Reading time: < 1 minuteThe University’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) has garnered a prestigious industry award for public humanities work that engages with communities. The CHCI Public Humanities Network’s 2025 Public Humanities Award for Leadership in Practice and Community recognises IASH’s Institute Project on Decoloniality (IPD), which ran from 2021 to …
Reading time: < 1 minuteCurriculum Transformation are hosting three Challenge and Experiential Learning Course workshops in February and March to kickstart course ideas and support new cross-School connections. You’ll find out more about the new course formats and go through a structured idea generation and refinement process with like-minded colleagues. We want to help …
Reading time: 3 minutesOver the last seven years, GENDER.ED has been a hub for showcasing and promoting excellence in gender and sexualities teaching, research, and knowledge exchange and impact. In that time, it has supported the design and launch of three pre-honours undergraduate courses, introduced a Postdoctoral Fellowship and hosted nine undergraduate interns …
Reading time: 3 minutesIt’s hard to ignore the pressing environmental challenges facing our world, from microplastics in our bloodstream, to biodiversity loss and our changing climate. Urgent action is required, but it’s often less clear what this means in practice at work. Our University has committed to achieving net zero carbon emissions by …
Reading time: 2 minutesDavid Carpenter, the group’s English Speaker of Other Languages Coordinator, explains: “We teach around 550 people every six months. There are so many refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in Edinburgh who need that opportunity but as a small charity, we didn’t have the money to hire halls.” Recognising this gap, …
Reading time: < 1 minuteNew international students are often more at risk of scams, because they may be unfamiliar with local laws or not know where to go for help and advice. However, anyone can be targeted. These scams are not just petty thefts but can involve life-changing sums, with students sometimes losing large …
