorcampbellmugshot/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/ProfEleanorCampbellmugshot-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Eleanor Campbell smiles into the camera with a body of water and some grass behind her." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/photo-on-26-03-2020-at-13-20-5/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Photo-on-26-03-2020-at-13.20-5-e1687267542904-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Jane wears a red cardigan and glasses." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/devi/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Devi-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Devi stands with arms crossed in front of a purple "Edinburgh International Book Festival" background" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/tarasj/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/taraSJ-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Tara wears her lab coat and lanyard, smiling into camera" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/boden_9539/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Boden_9539-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Lisa Boden smiles into camera" /></a>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 5</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> As we prepare to bring you the third edition of the We Have Great Stuff colouring book series, we are considering new ways to update the format and reflect changing technology. This year’s theme, STEM, naturally lends itself to the incorporation of the buzz word of the year– Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is now […]]]></description>
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<p>As we prepare to bring you the third edition of the We Have Great Stuff colouring book series, we are considering new ways to update the format and reflect changing technology. This year’s theme, STEM, naturally lends itself to the incorporation of the buzz word of the year– Artificial Intelligence (AI).</p>
<p>AI is now touted as the miraculous tool that can enhance productivity, manage schedules, book flights, and even assist in meal planning. However, along with its popularity, AI has sparked significant controversy surrounding its ethical implications. Artists and creatives have expressed valid and pressing concerns about this highly innovative software.</p>
<h2><strong>What’s the Problem with AI? </strong></h2>
<p>One of the early achievements of AI was its ability to create “generative” images, combining various works to create entirely new visuals. While this may seem like a fascinating feat, it becomes problematic when we realize that this process often uses images posted online without consideration for copyright, proper attribution, or ethical compensation to the original artists.</p>
<h2><strong>An Expert Opinion</strong></h2>
<p>As an artist myself, this is a valid concern. Will there be any job opportunities for graduates like me with a design degree, or will they all be taken over by AI bots?</p>
<p>To see if I could incorporate AI into the colouring book, I decided to meet with two AI interns from ISG, Wietske Holwerda and Bartlomeij Pohorecki. Their unanimous response to my query was, “probably not.”</p>
<p>The AI team explained that the current state of AI is not advanced enough to be effectively employed in real projects like our colouring book. The images generated by popular AI tools like Deep AI and Dall-E may lack real-world accuracy, a critical aspect for a project like the colouring book which is centred around real individuals and technologies. Additionally, the sourcing of these AI-generated images raises concerns of copyright infringement, which could have serious consequences for a published open-source work.</p>
<p>However, they encouraged me to experiment and see what I could create.</p>
<h2><strong>Let’s Give it a Try</strong></h2>
<p>First, I tried <a href="https://openai.com/dall-e-2">Dall-E</a>, OpenAI’s image generation tool, which was among the first available online. Dall-E utilizes natural language descriptions to generate images based on requests and has been widely used for image creation.</p>
<p>I requested Dall-E to create colouring book pages featuring UoE’s very own Crystal Macmillan. The results were not terrible but fell short of expectations. The software lacked the ability to capture a reference or produce a likeness of a notable individual, making it challenging to use in a book filled with prominent personalities.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1875" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp.png" alt="" width="2887" height="2119" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp.png 2887w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-300x220.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-1024x752.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-768x564.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-1536x1127.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-2048x1503.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-1440x1057.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2887px) 100vw, 2887px" /></p>
<p>Another feature of Dall-E is the ability to edit existing images. I uploaded an image of Chrystal Macmillan to Dall-E, resulting in an army of look-alikes but nothing too helpful for the project.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1849" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09.png" alt="" width="2469" height="543" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09.png 2469w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-300x66.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-1024x225.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-768x169.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-1536x338.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-2048x450.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-1440x317.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2469px) 100vw, 2469px" /></p>
<p>Thinking that modifying an existing image might be the best approach for this project, I turned to <a href="https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/firefly.html">Adobe Firefly</a>, an AI tool currently in beta testing by Adobe, that has been integrated into the latest version of Photoshop. This tool has significantly democratized AI accessibility for designers and creatives who already utilize adobe products every day.</p>
<p>I asked Adobe Firefly to extend a few of my images, and the results were amazing!</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1763" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz.png" alt="Gertrude Hertz wears a lab coat and points to a scientific figure on a black board." width="207" height="278" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz.png 978w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-224x300.png 224w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-763x1024.png 763w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-768x1030.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1860" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit.png" alt="" width="427" height="278" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit.png 2016w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit-300x195.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit-1024x666.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit-768x500.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit-1536x1000.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit-1440x937.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px" /></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1764" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell.jpeg" alt="Honor Fell sits smiling at her microscope" width="205" height="286" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell.jpeg 512w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-215x300.jpeg 215w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1862" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-expanded.png" alt="" width="443" height="286" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-expanded.png 1110w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-expanded-300x194.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-expanded-1024x661.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-expanded-768x495.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px" /></p>
<p>However, there were some issues when it came to specific details. AI lacks an understanding of space and depth, which led to some peculiar additions to Honor’s lab. Additionally, the tool tended to add creepy humanoid figures, as evidenced by those added to Gertrude and Elsie’s image.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1861" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1.png" alt="" width="298" height="194" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1.png 2016w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1-300x195.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1-1024x666.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1-768x500.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1-1536x1000.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1-1440x937.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1863" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-felledit2.png" alt="" width="300" height="193" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-felledit2.png 1110w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-felledit2-300x194.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-felledit2-1024x661.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-felledit2-768x495.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1872" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218.jpg" alt="" width="297" height="199" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218.jpg 2560w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-300x201.jpg 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-768x515.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-1536x1029.jpg 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-2048x1372.jpg 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-1440x965.jpg 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1869" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2.png" alt="" width="304" height="198" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2.png 2016w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2-300x195.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2-1024x666.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2-768x500.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2-1536x1000.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2-1440x937.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px" /></p>
<p>Next, I explored “<a href="https://www.fotor.com/">Fotor</a>,” a free and accessible online platform for AI image generation and manipulation. Fotor offered a remarkable black and white colorization tool, using AI logic to colorize lack and white photos. This worked well on the picture of Charlotte Auerbach but fell short when applied to Jessie MacGregor or Noreen Murray..</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1879" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2.png" alt="" width="3129" height="1150" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2.png 3129w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-300x110.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-1024x376.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-768x282.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-1536x565.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-2048x753.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-1440x529.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 3129px) 100vw, 3129px" /></p>
<p>In summary, I find myself breathing a sigh of relief. Creatives, your jobs are safe, at least for now. AI is undoubtedly proving to be a powerful tool, but it is not without its complications.</p>
<p>However, there is a world of fun to be had when it comes to creating unusual AI altered images.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1884 alignnone" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1.png" alt="" width="333" height="227" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1-300x204.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1-1024x697.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1-768x523.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1-1440x981.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1883 alignnone" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1.png" alt="" width="333" height="227" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1-300x204.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1-1024x697.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1-768x523.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1-1440x981.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><em>Dolly and friends travel the world</em></p>
<h2><strong>So, what does this mean for the book?</strong></h2>
<p>When it comes to image generation, it may not be in the project’s best interest to rely too heavily on AI. Not only will it complicate our ability to licence the book’s images, it will produce images that simply aren’t as good as what any of you could come up with.</p>
<p>And when it comes to including AI in University work, the best practice is to of course use the helpful <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/bayes/ai-guidance-for-staff-and-students">AI guidance</a> published onto the University website, which covers use cases, citations, and best practices.</p>
<p>This is why we need participants like you more than ever to help us amplify the stories of UoE’s fantastic women in STEM and create hand-made, ethically sourced illustrations. Stay tuned for information on upcoming events and how to get involved in this project.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span>‘We Have Great Women in STEM’ colouring book Our volume three colouring book ‘We Have Great Women in STEM’ is now available on Edinburgh Diamond, the University of Edinburgh’s digital service for hosting Diamond Open Access books and journals. Hosting our books on Edinburgh Diamond Although we have our books available on the Colouring Books website having them […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span><h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">‘We Have Great Women in STEM’ colouring book</span></h2>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Our volume three colouring book <a href="https://books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-diamond/catalog/book/ED-9781912669622"><span class="s2">‘We Have Great Women in STEM’</span></a> is now available on <a href="https://books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-diamond/index"><span class="s2">Edinburgh Diamond</span></a>, the University of Edinburgh’s digital service for hosting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_open_access"><span class="s2">Diamond Open Access</span></a> books and journals.</span></p>
<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">Hosting our books on Edinburgh Diamond</span></h2>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Although we have our books available on the <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/colouring-books/download-the-books"><span class="s2">Colouring Books</span></a> website having them on Edinburgh Diamond is a more sustainable and long term way of preserving them. Check out our Edinburgh Diamond Catalogue series: <a href="https://books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-diamond/catalog/series/we-have-great-stuff"><span class="s2">‘We have Great Stuff’</span></a>.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">To find out more about the Edinburgh Diamond Service visit their <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/research-support/edinburgh-diamond"><span class="s2">University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Diamond website</span></a>.</span></p>
<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">Volume 3 colouring book reference</span></h2>
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<li class="li3"><span class="s3"><a href="https://books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-diamond/catalog/book/ED-9781912669622"><span class="s4">Edinburgh Diamond: We have Great Women in STEM, Volume 3</span></a></span></li>
<li class="li4"><span class="s1">ISBN: 978-1-912669-62-2</span></li>
<li class="li3"><span class="s6">DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.2218/ED.9781912669622"><span class="s4">https://doi.org/10.2218/ED.9781912669622</span></a></span></li>
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<p class="p2"><span class="s1">For the references and more information on volumes one and two please read our <a href="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/edinburgh-diamond/">previous blogpost on Edinburgh Diamond</a>.</span></p>
<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">About the</span><span class="s1"> </span><span class="s1">book</span></h2>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">This third volume was created by our Interactive Content summer intern Ally McKay, she is studying illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. The images for the book were collated from in person and online workshops Ally held during the summer, and also includes some of her own illustrations. She also met with inspiring women in STEM who work and study in the University.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Ally says about her internship:</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1"> </span></p>
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<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Creating the book was such a fun and useful experience for me. As an illustration student, it’s usually me creating the pictures but getting to run workshops and collect submissions from the university of Edinburgh community reminded me how much talent we have in our organization. I loved the opportunity to dig into the history of some of UoE’s women in STEM of the past, and also meet with women doing amazing work in STEM today. The project couldn’t have been possible without support and guidance from Stewart Cromar and Jackie Aim, as well as all the amazing volunteers that submitted work!</span></p>
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<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">Book distribution</span></h2>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">The volume three physical books were printed to coordinate with our Ada Lovelace Day celebration on Tuesday 10th October 2023. They were distributed to various locations including Argyle House, Residence Life Office and the Health and Wellbeing Centre at Bristo Square. They are also available to <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/colouring-books/download-the-books"><span class="s2">download</span></a>.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">We have paper copies of volume three at Argyle House that are freely available to UoE staff and students, please <a href="mailto:interactive-content@ed.ac.uk"><span class="s2">email us</span></a> if you would like a copy. We can send them out via internal mail only.</span></p>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span>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, […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span><h2>It’s finally here!</h2>
