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International Women’s Day: Dr Jeeva Reeba John

International Women’s Day celebrates women’s achievements, raises awareness against bias and encourages action for equality. One of the missions of International Women’s Day 2021 is ‘to assist women…

Coming out in high school, as a teacher

It started with the daily bulletin. Every day in a school does… “The LGBT Group will meet in A18. Anyone interested in Equality is welcome” “Surely we don’t…

Why LGBT+ visibility and awareness in the workplace is so important

When I joined the University in 2012 as a research technician, LGBT+ visibility was fairly minimal at work. Before I moved to Edinburgh, I had been out as…

Why I’m passionate about being an LGBT+ ally

I’m a neuroscientist at the University of Edinburgh studying brain changes in Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders. One of the absolute best things about being a scientist is…

Bi and pansexual folk belong in STEM, as they do anywhere else

I’m a bisexual scientist. It’s only fairly recently that I’ve said that out loud, and I thought I’d say a bit about why that is and why I’m…

A little slice of me for LGBT+ History Month

Mention Stonewall, Marsha P Johnson or Harvey Milk, Terence Higgins, Peter Tatchell or Allan Horsfall in the presence of some ‘BabyGays’ (a term used for the younger LGBT+…

Being my true self and not my censored self at work in the NHS

Hi I’m Gordon and I’ve been an openly gay man for nearly 20 years now. I’m a nurse and have been for 17 years, and I’m also a…

Extraordinary team working in desperate times

Dr Graham Nimmo tells us about the development of COVID-19 Critical Care: Understanding and Application short online course. Graham and his colleague David Griffiths were joint winners of…

Profile: Chancellor’s Fellows 2021

Forty of the University’s most promising early career researchers have been awarded prestigious fellowships to develop their innovative work. The new Chancellor’s Fellows have been selected from across…

Immunity memory: creating animations

The Centre for Inflammation Research recently partnered with the British Society for Immunology to present a three-part animated series on the human immune system and how immune memories…

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