Sustainable regeneration development partnership with Dubai
A key partnership between the British University in Dubai (BUiD) and the University of Edinburgh is shedding new light on future city sustainable regeneration.
Wellbeing in the curriculum and the potential at University of Edinburgh
We developed a briefing paper called “Wellbeing in the curriculum and the potential at University of Edinburgh”, which has been co-authored by colleagues from across the University of Edinburgh whose work relates to student support, clinical psychology, global health, wellbeing and compassion.
Edinburgh Lead Well Project
The Edinburgh Lead Well Project is creating a university-wide transformative learning experience across the University of Edinburgh to empower graduates to lead societal transformation from a place of positive wellbeing.
Digital Footprints and Search Pathways: AHRC-funded project explores access to online cultural heritage
Analysing the digital pathways of visitors to Scottish museums and galleries’ websites during the recent pandemic lockdowns, this project aims to establish what attracts visitors, which pathways lead to engagement (Google Arts and Culture, Art UK etc), and how different stages of the pandemic affected interaction.
Hearing History
Hearing Histories brings the musical past to life, using the archaeological and historical record to reconstruct lost performance spaces and to hear them resounding, once again, with music.
Practical applications of IIIF as a building block towards a digital national collection
This is a ‘foundation’ project for a major AHRC programme – Towards a National Collection. It is exploring the possibilities of the International Interoperability Framework (IIIF) to support the dissemination of born digital and digitised heritage images for research and engagement.
Gaelic Handwriting Recognition Project
The Gaelic Handwriting Recognition Project is converting 500k words of traditional narrative documents to digital text and training the first automatic handwriting recogniser for the Gaelic language, using the Transkribus platform.
Curious Edinburgh
Curious Edinburgh is a website and mobile phone app which tells stories behind the city’s many historic buildings and places.
Reanimating Data: Experiments with people, places and data
Dr Niamh Moore is part of the Reanimating Data project team, working with a set of interviews with young women created in the wake of the aids crisis as part of a social research study conducted in 1988-90: the Women, Risk & AIDS project.
Living Histories of Sugar
Living Histories of Sugar invites audiences across the Atlantic to be immersed in the sights and sounds of historical characters: from sugar barons and refinery owners, to enslaved and ‘free’ people, sugar refinery workers and their wives. This performance encourages Caribbean and Scottish audiences to contest, re-signify or otherwise rework the historical record.