<p>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!</p>
<p>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, and employees came together to learn about digital art and highlight our incredible women in stem by contributing illustrations to the colouring book.</p>
<p>There is so much talent here at Edinburgh and I am extremely grateful to all who took time out of their busy schedules to help me with this project.</p>
<p><strong>Huge thank you to our illustrators:</strong></p>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">August Enger</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Jackie Aim</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Jenna Owen</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Karen McPhail</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Kirsty Tragis</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Sharon Chen</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Claudia Earl</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Catherine Munn</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Dagmar Danielsen</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Ally Mckay</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Alysha Wilson</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Maarya Sharif</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Mayu Ishimoto</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Wenwen Wang</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Zequn Wang</div>
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<p><strong>And another huge thank you to all the contributors that made this project possible:</strong></p>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Cait MacPhee</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Estifa’a Zaid</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Frances Blow</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Hannah Shuttleworth</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Holly Bridge</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">JC Denis</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Jenny Gracie</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Lothian Health Services Archive</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Maria Fanourgiaki</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Marialuisa Aliotta</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Mylaine Holin</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Nisha Grewal</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Orianna Ball</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Rosa Santomartino</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Sally Shaw</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Sarah Ressel</div>
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<h2>Where to get your copy</h2>
<p>There are a limited number of free copies of the book available at Argyle House, Residence Life Office and the Health and Wellbeing Centre at Bristo Square.</p>
<p>If your are University staff and would like a copy or a small box for your department, delivered via internal mail, please get in touch (whilst stocks last).</p>
<p>Please contact: <a href="mailto:interactive-content@ed.ac.uk">interactive-content@ed.ac.uk</a></p>
<h3>Online copies</h3>
<p>This publication is also available online at: <a href="https://edin.ac/colouring-book">https://edin.ac/colouring-book</a></p>
<h3>Flickr</h3>
<p>There are high-resolution (300 dpi) colouring book images available for you to download, reuse and share.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/interactive-content/albums/72177720311677507" data-uoe-button="info-sign" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/interactive-content/albums/72177720311677507">Colouring book Flickr album (volume three)</a></p>
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<p>Happy colouring!</p>
<p>-Ally</p>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span>At this year's Ada Lovelace Day Ally McKay will officially launch her brand-new Women in STEM colouring-in book.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span><p><strong>On Tuesday 10th October 2023, the University’s Information Services team are celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2023 which is an <a href="https://findingada.com/">international celebration day</a> of the achieveme</strong><strong>nts of women in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics">science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM)</a>.</strong></p>
<p>They have an afternoon of <a href="https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/ada-lovelace-day/ada-lovelace-day-2023/">talks, activities and training</a> planned for Ada Lovelace Day. This will take place on the first floor of the Main Library (Central Area) from 11:00-17:00 in Room 1.07.</p>
<p>You can confirm your attendance via Event Booking now (open to all University students and staff):</p>
<p><a href="https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?event=showEventDetails&scheduleId=65360&start=&eventssearch=Ada%20Lovelace%20Day&eventStart=0">Book your place</a></p>
<p>P.S. Please do add yourself to the waiting list in case anyone cancels.</p>
<h2>Colouring book launch</h2>
<p>At this event Ally McKay, our very own colouring-in book creator and student intern, will officially launch her brand-new Women in STEM colouring-in book.</p>
<p>Don’t worry if you can’t attend the event, the openly licenced book will be available to <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/colouring-books/download-the-books">download</a> the same day. You will also be able to collect copies from multiple university locations (to-be-announced soon).</p>
<p>Shortly after the launch you will be also able to download high-resolution illustrations from our <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAXbuc">Flickr account</a>.</p>
<h2>Copyright and licence</h2>
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<p>Copyright © The University of Edinburgh 2023 CC BY</p>
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<div>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</a></div>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 6</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span>By now, you’ve probably heard that the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” Colouring Book is out now, entitled “We Have Great Women in STEM.” This 10-week project was a labor of love, from researching UoE’s women in STEM, hosting art workshops, accepting submissions, to finally compiling the book. Face the Facts One […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 6</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span><p>By now, you’ve probably heard that the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” Colouring Book is out now, entitled “We Have Great Women in STEM.” This 10-week project was a labor of love, from researching UoE’s women in STEM, hosting art workshops, accepting submissions, to finally compiling the book.</p>
<h2>Face the Facts</h2>
<p>One of the most challenging aspects of creating a colouring book like this was identifying who we wanted to include. Women in STEM tend to not be well recorded or represented in informational databases, and we did encounter some issues finding the women we wanted to illustrate. Luckily, the university’s website provided many great profiles, and we were able to take some great suggestions from colleagues. As I researched, I found more and more women I wanted to include– ending up with over 30 women (and one sheep) in our online database!</p>
<h2>Putting Faces to Names</h2>
<p>Because the project is so visual, it was imperative that I could hunt down open licensed images of these women so that participants could use the images without worrying about copyright. Luckily, some of the women were historical figures, and their images were so old that they entered the public domain.</p>
<div id="attachment_1763" style="width: 234px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1763" class="size-medium wp-image-1763" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-224x300.png" alt="Gertrude Hertz wears a lab coat and points to a scientific figure on a black board." width="224" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-224x300.png 224w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-763x1024.png 763w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-768x1030.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz.png 978w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1763" class="wp-caption-text">Gertrude Herzfeld: One of the First Female Surgeons</p></div>
<p>For the more modern women, it was trickier as their images were not in the public domain yet. And on top of that, some of the women had no photos taken of them at all!</p>
<p>I spent around three weeks searching, emailing, and scouring for images of these women, and found some gems! Namely, Jessie MacGregor’s incredible portrait with her dog, and Vivien Kellem’s incredible midcentury black and white portraits.</p>
<div id="attachment_1761" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1761" class="size-medium wp-image-1761" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-300x210.jpg" alt="Jessie sits at her desk in graduation robes, writing in a book. A scruffy dog sits next to her." width="300" height="210" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-300x210.jpg 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-768x538.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-1536x1075.jpg 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-2048x1434.jpg 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-1440x1008.jpg 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1761" class="wp-caption-text">Jessie MacLaren MacGregor: Fighting for Gender Equality at UoE</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1780" style="width: 251px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1780" class="size-medium wp-image-1780" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-241x300.jpg" alt="Vivien reclines on a leather sofa, wearing a fur coat and small hat. Her head is turned, facing left." width="241" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-241x300.jpg 241w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-824x1024.jpg 824w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-768x955.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-1236x1536.jpg 1236w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-1440x1790.jpg 1440w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems.jpg 1609w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1780" class="wp-caption-text">Vivien Kellems: Engineering Entrepreneur & Women’s Rights Advocate</p></div>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-1779 aligncenter" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Vivien_Kellems-300x231.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="231" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Vivien_Kellems-300x231.jpeg 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Vivien_Kellems.jpeg 512w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p>I also had a lot of success reaching out to current women in STEM at the University and simply asking for their permission to be in the book, and for them to provide a photo that they held the rights to. Reaching out to University departments also proved quite successful as they usually had photos of notable alumni from previous publications.</p>
<p>Eventually, I was able to source enough photos to compile them into an online database, and publish them ready to be made into illustrations.</p>
<h2>Time to put in the Work(shops)</h2>
<p>To source illustrations, I hosted a series of three workshops during the month of July: a digital illustration workshop, traditional illustration workshop, and an online digital workshop. These were open to all members of the UoE community and held in a variety of locations to allow those in all working situations to join.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Workshop 1: Digital Illustration Workshop</strong></p>
<p>The first workshop was held in early July, and we had 8 lovely members of the UoE community come out to help us with the colouring book project. These were mostly ISG interns, who courageously tried their hand at using Sketchpad to create digital artwork- which was no easy feat!</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1951" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1952" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p>I was so impressed by the group’s creativity and enthusiasm and we got some great submissions. It was also a great way to figure out how to best organise these workshops and effectively teach sketchpad.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Workshop 2: Traditional Illustration Workshop</strong></p>
<p>This workshop was hosted at ECA’s Evolution House– handy timing because the infamous Argyle House flood had just taken over the office. Jackie and I arrived armed with pencils, erasers and pens and welcomed 8 more enthusiastic individuals to the workshop. We had a mix of undergraduate students, masters students, professors and employees- and we all got together and bonded over cake, drawing, and women in STEM.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2058" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2057" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Workshop 3: Online Digital Illustration Workshop</strong></p>
<p>Another accidentally well-timed workshop– the last one we offered at the end of July was online. We had 5 participants come from across many of UoE’s departments, and since I had already been through the slides for the first workshop, this one ran super smoothly.</p>
<p>We got some great submissions here and had some really dedicated participants who worked on their illustrations after the workshop ended and came up with some incredible work.</p>
<h2>Compiling the Book</h2>
<p>Now that I had so many wonderful submissions from the workshops, I headed to trusty InDesign to start formatting the final book.</p>
<p>I first converted all the photographic submissions into vectors using Adobe Illustrator’s image trace function, or cleaned up any digital submissions that were already vectorised, but just had some missing pieces.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-2067 aligncenter" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="262" height="349" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-225x300.jpg 225w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-scaled.jpg 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>Before</strong><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-2066 aligncenter" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-212x300.png" alt="" width="267" height="378" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-212x300.png 212w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-724x1024.png 724w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-768x1086.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-1086x1536.png 1086w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-1448x2048.png 1448w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-1440x2036.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>After</strong></p>
<p>I also took a look at the women that we hadn’t gotten any submissions for and made illustrations myself for them.</p>
<p>Following loosely the formatting from previous copies, I set up my file as an A5 booklet, and decided on the fonts “Factoria” and “Video” for body and headings, respectively. I wanted the type to be kind of quirky and create shapes that would be fun to colour in, which is why I went down the sci-fi route and sourced technologically inspired fonts.</p>
<p>From there, I just popped all the final images into their pages and decided which would sit best together on the page. Then, I had two main things to fill in– the cover and the index.</p>
<h2>You Can Judge this Book’s Cover!</h2>
<p>I had two initial concepts for the book cover– one featuring a magnifying glass, and one featuring a female scientist. In the end, my team and I decided that the microscope one was more eye-catching and drew the eye to the center of the page well. I had such a fun time making all the tiny little STEM icons, and took lots of inspiration from the Star Wars edition of “Little White Lies,” incorporating halftones as a way to add contrast without taking away any colouring-in functionality.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2069" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-232x300.jpg" alt="" width="232" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-232x300.jpg 232w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-791x1024.jpg 791w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-768x994.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-scaled.jpg 1978w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2068" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-232x300.jpg" alt="" width="232" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-232x300.jpg 232w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-791x1024.jpg 791w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-768x994.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-scaled.jpg 1978w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px" /></p>
<p> </p>
<p>I made the cover in illustrator, and created the back and front on the same document so that the images would seamlessly flow into each other when the book was opened.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-2060 aligncenter" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-300x200.png" alt="" width="722" height="481" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-300x200.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-1024x683.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-768x512.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-1536x1024.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-2048x1365.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-1440x960.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px" /></p>
<h2>The Index <strong>– Celebrating Achievements</strong></h2>
<p>My last hurdle on this project was creating the index. This would go at the back of the book and would store all the information about the illustration’s source images, illustrators, reference photo attribution, and a short piece of biographical info about each women. Due to the subject matter of the book, it was important to my team and I to not just show the likeness of these women in STEM, but celebrate their achievements. Adding this info in the index was a good way to do this without taking away from the illustrations.</p>
