Black History Month UK is an annual event that celebrates the achievements of black Britons and people of colour throughout history.
In order to highlight this history we’ve curated a selection of open educational resources created by our staff and students on Black History in the UK.

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

Launched during Global Goals Week in September, ‘SDGs: Stories of impact’ is an exploratory publication from University and tells stories of some of the University’s meaningful contributions to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) over the past five years.

Reading Time: 4 minutesOn the 16th of September, I joined ALT’s “Open Education, AI and Populism – Revisited” online conference. The goal was to reflect back on the topics and discussions of ALT’s Open Education Conference 2025, and identify what new information is available, what has changed, and what progress has been made. Having not had the opportunity […]

For many students, Welcome Week is one of the most exciting weeks on the University calendar…and possibly of their University lives. Packed with excitement, nerves, intrigue and enthusiasm, there’s so much to see, do and take in. For our team, it’s also a highlight. It’s our chance to get out across campus, meet new students […]

This post was written by Nandita Soma Shekar, a Digital Skills Trainer Intern in the 2024/25 academic year. During her internship, Nandita designed and delivered the first-ever SQL courses offered by the Digital Skills team at the University of Edinburgh, creating both live and self-paced learning experiences for students and staff. When I joined the […]

Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia The fourth year of the Edinburgh Award for Digital Volunteering with Wikipedia concluded on 31st March 2025. Seven students (and one staff volunteer) completed this extracurricular digital research project amassing both the requisite 55-80 hours of volunteering time AND the significant & demonstrable impact in improving the topic coverage of their […]

This tutorial video is aimed for those who are new to the R programming language, the goal is to build a […]

Introduction People who attend Digital Skills Programme courses are asked to provide feedback by filling in an online form. In 2024/25 (19/06/24 – 18/06/25) we received 958 feedback form responses – an average of 80 responses a month. This was an increase compared to the average of 66 responses/month received in 2023/24. The majority of […]

Towards the end of my summer internship I’ve been working with a lot of words. Whether it be process documents, […]