We have made some updates to the JISC Digital Skills Discovery Tool to make selecting your school or department within the university simpler. The Discovery Tool is an interactive questionnaire that identifies your Digital Skills Capability ratings, highlighting strengths, and areas for improvement. Existing users: We need you to update your Discovery Tool Department! Follow these easy steps to complete this process: Open the […]
The Graphic Design Service has provided design services to staff across the university for 20+ years. While there have been multiple iterations of this service, our designers have over 60 years combined service to the University of Edinburgh. I am incredibly proud to manage this service. Much of the work my team do, is hidden in […]
On Thursday 26th and Friday 27th of February 2026 I have the privilege of attending the COPIM 2026 conference online. Copim is a community of people and organisations who collaborate on community-led and values driven initiatives, which help to support open access authors, publishers and readers. About | Copim I found myself at this conference, […]
As someone who is really interested in developmental psychology, I often find myself thinking about how different tools shape our habits and influence our cognitive behaviours, particularly when it comes to thinking and learning. The kind of thinking I’m referring to is the kind that happens when you’re halfway through solving a problem or trying […]
This year’s Digifest conference in Birmingham has just wrapped up, and my brain is buzzing with ideas. The 2026 theme, ‘From disruption to direction’, landed exactly where my head has been at lately. As I attend talks and workshops, I tend to map what I’m hearing to the work our team is doing back at […]
This year’s University Mental Health Day theme is ‘human connection’. So of course, we have to start with the (arguably?) opposite: Artificial Intelligence! AI-driven chatbots have become a popular mental health advice source amidst lack of other support and a growing sense of disconnection and loneliness. AI and mental health Mental health advice The […]
As part of our Open Education Week activities, Charlie caught up with Leam Howe, about the SatSchool Earth Observation outreach programme. Leam is one of the University of Edinburgh PhD Researchers involved in running the SatSchool programme. SatSchool create educational resources and take them out to schools in order as part of education outreach on worldwide geography, ecosystems, climate and the impacts of human activity through satellite observation, and using materials created by current researchers.
Continuing our research led focus for Open Education Week ’26, this collection highlights excellent research informed OERs for Further Education, Higher Education, and continuous professional development students and learners. Many of these open resources were created as part of the University’s free short online courses.
Our first collection for Open Education Week 26 highlights excellent OERs for Primary and Secondary level learners created using research undertaken by University of Edinburgh staff and postgraduate student researchers. Many of these resources include information about the researchers involved in their co-creation to help engage young learners with the real world of research.
On Thursday, 26 February 2026, the University of Edinburgh’s Digital Research Services welcomed colleagues from across disciplines to the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) for the Second Annual Digital Research Conference—a day that made one thing clear: digital research is no longer a niche specialism, but the connective tissue running through modern scholarship. From the moment […]