<h2><strong>And Voilà!</strong></h2>
<p>Just like that, 10 weeks flew by and the book was all finished! I printed a proof copy, made some adjustments, and awarded prizes to the winners of this year’s call for entries contest. These individuals expressed enthusiasm, were extremely committed to the project, and made some incredible work.</p>
<ul>
<li>August Enger: <em>Jessie MacLaren MacGregor</em></li>
<li>Dagmar Danielsen: <em>Xia Peisu</em></li>
<li>Catherine Munn: <em>Brenda Moon </em>& <em>Jane Hillston</em></li>
<li>Jenna Owen: <em>Chrystal Macmillan, Charlotte Auerbach, Agnes Yewande Savage, </em>&<em> Cristina Cruikshank Miller</em></li>
</ul>
<p>I wish I could give everyone prizes, and want to give a huge thank you to all who helped make this book possible!</p>
<h2>Now What?</h2>
<p>For me, it’s back to school for one more year finishing my illustration degree. For the book, it’s off to the print shop and then it will be distributed to members of the Edinburgh community.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who helped make this book possible. I hope you enjoy colouring in the book as much as I did making it.</p>
<p>Take care,</p>
<p>-Ally</p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span> I am excited to share that progress on the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” colouring book series is steadily moving forward. As we continue to work on this project, we want to remind you that entries for the book are still open until the 30th of July! In response to valuable […]]]></description>
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<p>I am excited to share that progress on the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” colouring book series is steadily moving forward. As we continue to work on this project, we want to remind you that entries for the book are still open until the 30th of July!</p>
<p>In response to valuable feedback from some individuals who expressed their preference for not drawing people, I have worked with individuals across the University to curate a gallery of images featuring the STEM facilities at the University of Edinburgh.</p>
<p>All of these images are released under an open license, allowing you to freely use them as references for your entries into the colouring book.</p>
<p>The entry submission period for the colouring book remains open until the 28th of July. We encourage you to carefully review our entry guidelines, which can be found <a href="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/colouring-book-contest/">here.</a></p>
<p>We are immensely grateful for your interest and enthusiasm in this project, and we look forward to receiving your creative contributions. Together, let’s celebrate the wonders of science through the pages of the “We Have Great Stuff” colouring book!</p>
<p>Remember, the deadline for submissions is the 28th of July. We can’t wait to see your amazing artwork!</p>
<h2>Check out the photos here:</h2>
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<p>Huge thanks to these individuals for taking the time to give me tours and chat with me:</p>
<p><strong>Jenny Gracie:</strong> Widening Participation and Outreach Officer, School of Chemistry</p>
<p><strong>Sarah Ressel:</strong> Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Infection and Immunology Research</p>
<p><strong>Frances Blow:</strong> Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Infection and Immunology Research</p>
<p><strong>Maria Fanourgiaki:</strong> Science Communicator, School of Biological Sciences</p>
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<p>Happy drawing!</p>
<p>-Ally</p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 5</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Today, I had the privilege of sitting down with ten exceptional women in the field of Physics at the University of Edinburgh. During our conversation, we discussed their experiences, research, and remarkable achievements. I want to extend a special thanks to Jean-Christophe Denis, who organised this meeting. A Chat With Professor MacPhee Firstly, I […]]]></description>
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<p>Today, I had the privilege of sitting down with ten exceptional women in the field of Physics at the University of Edinburgh. During our conversation, we discussed their experiences, research, and remarkable achievements. I want to extend a special thanks to Jean-Christophe Denis, who organised this meeting.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1971 aligncenter" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait.png" alt="" width="328" height="464" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait.png 2481w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-212x300.png 212w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-724x1024.png 724w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-768x1086.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-1086x1536.png 1086w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-1448x2048.png 1448w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-1440x2036.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px" /></p>
<h2>A Chat With Professor MacPhee</h2>
<p>Firstly, I had the pleasure of speaking with Cait MacPhee, an accomplished professor in biological physics and experimental molecular biophysics. She is also the co-director of the National Biofilms Innovation Centre. MacPhee, who became the first female professor in the School of Physics at Edinburgh, shared her inspiring journey in STEM:</p>
<blockquote><p>“There is no standard journey. You’ll hear different stories from different people… I initially pursued biology but found it challenging. Eventually, I decided to switch to physics for my Ph.D. as it made more sense to me, and I enjoy working with numbers.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Having been at the University of Edinburgh for 18 years, MacPhee has witnessed significant changes within the department during her tenure.</p>
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<p>Reflecting on the past, MacPhee discussed the absence of maternity policies when she worked at a previous institution and was pregnant with her first child. The department was uncertain about how to address this situation, leading to chaotic circumstances. However, as senior male staff members have began prioritising childcare responsibilities, policies and procedures have been put in place to support out-of-work responsibilities, including childcare. MacPhee acknowledged the progress made, recounting instances of being the only woman in the room or being overlooked by male peers, while emphasising the significant improvements that have taken place.</p>
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<p>In our conversation, I asked MacPhee about the policies and infrastructure required to encourage women to enter and thrive in STEM fields. She emphasised that real change can be achieved by starting at the grassroots level:</p>
<blockquote><p>“When children are turned off from pursuing sciences, it often happens at an early age, even before they reach secondary school. Thus, a lot of work needs to be done in primary schools, which is a particular passion of mine.”</p></blockquote>
<p>MacPhee noted that girls often receive subconscious messaging in schools that leads to repetitive thought patterns discouraging them from pursuing STEM. With a majority of teachers in arts and humanities, young girls can naturally gravitate towards the arts without proper exposure to sciences in the curriculum. She believes that schools need to empower and train their staff to integrate STEM more closely and equally into their curriculum. This involves empowering teachers to deliver science programs themselves, addressing the lack of confidence often observed.</p>
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<p>Despite the challenges and obstacles encountered, MacPhee emphasised her deep love for her work:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I genuinely enjoy what I do. I’m amazed that they pay me to do this job. The element of discovery is exhilarating. When you know something that nobody else in the world knows and have figured it out, there’s nothing quite like that feeling.”</p></blockquote>
<p>One of MacPhee’s “lightbulb” moments came during her extensive studies of biofilms, which are slimy nests of organisms found in various environments. Studying their water-repellent mechanisms led her to make ground-breaking discoveries previously unknown in biology.</p>
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<h2>A Chat with students and professors in physics</h2>
<p>Our conversation expanded as nine other exceptional women in physics joined us. The array of talent, dedication, and passion they brought to the discussion was truly remarkable. It was an absolute delight to explore their research and experiences and brainstorm ideas on how to encourage women in STEM across the university.</p>
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<p>Here is an introduction to the remarkable women who participated in the interview (from left to right, top to bottom):</p>
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<li><strong>Mylaine Holin:</strong> Ph.D. student studying extreme conditions</li>
<li><strong>Hannah Shuttleworth:</strong> Ph.D. student in physics researching condensed matter and complex systems</li>
<li><strong>Rosa Santomartino:</strong> Leverhulme Early Career Fellow researching astrobiology</li>
<li><strong>Marialuisa Aliotta:</strong> Professor of experimental nuclear astrophysics</li>
<li><strong>Sally Shaw:</strong> Lecturer in experimental particle physics</li>
<li><strong>Orianna Ball:</strong> Ph.D. student studying extreme conditions</li>
<li><strong>Estifa’a Zaid:</strong> Ph.D. student studying particle and nuclear physics</li>
<li><strong>Nisha Grewal:</strong> Ph.D. student in the School of Physics and Astronomy</li>
<li><strong>Holly Bridge:</strong> Ph.D. student studying soft matter physics</li>
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<h2>Why did you choose to pursue STEM?</h2>
<p>To gain insights into their motivations, I asked the group about their journeys into STEM. Marialuisa Aliotta shared that she initially aspired to be a ballerina but her brother’s scientific inclinations inspired her to pursue physics and become an academic. Rosa, driven by her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut, embarked on a postdoctoral research journey in astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh. Sally, fascinated by space from a young age, found her perfect blend of astrophysics and particle physics in studying dark matter. Holly’s passion for math led her to begin her Ph.D. in physics, focusing on modelling individual-based simulations for bacteria and wastewater treatment. Hannah conducts experimental high-pressure experiments, simulating conditions akin to the centre of the Earth using diamond-tipped tools. Mylaine’s fascination with the universe’s scale and gas giant planets propelled her to study physics. Orianna, inspired by enthusiastic teachers during her schooling and her sister, conducts research on extreme conditions using the diamond anvil technique. Nisha’s affinity for mathematics led her to pursue astrophysics as a Ph.D. student to deepen her understanding of the world. Estifa’a, driven by her early enjoyment of mathematics, conducts particle physics experiments.</p>
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<p>When discussing role models, Rosa mentioned having an astronaut living in her building during her childhood, which left an indelible impression. Others agreed that looking up to researchers and teachers played a vital role in encouraging their pursuit of STEM.</p>
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<h2>Have you encountered any obstacles?</h2>
<p>Our conversation also touched upon the experiences and obstacles faced by these remarkable women in their respective fields. Marialuisa recalled joining the department in 2001 as the sole female staff member in her department at the time:</p>
<blockquote><p>“When I came to Edinburgh in 2001, I was the only female member of staff for the first six years. It felt somewhat lonely, and I struggled to engage with my all-male academic counterparts. However, conditions have significantly improved since then, although challenges still persist.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The group concurred that having mentors and role models is instrumental in achieving success as women in their fields. Nisha emphasized the importance of seeing women in positions of influence and demonstrating that it is possible. Supportive mentors played a vital role in Estifa’a’s journey, instilling confidence and fostering a belief in her capabilities.</p>
<p>The women highlighted community programs like Soapbox Science and the film “Picture A Scientist” as initiatives that encourage and showcase women in STEM fields.</p>
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<h2>What advice do you give to the next generation of women in STEM?</h2>
<p>When asked for advice for young women pursuing STEM, Sally advised ignoring anyone who suggests they are just filling a quota, emphasising that they deserve their place. Hannah stressed the importance of not comparing oneself to others, as she had initially viewed certain male counterparts as an elite group. Rosa emphasised that perfection should not be the end goal, encouraging young women to find supportive mentors and acknowledging that imperfection is acceptable.</p>
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<p>The women also underscored the significance of forming friendships with fellow women in STEM. Holly noted the positive impact that conversations with peers experiencing similar situations can have, encouraging those who may be shy to push themselves and seek out these connections.</p>
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<h2>Progress and Persistence</h2>
<p>In conclusion, the experiences, insights, and achievements shared by these incredible women at the University of Edinburgh highlight the progress made and the evolving landscape for women in STEM.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 3</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Welcome back to another update on the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” coloring book series. I’m excited to share the highlights of our recent workshop and give you a glimpse of the incredible artwork created by our participants. We kicked off our month of coloring book workshops with the first session […]]]></description>
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<p>Welcome back to another update on the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” coloring book series. I’m excited to share the highlights of our recent workshop and give you a glimpse of the incredible artwork created by our participants.</p>
<p>We kicked off our month of coloring book workshops with the first session focusing on creating digital illustrations using Sketchpad. It was a great success, with 10 individuals participating. I was impressed by the talent and dedication of our participants, especially considering that many of them were creating digital art for the first time.</p>
<p>The workshop began with a short demonstration, followed by an introduction to UoE’s women in STEM. Participants then dove into the world of Sketchpad, learning to master Bezier curves and anchor points. It was no easy feat, but I witnessed their progress firsthand as they gained confidence and created stunning digital illustrations.</p>
<p>While there were a few hiccups during the workshop, overall, I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome. The participants’ enthusiasm and the quality of their work were truly remarkable.</p>
<p>Looking ahead, I’m excited to announce that the next workshop will be held this Wednesday and will focus on traditional pen-and-ink illustration. Additionally, we have an online digital art workshop planned for next week. In the coming days, I’ll be touring various STEM facilities, capturing photos to showcase the remarkable staff and facilities we have at our university.</p>
<p>Huge thank you to everyone who came along to last week’s workshop, and if you missed it, check out our <a href="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/events/">events page</a> to sign up for an upcoming workshop, and don’t forget to enter your submissions before the 28th!</p>
<p>I hope you’re enjoying the summer weather as much as I am. It’s a great time to explore your creativity and dive into the world of art. Stay tuned for more updates and inspiring artwork from our workshops.</p>
<p>Take care!<br />
-Ally</p>
<h2>Hard at work!</h2>
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<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1952" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318.png" alt="" width="617" height="463" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318.png 4032w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px" /></p>
<h2>A sneak peak at some submissions:</h2>
<p>Sharon Chen’s incredible portrait of Noreen Murray, co-creator of the world’s first genetically modified vaccine.</p>
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<li><strong>Photo credits:</strong> Photograph of Kenneth and Noreen Murray, photographic print, provided by the Murray Archive, University of Edinburgh [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noreen_Murray#/media/File:Noreen_Murray_(cropped).jpg] CC by 3.0</li>
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<div id="attachment_1771" style="width: 367px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1771" class=" wp-image-1771" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Noreen_Murray_cropped.jpeg" alt="Noreen Murray wears a polka dot scarf, hat, and buttoned jacket while she looks ahead." width="357" height="562" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Noreen_Murray_cropped.jpeg 558w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Noreen_Murray_cropped-191x300.jpeg 191w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1771" class="wp-caption-text">Noreen Murray: Co-Creator of the World’s First Genetically Modified Vaccine</p></div>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1955 alignleft" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/SharonChen.png" alt="" width="391" height="553" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/SharonChen.png 724w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/SharonChen-212x300.png 212w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px" /></p>
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<p>Margarita Boyko’s beautiful portrait of Jennie Lee, member of parliment.</p>
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<li><strong>Photo credits:</strong> 1929, Jennie Lee, photographic print, provided by Illustrated London News Digital Archive via Wikimedia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jennie_Lee.jpg#/media/File:Jennie_Lee.jpg] Public domain image</li>
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<div id="attachment_1786" style="width: 286px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1786" class=" wp-image-1786" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Jennie_Lee-1.jpeg" alt="Black and white yearbook photo of Jennie Lee" width="276" height="389" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Jennie_Lee-1.jpeg 515w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Jennie_Lee-1-213x300.jpeg 213w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1786" class="wp-caption-text">Jennie Lee: Pioneering Member of Parliament</p></div>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1954" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Drawing_1_sketchpad.jpeg" alt="" width="280" height="396" /></p>
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<p>And I’ve been working on creating colouring pages of the women who don’t have any open licenced images available, starting with Lillian Lindsay, the first female dentist in the UK.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1960" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally.png" alt="" width="382" height="540" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally.png 3308w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-212x300.png 212w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-724x1024.png 724w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-768x1086.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-1086x1536.png 1086w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-1448x2048.png 1448w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-1440x2036.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px" /></p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span>Deadline: Friday, July 28th Contest Description This is your chance to be a part of the We Have Good Stuff Colouring Book series! We’re looking for illustrations inspired by the incredible women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) from the University of Edinburgh (UoE). Help us to highlight exceptional women and their extraordinary achievements […]]]></description>
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<h2 style="text-align: start">Contest Description</h2>
<p style="text-align: start">This is your chance to be a part of the We Have Good Stuff Colouring Book series! We’re looking for illustrations inspired by the incredible women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) from the University of Edinburgh (UoE).</p>
<p style="text-align: start">Help us to highlight exceptional women and their extraordinary achievements by creating black and white line drawings inspired by the images published on our online database (longlist). Submit your entry for the chance to be a published illustrator and win prizes!</p>
<p style="text-align: start">Keep watching this blog for more information and examples. Here are some previous colouring book pages from the last two editions.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1907" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/51591208796_241bbfef12_c.jpg" alt="" width="236" height="335" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/51591208796_241bbfef12_c.jpg 563w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/51591208796_241bbfef12_c-211x300.jpg 211w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1904" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248315_d03491be93_c.jpg" alt="" width="237" height="336" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248315_d03491be93_c.jpg 564w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248315_d03491be93_c-212x300.jpg 212w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1905" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248715_7729430d4d_c.jpg" alt="" width="238" height="336" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248715_7729430d4d_c.jpg 566w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248715_7729430d4d_c-212x300.jpg 212w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /></p>
<h3 style="text-align: start">Closing Date</h3>
<p style="text-align: start">Remember, entries are due by the 28th of July!</p>
<p style="text-align: start">Don’t miss this great opportunity to contribute to the We Have Good Stuff Colouring Book series and celebrate women in STEM.</p>
<p style="text-align: start">All experiences and abilities are welcome!</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: start">Entry Guidelines</h2>
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<li>Entrants must utilize the images available on our blog and must not include any copyrighted imagery in their entries.</li>
<li>Submissions must be done in black and white and must be outline only (no shading). See examples here.</li>
<li>Submissions must be A4 (210mm x 297mm), 300dpi</li>
<li>Landscape or portrait will be accepted. · Submissions must be entered online to our submission portal by the 28th of July.</li>
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<p style="text-align: start">We will attempt to share and publish as many valid entries as possible (i.e. physical book and online repositories), but the final decision will be made by the project team.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: start">Pre-Requisites</h2>
<p>We’ll be providing workshops through the month of July, so feel free to come to those for demonstrations on how to create digital images and an overview of our selected image database. Please note however, that it is not required to attend these in order to enter.</p>
<p>You are welcome to use any method of illustrating you prefer, e.g. Adobe Illustrator or Procreate, but we will be hosting workshops on Sketchpad and traditional illustration.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: start">2023 Workshops</h2>
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<li style="text-align: start">Wednesday, July 5th: Digital Art Making Workshop (In person, Argyle House, room E13)</li>
<li style="text-align: start">Wednesday, July 12th: Traditional Art Making Workshop (In person, Evolution House, room 4.10)</li>
<li style="text-align: start">Wednesday, July 19th: Online Art Making Workshop (Online)</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: start">Prizes</h3>
<p style="text-align: start">There are a host of prizes available to participants, including books, art materials, and exclusive merchandise.</p>
<p style="text-align: start">All entrants will have the opportunity to be featured in a published work.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: start">Eligibility</h3>
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<li style="text-align: start">All UoE staff</li>
<li style="text-align: start">All UoE students</li>
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<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2023 13:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span>Use this image bank to discover some of the University of Edinburgh’s wonderful women in science, technology, engineering, and maths! Click on each photo to find out more about each woman’s career and achievements. STEM Gallery Jun 27, 2023]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span><p>Use this image bank to discover some of the University of Edinburgh’s wonderful women in science, technology, engineering, and maths!</p>
<p>Click on each photo to find out more about each woman’s career and achievements.</p>
<h2>STEM Gallery</h2>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/agnessavage-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AgnesSavage-1-e1687266597726-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/annie_numbers-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Annie_Numbers-1-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Annie Hutton Numbers wears a graduation robe and hat, standing in front of a wooden wall." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/miller-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/miller-1-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Christina Cruikshank Miller in her graduation robe" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/ella_ferrier_pringle_in_1909-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Ella_Ferrier_Pringle_in_1909-1-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Isabella Pringle rests her head on her hand. She is wearing graduation robes and her hair is braided." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/elsie_inglis/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglis-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Elsie Inglis looks at the viewer. She is wearing a buttoned jacket, tie, and hat with plaid ribbon." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/jennie_lee-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Jennie_Lee-1-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Black and white yearbook photo of Jennie Lee" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/gertrude-hertz/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Gertrude Hertz wears a lab coat and points to a scientific figure on a black board." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/honor-fell/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Honor Fell sits smiling at her microscope" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/matildajclerk/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/MatildaJClerk-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Matilda J Clerk in her graduation gown" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/macmillan_chrystal_1908-1914_22704149049/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Macmillan_Chrystal_1908-1914_22704149049-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Chrystal MacMillan looks into the camera wearing a victorian lace dress with a brooch" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/marionross/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/marionross-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Marion Ross sits in a chair" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/auerbach1/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/auerbach1-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Charlotte Auerbach sits at her desk with a typewriter and cup of tea" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/1024px-bessie_watson_aged_9/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/1024px-Bessie_Watson_aged_9-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Young Bessie Watson stands wearing a kilt, playing the bagpipes, with a"Votes for Women" sash." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/marybruk/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/marybruk-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Mary Brück looks through a telescope" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/sophia_jex-blake_as_a_young_woman/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Sophia_Jex-Blake_as_a_young_woman-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Sophia Jex Blake as a young woman, writing at her desk" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/brenda_moon/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Brenda_Moon-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Brenda Moon stands with a cane in her garden, touching a rose, wearing a floral dress and smiling." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/profeleanorcampbellmugshot/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/ProfEleanorCampbellmugshot-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Eleanor Campbell smiles into the camera with a body of water and some grass behind her." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/photo-on-26-03-2020-at-13-20-5/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Photo-on-26-03-2020-at-13.20-5-e1687267542904-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Jane wears a red cardigan and glasses." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/devi/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Devi-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Devi stands with arms crossed in front of a purple "Edinburgh International Book Festival" background" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/tarasj/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/taraSJ-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Tara wears her lab coat and lanyard, smiling into camera" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/boden_9539/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Boden_9539-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Lisa Boden smiles into camera" /></a>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 5</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> As we prepare to bring you the third edition of the We Have Great Stuff colouring book series, we are considering new ways to update the format and reflect changing technology. This year’s theme, STEM, naturally lends itself to the incorporation of the buzz word of the year– Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is now […]]]></description>
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<p>As we prepare to bring you the third edition of the We Have Great Stuff colouring book series, we are considering new ways to update the format and reflect changing technology. This year’s theme, STEM, naturally lends itself to the incorporation of the buzz word of the year– Artificial Intelligence (AI).</p>
<p>AI is now touted as the miraculous tool that can enhance productivity, manage schedules, book flights, and even assist in meal planning. However, along with its popularity, AI has sparked significant controversy surrounding its ethical implications. Artists and creatives have expressed valid and pressing concerns about this highly innovative software.</p>
<h2><strong>What’s the Problem with AI? </strong></h2>
<p>One of the early achievements of AI was its ability to create “generative” images, combining various works to create entirely new visuals. While this may seem like a fascinating feat, it becomes problematic when we realize that this process often uses images posted online without consideration for copyright, proper attribution, or ethical compensation to the original artists.</p>
<h2><strong>An Expert Opinion</strong></h2>
<p>As an artist myself, this is a valid concern. Will there be any job opportunities for graduates like me with a design degree, or will they all be taken over by AI bots?</p>
<p>To see if I could incorporate AI into the colouring book, I decided to meet with two AI interns from ISG, Wietske Holwerda and Bartlomeij Pohorecki. Their unanimous response to my query was, “probably not.”</p>
<p>The AI team explained that the current state of AI is not advanced enough to be effectively employed in real projects like our colouring book. The images generated by popular AI tools like Deep AI and Dall-E may lack real-world accuracy, a critical aspect for a project like the colouring book which is centred around real individuals and technologies. Additionally, the sourcing of these AI-generated images raises concerns of copyright infringement, which could have serious consequences for a published open-source work.</p>
<p>However, they encouraged me to experiment and see what I could create.</p>
<h2><strong>Let’s Give it a Try</strong></h2>
<p>First, I tried <a href="https://openai.com/dall-e-2">Dall-E</a>, OpenAI’s image generation tool, which was among the first available online. Dall-E utilizes natural language descriptions to generate images based on requests and has been widely used for image creation.</p>
<p>I requested Dall-E to create colouring book pages featuring UoE’s very own Crystal Macmillan. The results were not terrible but fell short of expectations. The software lacked the ability to capture a reference or produce a likeness of a notable individual, making it challenging to use in a book filled with prominent personalities.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1875" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp.png" alt="" width="2887" height="2119" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp.png 2887w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-300x220.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-1024x752.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-768x564.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-1536x1127.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-2048x1503.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-1440x1057.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2887px) 100vw, 2887px" /></p>
<p>Another feature of Dall-E is the ability to edit existing images. I uploaded an image of Chrystal Macmillan to Dall-E, resulting in an army of look-alikes but nothing too helpful for the project.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1849" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09.png" alt="" width="2469" height="543" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09.png 2469w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-300x66.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-1024x225.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-768x169.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-1536x338.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-2048x450.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-1440x317.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2469px) 100vw, 2469px" /></p>
<p>Thinking that modifying an existing image might be the best approach for this project, I turned to <a href="https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/firefly.html">Adobe Firefly</a>, an AI tool currently in beta testing by Adobe, that has been integrated into the latest version of Photoshop. This tool has significantly democratized AI accessibility for designers and creatives who already utilize adobe products every day.</p>
<p>I asked Adobe Firefly to extend a few of my images, and the results were amazing!</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1763" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz.png" alt="Gertrude Hertz wears a lab coat and points to a scientific figure on a black board." width="207" height="278" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz.png 978w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-224x300.png 224w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-763x1024.png 763w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-768x1030.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1860" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit.png" alt="" width="427" height="278" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit.png 2016w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit-300x195.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit-1024x666.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit-768x500.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit-1536x1000.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit-1440x937.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px" /></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1764" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell.jpeg" alt="Honor Fell sits smiling at her microscope" width="205" height="286" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell.jpeg 512w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-215x300.jpeg 215w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1862" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-expanded.png" alt="" width="443" height="286" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-expanded.png 1110w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-expanded-300x194.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-expanded-1024x661.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-expanded-768x495.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px" /></p>
<p>However, there were some issues when it came to specific details. AI lacks an understanding of space and depth, which led to some peculiar additions to Honor’s lab. Additionally, the tool tended to add creepy humanoid figures, as evidenced by those added to Gertrude and Elsie’s image.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1861" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1.png" alt="" width="298" height="194" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1.png 2016w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1-300x195.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1-1024x666.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1-768x500.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1-1536x1000.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1-1440x937.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1863" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-felledit2.png" alt="" width="300" height="193" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-felledit2.png 1110w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-felledit2-300x194.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-felledit2-1024x661.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-felledit2-768x495.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1872" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218.jpg" alt="" width="297" height="199" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218.jpg 2560w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-300x201.jpg 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-768x515.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-1536x1029.jpg 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-2048x1372.jpg 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-1440x965.jpg 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1869" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2.png" alt="" width="304" height="198" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2.png 2016w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2-300x195.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2-1024x666.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2-768x500.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2-1536x1000.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2-1440x937.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px" /></p>
<p>Next, I explored “<a href="https://www.fotor.com/">Fotor</a>,” a free and accessible online platform for AI image generation and manipulation. Fotor offered a remarkable black and white colorization tool, using AI logic to colorize lack and white photos. This worked well on the picture of Charlotte Auerbach but fell short when applied to Jessie MacGregor or Noreen Murray..</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1879" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2.png" alt="" width="3129" height="1150" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2.png 3129w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-300x110.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-1024x376.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-768x282.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-1536x565.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-2048x753.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-1440x529.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 3129px) 100vw, 3129px" /></p>
<p>In summary, I find myself breathing a sigh of relief. Creatives, your jobs are safe, at least for now. AI is undoubtedly proving to be a powerful tool, but it is not without its complications.</p>
<p>However, there is a world of fun to be had when it comes to creating unusual AI altered images.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1884 alignnone" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1.png" alt="" width="333" height="227" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1-300x204.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1-1024x697.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1-768x523.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1-1440x981.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1883 alignnone" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1.png" alt="" width="333" height="227" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1-300x204.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1-1024x697.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1-768x523.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1-1440x981.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><em>Dolly and friends travel the world</em></p>
<h2><strong>So, what does this mean for the book?</strong></h2>
<p>When it comes to image generation, it may not be in the project’s best interest to rely too heavily on AI. Not only will it complicate our ability to licence the book’s images, it will produce images that simply aren’t as good as what any of you could come up with.</p>
<p>And when it comes to including AI in University work, the best practice is to of course use the helpful <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/bayes/ai-guidance-for-staff-and-students">AI guidance</a> published onto the University website, which covers use cases, citations, and best practices.</p>
<p>This is why we need participants like you more than ever to help us amplify the stories of UoE’s fantastic women in STEM and create hand-made, ethically sourced illustrations. Stay tuned for information on upcoming events and how to get involved in this project.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span>‘We Have Great Women in STEM’ colouring book Our volume three colouring book ‘We Have Great Women in STEM’ is now available on Edinburgh Diamond, the University of Edinburgh’s digital service for hosting Diamond Open Access books and journals. Hosting our books on Edinburgh Diamond Although we have our books available on the Colouring Books website having them […]]]></description>
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<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Our volume three colouring book <a href="https://books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-diamond/catalog/book/ED-9781912669622"><span class="s2">‘We Have Great Women in STEM’</span></a> is now available on <a href="https://books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-diamond/index"><span class="s2">Edinburgh Diamond</span></a>, the University of Edinburgh’s digital service for hosting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_open_access"><span class="s2">Diamond Open Access</span></a> books and journals.</span></p>
<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">Hosting our books on Edinburgh Diamond</span></h2>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Although we have our books available on the <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/colouring-books/download-the-books"><span class="s2">Colouring Books</span></a> website having them on Edinburgh Diamond is a more sustainable and long term way of preserving them. Check out our Edinburgh Diamond Catalogue series: <a href="https://books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-diamond/catalog/series/we-have-great-stuff"><span class="s2">‘We have Great Stuff’</span></a>.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">To find out more about the Edinburgh Diamond Service visit their <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/research-support/edinburgh-diamond"><span class="s2">University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Diamond website</span></a>.</span></p>
<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">Volume 3 colouring book reference</span></h2>
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<li class="li3"><span class="s3"><a href="https://books.ed.ac.uk/edinburgh-diamond/catalog/book/ED-9781912669622"><span class="s4">Edinburgh Diamond: We have Great Women in STEM, Volume 3</span></a></span></li>
<li class="li4"><span class="s1">ISBN: 978-1-912669-62-2</span></li>
<li class="li3"><span class="s6">DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.2218/ED.9781912669622"><span class="s4">https://doi.org/10.2218/ED.9781912669622</span></a></span></li>
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<p class="p2"><span class="s1">For the references and more information on volumes one and two please read our <a href="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/edinburgh-diamond/">previous blogpost on Edinburgh Diamond</a>.</span></p>
<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">About the</span><span class="s1"> </span><span class="s1">book</span></h2>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">This third volume was created by our Interactive Content summer intern Ally McKay, she is studying illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. The images for the book were collated from in person and online workshops Ally held during the summer, and also includes some of her own illustrations. She also met with inspiring women in STEM who work and study in the University.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Ally says about her internship:</span></p>
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<p class="p2"><span class="s1">Creating the book was such a fun and useful experience for me. As an illustration student, it’s usually me creating the pictures but getting to run workshops and collect submissions from the university of Edinburgh community reminded me how much talent we have in our organization. I loved the opportunity to dig into the history of some of UoE’s women in STEM of the past, and also meet with women doing amazing work in STEM today. The project couldn’t have been possible without support and guidance from Stewart Cromar and Jackie Aim, as well as all the amazing volunteers that submitted work!</span></p>
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<h2 class="p1"><span class="s1">Book distribution</span></h2>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">The volume three physical books were printed to coordinate with our Ada Lovelace Day celebration on Tuesday 10th October 2023. They were distributed to various locations including Argyle House, Residence Life Office and the Health and Wellbeing Centre at Bristo Square. They are also available to <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/colouring-books/download-the-books"><span class="s2">download</span></a>.</span></p>
<p class="p2"><span class="s1">We have paper copies of volume three at Argyle House that are freely available to UoE staff and students, please <a href="mailto:interactive-content@ed.ac.uk"><span class="s2">email us</span></a> if you would like a copy. We can send them out via internal mail only.</span></p>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span>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, […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span><h2>It’s finally here!</h2>
<p>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!</p>
<p>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, and employees came together to learn about digital art and highlight our incredible women in stem by contributing illustrations to the colouring book.</p>
<p>There is so much talent here at Edinburgh and I am extremely grateful to all who took time out of their busy schedules to help me with this project.</p>
<p><strong>Huge thank you to our illustrators:</strong></p>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">August Enger</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Jackie Aim</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Jenna Owen</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Karen McPhail</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Kirsty Tragis</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Sharon Chen</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Claudia Earl</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Catherine Munn</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Dagmar Danielsen</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Ally Mckay</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Alysha Wilson</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Maarya Sharif</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Mayu Ishimoto</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Wenwen Wang</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Zequn Wang</div>
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<p><strong>And another huge thank you to all the contributors that made this project possible:</strong></p>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Cait MacPhee</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Estifa’a Zaid</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Frances Blow</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Hannah Shuttleworth</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Holly Bridge</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">JC Denis</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Jenny Gracie</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Lothian Health Services Archive</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Maria Fanourgiaki</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Marialuisa Aliotta</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Mylaine Holin</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Nisha Grewal</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Orianna Ball</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Rosa Santomartino</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Sally Shaw</div>
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<div class="ewa-rteLine">Sarah Ressel</div>
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<h2>Where to get your copy</h2>
<p>There are a limited number of free copies of the book available at Argyle House, Residence Life Office and the Health and Wellbeing Centre at Bristo Square.</p>
<p>If your are University staff and would like a copy or a small box for your department, delivered via internal mail, please get in touch (whilst stocks last).</p>
<p>Please contact: <a href="mailto:interactive-content@ed.ac.uk">interactive-content@ed.ac.uk</a></p>
<h3>Online copies</h3>
<p>This publication is also available online at: <a href="https://edin.ac/colouring-book">https://edin.ac/colouring-book</a></p>
<h3>Flickr</h3>
<p>There are high-resolution (300 dpi) colouring book images available for you to download, reuse and share.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/interactive-content/albums/72177720311677507" data-uoe-button="info-sign" data-cke-saved-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/interactive-content/albums/72177720311677507">Colouring book Flickr album (volume three)</a></p>
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<p>Happy colouring!</p>
<p>-Ally</p>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span>At this year's Ada Lovelace Day Ally McKay will officially launch her brand-new Women in STEM colouring-in book.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span><p><strong>On Tuesday 10th October 2023, the University’s Information Services team are celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2023 which is an <a href="https://findingada.com/">international celebration day</a> of the achieveme</strong><strong>nts of women in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science,_technology,_engineering,_and_mathematics">science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM)</a>.</strong></p>
<p>They have an afternoon of <a href="https://thinking.is.ed.ac.uk/ada-lovelace-day/ada-lovelace-day-2023/">talks, activities and training</a> planned for Ada Lovelace Day. This will take place on the first floor of the Main Library (Central Area) from 11:00-17:00 in Room 1.07.</p>
<p>You can confirm your attendance via Event Booking now (open to all University students and staff):</p>
<p><a href="https://www.events.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?event=showEventDetails&scheduleId=65360&start=&eventssearch=Ada%20Lovelace%20Day&eventStart=0">Book your place</a></p>
<p>P.S. Please do add yourself to the waiting list in case anyone cancels.</p>
<h2>Colouring book launch</h2>
<p>At this event Ally McKay, our very own colouring-in book creator and student intern, will officially launch her brand-new Women in STEM colouring-in book.</p>
<p>Don’t worry if you can’t attend the event, the openly licenced book will be available to <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/colouring-books/download-the-books">download</a> the same day. You will also be able to collect copies from multiple university locations (to-be-announced soon).</p>
<p>Shortly after the launch you will be also able to download high-resolution illustrations from our <a href="https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAXbuc">Flickr account</a>.</p>
<h2>Copyright and licence</h2>
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<p>Copyright © The University of Edinburgh 2023 CC BY</p>
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<div>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License: <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0</a></div>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 6</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span>By now, you’ve probably heard that the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” Colouring Book is out now, entitled “We Have Great Women in STEM.” This 10-week project was a labor of love, from researching UoE’s women in STEM, hosting art workshops, accepting submissions, to finally compiling the book. Face the Facts One […]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 6</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span><p>By now, you’ve probably heard that the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” Colouring Book is out now, entitled “We Have Great Women in STEM.” This 10-week project was a labor of love, from researching UoE’s women in STEM, hosting art workshops, accepting submissions, to finally compiling the book.</p>
<h2>Face the Facts</h2>
<p>One of the most challenging aspects of creating a colouring book like this was identifying who we wanted to include. Women in STEM tend to not be well recorded or represented in informational databases, and we did encounter some issues finding the women we wanted to illustrate. Luckily, the university’s website provided many great profiles, and we were able to take some great suggestions from colleagues. As I researched, I found more and more women I wanted to include– ending up with over 30 women (and one sheep) in our online database!</p>
<h2>Putting Faces to Names</h2>
<p>Because the project is so visual, it was imperative that I could hunt down open licensed images of these women so that participants could use the images without worrying about copyright. Luckily, some of the women were historical figures, and their images were so old that they entered the public domain.</p>
<div id="attachment_1763" style="width: 234px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1763" class="size-medium wp-image-1763" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-224x300.png" alt="Gertrude Hertz wears a lab coat and points to a scientific figure on a black board." width="224" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-224x300.png 224w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-763x1024.png 763w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-768x1030.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz.png 978w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1763" class="wp-caption-text">Gertrude Herzfeld: One of the First Female Surgeons</p></div>
<p>For the more modern women, it was trickier as their images were not in the public domain yet. And on top of that, some of the women had no photos taken of them at all!</p>
<p>I spent around three weeks searching, emailing, and scouring for images of these women, and found some gems! Namely, Jessie MacGregor’s incredible portrait with her dog, and Vivien Kellem’s incredible midcentury black and white portraits.</p>
<div id="attachment_1761" style="width: 310px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1761" class="size-medium wp-image-1761" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-300x210.jpg" alt="Jessie sits at her desk in graduation robes, writing in a book. A scruffy dog sits next to her." width="300" height="210" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-300x210.jpg 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-768x538.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-1536x1075.jpg 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-2048x1434.jpg 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/GD1_53_2_2-Jessie-Macgregor-1440x1008.jpg 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1761" class="wp-caption-text">Jessie MacLaren MacGregor: Fighting for Gender Equality at UoE</p></div>
<div id="attachment_1780" style="width: 251px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1780" class="size-medium wp-image-1780" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-241x300.jpg" alt="Vivien reclines on a leather sofa, wearing a fur coat and small hat. Her head is turned, facing left." width="241" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-241x300.jpg 241w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-824x1024.jpg 824w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-768x955.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-1236x1536.jpg 1236w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems-1440x1790.jpg 1440w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/VivienKellems.jpg 1609w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1780" class="wp-caption-text">Vivien Kellems: Engineering Entrepreneur & Women’s Rights Advocate</p></div>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-1779 aligncenter" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Vivien_Kellems-300x231.jpeg" alt="" width="300" height="231" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Vivien_Kellems-300x231.jpeg 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Vivien_Kellems.jpeg 512w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p>I also had a lot of success reaching out to current women in STEM at the University and simply asking for their permission to be in the book, and for them to provide a photo that they held the rights to. Reaching out to University departments also proved quite successful as they usually had photos of notable alumni from previous publications.</p>
<p>Eventually, I was able to source enough photos to compile them into an online database, and publish them ready to be made into illustrations.</p>
<h2>Time to put in the Work(shops)</h2>
<p>To source illustrations, I hosted a series of three workshops during the month of July: a digital illustration workshop, traditional illustration workshop, and an online digital workshop. These were open to all members of the UoE community and held in a variety of locations to allow those in all working situations to join.</p>
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<p><strong>Workshop 1: Digital Illustration Workshop</strong></p>
<p>The first workshop was held in early July, and we had 8 lovely members of the UoE community come out to help us with the colouring book project. These were mostly ISG interns, who courageously tried their hand at using Sketchpad to create digital artwork- which was no easy feat!</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1951" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1952" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p>I was so impressed by the group’s creativity and enthusiasm and we got some great submissions. It was also a great way to figure out how to best organise these workshops and effectively teach sketchpad.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>Workshop 2: Traditional Illustration Workshop</strong></p>
<p>This workshop was hosted at ECA’s Evolution House– handy timing because the infamous Argyle House flood had just taken over the office. Jackie and I arrived armed with pencils, erasers and pens and welcomed 8 more enthusiastic individuals to the workshop. We had a mix of undergraduate students, masters students, professors and employees- and we all got together and bonded over cake, drawing, and women in STEM.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2058" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6405-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2057" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-300x225.png" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_6401-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
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<p><strong>Workshop 3: Online Digital Illustration Workshop</strong></p>
<p>Another accidentally well-timed workshop– the last one we offered at the end of July was online. We had 5 participants come from across many of UoE’s departments, and since I had already been through the slides for the first workshop, this one ran super smoothly.</p>
<p>We got some great submissions here and had some really dedicated participants who worked on their illustrations after the workshop ended and came up with some incredible work.</p>
<h2>Compiling the Book</h2>
<p>Now that I had so many wonderful submissions from the workshops, I headed to trusty InDesign to start formatting the final book.</p>
<p>I first converted all the photographic submissions into vectors using Adobe Illustrator’s image trace function, or cleaned up any digital submissions that were already vectorised, but just had some missing pieces.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-2067 aligncenter" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="262" height="349" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-225x300.jpg 225w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-1440x1920.jpg 1440w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/IMG_20230731_122147-scaled.jpg 1920w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>Before</strong><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-2066 aligncenter" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-212x300.png" alt="" width="267" height="378" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-212x300.png 212w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-724x1024.png 724w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-768x1086.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-1086x1536.png 1086w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-1448x2048.png 1448w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/JennaOwen-CharlotteAuerbach-1440x2036.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><strong>After</strong></p>
<p>I also took a look at the women that we hadn’t gotten any submissions for and made illustrations myself for them.</p>
<p>Following loosely the formatting from previous copies, I set up my file as an A5 booklet, and decided on the fonts “Factoria” and “Video” for body and headings, respectively. I wanted the type to be kind of quirky and create shapes that would be fun to colour in, which is why I went down the sci-fi route and sourced technologically inspired fonts.</p>
<p>From there, I just popped all the final images into their pages and decided which would sit best together on the page. Then, I had two main things to fill in– the cover and the index.</p>
<h2>You Can Judge this Book’s Cover!</h2>
<p>I had two initial concepts for the book cover– one featuring a magnifying glass, and one featuring a female scientist. In the end, my team and I decided that the microscope one was more eye-catching and drew the eye to the center of the page well. I had such a fun time making all the tiny little STEM icons, and took lots of inspiration from the Star Wars edition of “Little White Lies,” incorporating halftones as a way to add contrast without taking away any colouring-in functionality.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2069" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-232x300.jpg" alt="" width="232" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-232x300.jpg 232w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-791x1024.jpg 791w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-768x994.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-scaled.jpg 1978w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2068" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-232x300.jpg" alt="" width="232" height="300" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-232x300.jpg 232w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-791x1024.jpg 791w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-768x994.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-1440x1864.jpg 1440w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/MicrosoftTeams-image-copy-scaled.jpg 1978w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px" /></p>
<p> </p>
<p>I made the cover in illustrator, and created the back and front on the same document so that the images would seamlessly flow into each other when the book was opened.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-2060 aligncenter" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-300x200.png" alt="" width="722" height="481" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-300x200.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-1024x683.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-768x512.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-1536x1024.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-2048x1365.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/08/mockup1-1440x960.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px" /></p>
<h2>The Index <strong>– Celebrating Achievements</strong></h2>
<p>My last hurdle on this project was creating the index. This would go at the back of the book and would store all the information about the illustration’s source images, illustrators, reference photo attribution, and a short piece of biographical info about each women. Due to the subject matter of the book, it was important to my team and I to not just show the likeness of these women in STEM, but celebrate their achievements. Adding this info in the index was a good way to do this without taking away from the illustrations.</p>
<h2><strong>And Voilà!</strong></h2>
<p>Just like that, 10 weeks flew by and the book was all finished! I printed a proof copy, made some adjustments, and awarded prizes to the winners of this year’s call for entries contest. These individuals expressed enthusiasm, were extremely committed to the project, and made some incredible work.</p>
<ul>
<li>August Enger: <em>Jessie MacLaren MacGregor</em></li>
<li>Dagmar Danielsen: <em>Xia Peisu</em></li>
<li>Catherine Munn: <em>Brenda Moon </em>& <em>Jane Hillston</em></li>
<li>Jenna Owen: <em>Chrystal Macmillan, Charlotte Auerbach, Agnes Yewande Savage, </em>&<em> Cristina Cruikshank Miller</em></li>
</ul>
<p>I wish I could give everyone prizes, and want to give a huge thank you to all who helped make this book possible!</p>
<h2>Now What?</h2>
<p>For me, it’s back to school for one more year finishing my illustration degree. For the book, it’s off to the print shop and then it will be distributed to members of the Edinburgh community.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Thanks to everyone who helped make this book possible. I hope you enjoy colouring in the book as much as I did making it.</p>
<p>Take care,</p>
<p>-Ally</p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span> I am excited to share that progress on the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” colouring book series is steadily moving forward. As we continue to work on this project, we want to remind you that entries for the book are still open until the 30th of July! In response to valuable […]]]></description>
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<p>I am excited to share that progress on the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” colouring book series is steadily moving forward. As we continue to work on this project, we want to remind you that entries for the book are still open until the 30th of July!</p>
<p>In response to valuable feedback from some individuals who expressed their preference for not drawing people, I have worked with individuals across the University to curate a gallery of images featuring the STEM facilities at the University of Edinburgh.</p>
<p>All of these images are released under an open license, allowing you to freely use them as references for your entries into the colouring book.</p>
<p>The entry submission period for the colouring book remains open until the 28th of July. We encourage you to carefully review our entry guidelines, which can be found <a href="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/colouring-book-contest/">here.</a></p>
<p>We are immensely grateful for your interest and enthusiasm in this project, and we look forward to receiving your creative contributions. Together, let’s celebrate the wonders of science through the pages of the “We Have Great Stuff” colouring book!</p>
<p>Remember, the deadline for submissions is the 28th of July. We can’t wait to see your amazing artwork!</p>
<h2>Check out the photos here:</h2>
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<p>Huge thanks to these individuals for taking the time to give me tours and chat with me:</p>
<p><strong>Jenny Gracie:</strong> Widening Participation and Outreach Officer, School of Chemistry</p>
<p><strong>Sarah Ressel:</strong> Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Infection and Immunology Research</p>
<p><strong>Frances Blow:</strong> Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute of Infection and Immunology Research</p>
<p><strong>Maria Fanourgiaki:</strong> Science Communicator, School of Biological Sciences</p>
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<p>Happy drawing!</p>
<p>-Ally</p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 5</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Today, I had the privilege of sitting down with ten exceptional women in the field of Physics at the University of Edinburgh. During our conversation, we discussed their experiences, research, and remarkable achievements. I want to extend a special thanks to Jean-Christophe Denis, who organised this meeting. A Chat With Professor MacPhee Firstly, I […]]]></description>
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<p>Today, I had the privilege of sitting down with ten exceptional women in the field of Physics at the University of Edinburgh. During our conversation, we discussed their experiences, research, and remarkable achievements. I want to extend a special thanks to Jean-Christophe Denis, who organised this meeting.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1971 aligncenter" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait.png" alt="" width="328" height="464" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait.png 2481w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-212x300.png 212w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-724x1024.png 724w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-768x1086.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-1086x1536.png 1086w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-1448x2048.png 1448w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Kait-1440x2036.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 328px) 100vw, 328px" /></p>
<h2>A Chat With Professor MacPhee</h2>
<p>Firstly, I had the pleasure of speaking with Cait MacPhee, an accomplished professor in biological physics and experimental molecular biophysics. She is also the co-director of the National Biofilms Innovation Centre. MacPhee, who became the first female professor in the School of Physics at Edinburgh, shared her inspiring journey in STEM:</p>
<blockquote><p>“There is no standard journey. You’ll hear different stories from different people… I initially pursued biology but found it challenging. Eventually, I decided to switch to physics for my Ph.D. as it made more sense to me, and I enjoy working with numbers.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Having been at the University of Edinburgh for 18 years, MacPhee has witnessed significant changes within the department during her tenure.</p>
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<p>Reflecting on the past, MacPhee discussed the absence of maternity policies when she worked at a previous institution and was pregnant with her first child. The department was uncertain about how to address this situation, leading to chaotic circumstances. However, as senior male staff members have began prioritising childcare responsibilities, policies and procedures have been put in place to support out-of-work responsibilities, including childcare. MacPhee acknowledged the progress made, recounting instances of being the only woman in the room or being overlooked by male peers, while emphasising the significant improvements that have taken place.</p>
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<p>In our conversation, I asked MacPhee about the policies and infrastructure required to encourage women to enter and thrive in STEM fields. She emphasised that real change can be achieved by starting at the grassroots level:</p>
<blockquote><p>“When children are turned off from pursuing sciences, it often happens at an early age, even before they reach secondary school. Thus, a lot of work needs to be done in primary schools, which is a particular passion of mine.”</p></blockquote>
<p>MacPhee noted that girls often receive subconscious messaging in schools that leads to repetitive thought patterns discouraging them from pursuing STEM. With a majority of teachers in arts and humanities, young girls can naturally gravitate towards the arts without proper exposure to sciences in the curriculum. She believes that schools need to empower and train their staff to integrate STEM more closely and equally into their curriculum. This involves empowering teachers to deliver science programs themselves, addressing the lack of confidence often observed.</p>
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<p>Despite the challenges and obstacles encountered, MacPhee emphasised her deep love for her work:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I genuinely enjoy what I do. I’m amazed that they pay me to do this job. The element of discovery is exhilarating. When you know something that nobody else in the world knows and have figured it out, there’s nothing quite like that feeling.”</p></blockquote>
<p>One of MacPhee’s “lightbulb” moments came during her extensive studies of biofilms, which are slimy nests of organisms found in various environments. Studying their water-repellent mechanisms led her to make ground-breaking discoveries previously unknown in biology.</p>
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<h2>A Chat with students and professors in physics</h2>
<p>Our conversation expanded as nine other exceptional women in physics joined us. The array of talent, dedication, and passion they brought to the discussion was truly remarkable. It was an absolute delight to explore their research and experiences and brainstorm ideas on how to encourage women in STEM across the university.</p>
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<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1969" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_9586-scaled.jpg" alt="" width="2560" height="1707" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_9586-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_9586-300x200.jpg 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_9586-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_9586-768x512.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_9586-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_9586-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_9586-1440x960.jpg 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /></p>
<p>Here is an introduction to the remarkable women who participated in the interview (from left to right, top to bottom):</p>
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<li><strong>Mylaine Holin:</strong> Ph.D. student studying extreme conditions</li>
<li><strong>Hannah Shuttleworth:</strong> Ph.D. student in physics researching condensed matter and complex systems</li>
<li><strong>Rosa Santomartino:</strong> Leverhulme Early Career Fellow researching astrobiology</li>
<li><strong>Marialuisa Aliotta:</strong> Professor of experimental nuclear astrophysics</li>
<li><strong>Sally Shaw:</strong> Lecturer in experimental particle physics</li>
<li><strong>Orianna Ball:</strong> Ph.D. student studying extreme conditions</li>
<li><strong>Estifa’a Zaid:</strong> Ph.D. student studying particle and nuclear physics</li>
<li><strong>Nisha Grewal:</strong> Ph.D. student in the School of Physics and Astronomy</li>
<li><strong>Holly Bridge:</strong> Ph.D. student studying soft matter physics</li>
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<h2>Why did you choose to pursue STEM?</h2>
<p>To gain insights into their motivations, I asked the group about their journeys into STEM. Marialuisa Aliotta shared that she initially aspired to be a ballerina but her brother’s scientific inclinations inspired her to pursue physics and become an academic. Rosa, driven by her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut, embarked on a postdoctoral research journey in astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh. Sally, fascinated by space from a young age, found her perfect blend of astrophysics and particle physics in studying dark matter. Holly’s passion for math led her to begin her Ph.D. in physics, focusing on modelling individual-based simulations for bacteria and wastewater treatment. Hannah conducts experimental high-pressure experiments, simulating conditions akin to the centre of the Earth using diamond-tipped tools. Mylaine’s fascination with the universe’s scale and gas giant planets propelled her to study physics. Orianna, inspired by enthusiastic teachers during her schooling and her sister, conducts research on extreme conditions using the diamond anvil technique. Nisha’s affinity for mathematics led her to pursue astrophysics as a Ph.D. student to deepen her understanding of the world. Estifa’a, driven by her early enjoyment of mathematics, conducts particle physics experiments.</p>
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<p>When discussing role models, Rosa mentioned having an astronaut living in her building during her childhood, which left an indelible impression. Others agreed that looking up to researchers and teachers played a vital role in encouraging their pursuit of STEM.</p>
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<h2>Have you encountered any obstacles?</h2>
<p>Our conversation also touched upon the experiences and obstacles faced by these remarkable women in their respective fields. Marialuisa recalled joining the department in 2001 as the sole female staff member in her department at the time:</p>
<blockquote><p>“When I came to Edinburgh in 2001, I was the only female member of staff for the first six years. It felt somewhat lonely, and I struggled to engage with my all-male academic counterparts. However, conditions have significantly improved since then, although challenges still persist.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The group concurred that having mentors and role models is instrumental in achieving success as women in their fields. Nisha emphasized the importance of seeing women in positions of influence and demonstrating that it is possible. Supportive mentors played a vital role in Estifa’a’s journey, instilling confidence and fostering a belief in her capabilities.</p>
<p>The women highlighted community programs like Soapbox Science and the film “Picture A Scientist” as initiatives that encourage and showcase women in STEM fields.</p>
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<h2>What advice do you give to the next generation of women in STEM?</h2>
<p>When asked for advice for young women pursuing STEM, Sally advised ignoring anyone who suggests they are just filling a quota, emphasising that they deserve their place. Hannah stressed the importance of not comparing oneself to others, as she had initially viewed certain male counterparts as an elite group. Rosa emphasised that perfection should not be the end goal, encouraging young women to find supportive mentors and acknowledging that imperfection is acceptable.</p>
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<p>The women also underscored the significance of forming friendships with fellow women in STEM. Holly noted the positive impact that conversations with peers experiencing similar situations can have, encouraging those who may be shy to push themselves and seek out these connections.</p>
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<h2>Progress and Persistence</h2>
<p>In conclusion, the experiences, insights, and achievements shared by these incredible women at the University of Edinburgh highlight the progress made and the evolving landscape for women in STEM.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 3</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> Welcome back to another update on the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” coloring book series. I’m excited to share the highlights of our recent workshop and give you a glimpse of the incredible artwork created by our participants. We kicked off our month of coloring book workshops with the first session […]]]></description>
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<p>Welcome back to another update on the third edition of the “We Have Great Stuff” coloring book series. I’m excited to share the highlights of our recent workshop and give you a glimpse of the incredible artwork created by our participants.</p>
<p>We kicked off our month of coloring book workshops with the first session focusing on creating digital illustrations using Sketchpad. It was a great success, with 10 individuals participating. I was impressed by the talent and dedication of our participants, especially considering that many of them were creating digital art for the first time.</p>
<p>The workshop began with a short demonstration, followed by an introduction to UoE’s women in STEM. Participants then dove into the world of Sketchpad, learning to master Bezier curves and anchor points. It was no easy feat, but I witnessed their progress firsthand as they gained confidence and created stunning digital illustrations.</p>
<p>While there were a few hiccups during the workshop, overall, I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome. The participants’ enthusiasm and the quality of their work were truly remarkable.</p>
<p>Looking ahead, I’m excited to announce that the next workshop will be held this Wednesday and will focus on traditional pen-and-ink illustration. Additionally, we have an online digital art workshop planned for next week. In the coming days, I’ll be touring various STEM facilities, capturing photos to showcase the remarkable staff and facilities we have at our university.</p>
<p>Huge thank you to everyone who came along to last week’s workshop, and if you missed it, check out our <a href="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/events/">events page</a> to sign up for an upcoming workshop, and don’t forget to enter your submissions before the 28th!</p>
<p>I hope you’re enjoying the summer weather as much as I am. It’s a great time to explore your creativity and dive into the world of art. Stay tuned for more updates and inspiring artwork from our workshops.</p>
<p>Take care!<br />
-Ally</p>
<h2>Hard at work!</h2>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1951" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317.png" alt="" width="616" height="462" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317.png 4032w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6317-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px" /></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1952" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318.png" alt="" width="617" height="463" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318.png 4032w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-300x225.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1024x768.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-768x576.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1536x1152.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-2048x1536.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/IMG_6318-1440x1080.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px" /></p>
<h2>A sneak peak at some submissions:</h2>
<p>Sharon Chen’s incredible portrait of Noreen Murray, co-creator of the world’s first genetically modified vaccine.</p>
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<li><strong>Photo credits:</strong> Photograph of Kenneth and Noreen Murray, photographic print, provided by the Murray Archive, University of Edinburgh [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noreen_Murray#/media/File:Noreen_Murray_(cropped).jpg] CC by 3.0</li>
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<div id="attachment_1771" style="width: 367px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1771" class=" wp-image-1771" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Noreen_Murray_cropped.jpeg" alt="Noreen Murray wears a polka dot scarf, hat, and buttoned jacket while she looks ahead." width="357" height="562" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Noreen_Murray_cropped.jpeg 558w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Noreen_Murray_cropped-191x300.jpeg 191w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1771" class="wp-caption-text">Noreen Murray: Co-Creator of the World’s First Genetically Modified Vaccine</p></div>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1955 alignleft" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/SharonChen.png" alt="" width="391" height="553" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/SharonChen.png 724w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/SharonChen-212x300.png 212w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px" /></p>
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<p>Margarita Boyko’s beautiful portrait of Jennie Lee, member of parliment.</p>
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<li><strong>Photo credits:</strong> 1929, Jennie Lee, photographic print, provided by Illustrated London News Digital Archive via Wikimedia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jennie_Lee.jpg#/media/File:Jennie_Lee.jpg] Public domain image</li>
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<div id="attachment_1786" style="width: 286px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1786" class=" wp-image-1786" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Jennie_Lee-1.jpeg" alt="Black and white yearbook photo of Jennie Lee" width="276" height="389" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Jennie_Lee-1.jpeg 515w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Jennie_Lee-1-213x300.jpeg 213w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px" /><p id="caption-attachment-1786" class="wp-caption-text">Jennie Lee: Pioneering Member of Parliament</p></div>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1954" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Drawing_1_sketchpad.jpeg" alt="" width="280" height="396" /></p>
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<p>And I’ve been working on creating colouring pages of the women who don’t have any open licenced images available, starting with Lillian Lindsay, the first female dentist in the UK.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1960" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally.png" alt="" width="382" height="540" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally.png 3308w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-212x300.png 212w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-724x1024.png 724w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-768x1086.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-1086x1536.png 1086w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-1448x2048.png 1448w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/lillianlindsay-byally-1440x2036.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 382px) 100vw, 382px" /></p>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 2</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span>Deadline: Friday, July 28th Contest Description This is your chance to be a part of the We Have Good Stuff Colouring Book series! We’re looking for illustrations inspired by the incredible women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) from the University of Edinburgh (UoE). Help us to highlight exceptional women and their extraordinary achievements […]]]></description>
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<h2 style="text-align: start">Contest Description</h2>
<p style="text-align: start">This is your chance to be a part of the We Have Good Stuff Colouring Book series! We’re looking for illustrations inspired by the incredible women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) from the University of Edinburgh (UoE).</p>
<p style="text-align: start">Help us to highlight exceptional women and their extraordinary achievements by creating black and white line drawings inspired by the images published on our online database (longlist). Submit your entry for the chance to be a published illustrator and win prizes!</p>
<p style="text-align: start">Keep watching this blog for more information and examples. Here are some previous colouring book pages from the last two editions.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1907" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/51591208796_241bbfef12_c.jpg" alt="" width="236" height="335" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/51591208796_241bbfef12_c.jpg 563w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/51591208796_241bbfef12_c-211x300.jpg 211w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1904" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248315_d03491be93_c.jpg" alt="" width="237" height="336" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248315_d03491be93_c.jpg 564w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248315_d03491be93_c-212x300.jpg 212w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1905" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248715_7729430d4d_c.jpg" alt="" width="238" height="336" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248715_7729430d4d_c.jpg 566w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/46763248715_7729430d4d_c-212x300.jpg 212w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px" /></p>
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<p style="text-align: start">Remember, entries are due by the 28th of July!</p>
<p style="text-align: start">Don’t miss this great opportunity to contribute to the We Have Good Stuff Colouring Book series and celebrate women in STEM.</p>
<p style="text-align: start">All experiences and abilities are welcome!</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: start">Entry Guidelines</h2>
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<li>Entrants must utilize the images available on our blog and must not include any copyrighted imagery in their entries.</li>
<li>Submissions must be done in black and white and must be outline only (no shading). See examples here.</li>
<li>Submissions must be A4 (210mm x 297mm), 300dpi</li>
<li>Landscape or portrait will be accepted. · Submissions must be entered online to our submission portal by the 28th of July.</li>
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<p style="text-align: start">We will attempt to share and publish as many valid entries as possible (i.e. physical book and online repositories), but the final decision will be made by the project team.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: start">Pre-Requisites</h2>
<p>We’ll be providing workshops through the month of July, so feel free to come to those for demonstrations on how to create digital images and an overview of our selected image database. Please note however, that it is not required to attend these in order to enter.</p>
<p>You are welcome to use any method of illustrating you prefer, e.g. Adobe Illustrator or Procreate, but we will be hosting workshops on Sketchpad and traditional illustration.</p>
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<h2 style="text-align: start">2023 Workshops</h2>
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<li style="text-align: start">Wednesday, July 5th: Digital Art Making Workshop (In person, Argyle House, room E13)</li>
<li style="text-align: start">Wednesday, July 12th: Traditional Art Making Workshop (In person, Evolution House, room 4.10)</li>
<li style="text-align: start">Wednesday, July 19th: Online Art Making Workshop (Online)</li>
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<h3 style="text-align: start">Prizes</h3>
<p style="text-align: start">There are a host of prizes available to participants, including books, art materials, and exclusive merchandise.</p>
<p style="text-align: start">All entrants will have the opportunity to be featured in a published work.</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: start">Eligibility</h3>
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<li style="text-align: start">All UoE staff</li>
<li style="text-align: start">All UoE students</li>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> < 1</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minute</span></span>Use this image bank to discover some of the University of Edinburgh’s wonderful women in science, technology, engineering, and maths! Click on each photo to find out more about each woman’s career and achievements. STEM Gallery Jun 27, 2023]]></description>
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<p>Click on each photo to find out more about each woman’s career and achievements.</p>
<h2>STEM Gallery</h2>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/agnessavage-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AgnesSavage-1-e1687266597726-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/annie_numbers-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Annie_Numbers-1-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Annie Hutton Numbers wears a graduation robe and hat, standing in front of a wooden wall." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/miller-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/miller-1-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Christina Cruikshank Miller in her graduation robe" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/ella_ferrier_pringle_in_1909-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Ella_Ferrier_Pringle_in_1909-1-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Isabella Pringle rests her head on her hand. She is wearing graduation robes and her hair is braided." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/elsie_inglis/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglis-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Elsie Inglis looks at the viewer. She is wearing a buttoned jacket, tie, and hat with plaid ribbon." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/jennie_lee-2/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Jennie_Lee-1-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Black and white yearbook photo of Jennie Lee" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/gertrude-hertz/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-150x150.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Gertrude Hertz wears a lab coat and points to a scientific figure on a black board." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/honor-fell/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Honor Fell sits smiling at her microscope" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/matildajclerk/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/MatildaJClerk-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Matilda J Clerk in her graduation gown" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/macmillan_chrystal_1908-1914_22704149049/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Macmillan_Chrystal_1908-1914_22704149049-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Chrystal MacMillan looks into the camera wearing a victorian lace dress with a brooch" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/marionross/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/marionross-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Marion Ross sits in a chair" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/auerbach1/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/auerbach1-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Charlotte Auerbach sits at her desk with a typewriter and cup of tea" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/1024px-bessie_watson_aged_9/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/1024px-Bessie_Watson_aged_9-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Young Bessie Watson stands wearing a kilt, playing the bagpipes, with a"Votes for Women" sash." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/marybruk/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/marybruk-150x150.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Mary Brück looks through a telescope" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/sophia_jex-blake_as_a_young_woman/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Sophia_Jex-Blake_as_a_young_woman-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Sophia Jex Blake as a young woman, writing at her desk" /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/brenda_moon/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/07/Brenda_Moon-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Brenda Moon stands with a cane in her garden, touching a rose, wearing a floral dress and smiling." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/women-in-stem-image-database/profeleanorcampbellmugshot/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/ProfEleanorCampbellmugshot-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Eleanor Campbell smiles into the camera with a body of water and some grass behind her." /></a>
<a href='https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/photo-on-26-03-2020-at-13-20-5/'><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="150" height="150" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Photo-on-26-03-2020-at-13.20-5-e1687267542904-150x150.jpg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail" alt="Jane wears a red cardigan and glasses." /></a>
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<description><![CDATA[<span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 5</span> <span class="rt-label rt-postfix">minutes</span></span> As we prepare to bring you the third edition of the We Have Great Stuff colouring book series, we are considering new ways to update the format and reflect changing technology. This year’s theme, STEM, naturally lends itself to the incorporation of the buzz word of the year– Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI is now […]]]></description>
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<p>As we prepare to bring you the third edition of the We Have Great Stuff colouring book series, we are considering new ways to update the format and reflect changing technology. This year’s theme, STEM, naturally lends itself to the incorporation of the buzz word of the year– Artificial Intelligence (AI).</p>
<p>AI is now touted as the miraculous tool that can enhance productivity, manage schedules, book flights, and even assist in meal planning. However, along with its popularity, AI has sparked significant controversy surrounding its ethical implications. Artists and creatives have expressed valid and pressing concerns about this highly innovative software.</p>
<h2><strong>What’s the Problem with AI? </strong></h2>
<p>One of the early achievements of AI was its ability to create “generative” images, combining various works to create entirely new visuals. While this may seem like a fascinating feat, it becomes problematic when we realize that this process often uses images posted online without consideration for copyright, proper attribution, or ethical compensation to the original artists.</p>
<h2><strong>An Expert Opinion</strong></h2>
<p>As an artist myself, this is a valid concern. Will there be any job opportunities for graduates like me with a design degree, or will they all be taken over by AI bots?</p>
<p>To see if I could incorporate AI into the colouring book, I decided to meet with two AI interns from ISG, Wietske Holwerda and Bartlomeij Pohorecki. Their unanimous response to my query was, “probably not.”</p>
<p>The AI team explained that the current state of AI is not advanced enough to be effectively employed in real projects like our colouring book. The images generated by popular AI tools like Deep AI and Dall-E may lack real-world accuracy, a critical aspect for a project like the colouring book which is centred around real individuals and technologies. Additionally, the sourcing of these AI-generated images raises concerns of copyright infringement, which could have serious consequences for a published open-source work.</p>
<p>However, they encouraged me to experiment and see what I could create.</p>
<h2><strong>Let’s Give it a Try</strong></h2>
<p>First, I tried <a href="https://openai.com/dall-e-2">Dall-E</a>, OpenAI’s image generation tool, which was among the first available online. Dall-E utilizes natural language descriptions to generate images based on requests and has been widely used for image creation.</p>
<p>I requested Dall-E to create colouring book pages featuring UoE’s very own Crystal Macmillan. The results were not terrible but fell short of expectations. The software lacked the ability to capture a reference or produce a likeness of a notable individual, making it challenging to use in a book filled with prominent personalities.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1875" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp.png" alt="" width="2887" height="2119" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp.png 2887w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-300x220.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-1024x752.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-768x564.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-1536x1127.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-2048x1503.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/AI-images-comp-1440x1057.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2887px) 100vw, 2887px" /></p>
<p>Another feature of Dall-E is the ability to edit existing images. I uploaded an image of Chrystal Macmillan to Dall-E, resulting in an army of look-alikes but nothing too helpful for the project.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1849" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09.png" alt="" width="2469" height="543" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09.png 2469w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-300x66.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-1024x225.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-768x169.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-1536x338.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-2048x450.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-21-at-11.47.09-1440x317.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2469px) 100vw, 2469px" /></p>
<p>Thinking that modifying an existing image might be the best approach for this project, I turned to <a href="https://www.adobe.com/sensei/generative-ai/firefly.html">Adobe Firefly</a>, an AI tool currently in beta testing by Adobe, that has been integrated into the latest version of Photoshop. This tool has significantly democratized AI accessibility for designers and creatives who already utilize adobe products every day.</p>
<p>I asked Adobe Firefly to extend a few of my images, and the results were amazing!</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1763" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz.png" alt="Gertrude Hertz wears a lab coat and points to a scientific figure on a black board." width="207" height="278" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz.png 978w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-224x300.png 224w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-763x1024.png 763w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-768x1030.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1860" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit.png" alt="" width="427" height="278" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit.png 2016w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit-300x195.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit-1024x666.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit-768x500.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit-1536x1000.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertz-edit-1440x937.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px" /></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1764" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell.jpeg" alt="Honor Fell sits smiling at her microscope" width="205" height="286" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell.jpeg 512w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-215x300.jpeg 215w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1862" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-expanded.png" alt="" width="443" height="286" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-expanded.png 1110w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-expanded-300x194.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-expanded-1024x661.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-fell-expanded-768x495.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px" /></p>
<p>However, there were some issues when it came to specific details. AI lacks an understanding of space and depth, which led to some peculiar additions to Honor’s lab. Additionally, the tool tended to add creepy humanoid figures, as evidenced by those added to Gertrude and Elsie’s image.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1861" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1.png" alt="" width="298" height="194" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1.png 2016w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1-300x195.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1-1024x666.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1-768x500.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1-1536x1000.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit1-1440x937.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1863" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-felledit2.png" alt="" width="300" height="193" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-felledit2.png 1110w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-felledit2-300x194.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-felledit2-1024x661.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/honor-felledit2-768x495.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1872" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218.jpg" alt="" width="297" height="199" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218.jpg 2560w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-300x201.jpg 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-1024x686.jpg 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-768x515.jpg 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-1536x1029.jpg 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-2048x1372.jpg 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/Elsie_Inglisedit3-scaled-e1687440057218-1440x965.jpg 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-1869" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2.png" alt="" width="304" height="198" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2.png 2016w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2-300x195.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2-1024x666.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2-768x500.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2-1536x1000.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/gertrude-hertzedit2-1440x937.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 304px) 100vw, 304px" /></p>
<p>Next, I explored “<a href="https://www.fotor.com/">Fotor</a>,” a free and accessible online platform for AI image generation and manipulation. Fotor offered a remarkable black and white colorization tool, using AI logic to colorize lack and white photos. This worked well on the picture of Charlotte Auerbach but fell short when applied to Jessie MacGregor or Noreen Murray..</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1879" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2.png" alt="" width="3129" height="1150" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2.png 3129w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-300x110.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-1024x376.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-768x282.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-1536x565.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-2048x753.png 2048w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/comp2-1440x529.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 3129px) 100vw, 3129px" /></p>
<p>In summary, I find myself breathing a sigh of relief. Creatives, your jobs are safe, at least for now. AI is undoubtedly proving to be a powerful tool, but it is not without its complications.</p>
<p>However, there is a world of fun to be had when it comes to creating unusual AI altered images.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1884 alignnone" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1.png" alt="" width="333" height="227" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1-300x204.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1-1024x697.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1-768x523.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets4-1-1440x981.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px" /> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1883 alignnone" src="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1.png" alt="" width="333" height="227" srcset="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1.png 1536w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1-300x204.png 300w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1-1024x697.png 1024w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1-768x523.png 768w, https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/colouring-books/wp-content/uploads/sites/1225/2023/06/DollyTriplets3-1-1440x981.png 1440w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><em>Dolly and friends travel the world</em></p>
<h2><strong>So, what does this mean for the book?</strong></h2>
<p>When it comes to image generation, it may not be in the project’s best interest to rely too heavily on AI. Not only will it complicate our ability to licence the book’s images, it will produce images that simply aren’t as good as what any of you could come up with.</p>
<p>And when it comes to including AI in University work, the best practice is to of course use the helpful <a href="https://www.ed.ac.uk/bayes/ai-guidance-for-staff-and-students">AI guidance</a> published onto the University website, which covers use cases, citations, and best practices.</p>
<p>This is why we need participants like you more than ever to help us amplify the stories of UoE’s fantastic women in STEM and create hand-made, ethically sourced illustrations. Stay tuned for information on upcoming events and how to get involved in this project.</p>
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