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Kinghorn v Wood and the origins of trusts in Scotland – Edinburgh Private Law Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/private-law/2023/10/09/kinghorn-v-wood-and-the-origins-of-trusts-in-scotland/

09 Oct 2023: by León Carmona Fontaine, PhD Student at Edinburgh Law School. If there was a Scottish case from the 1620s in which a Scottish court had decided that there was a sham ... However, I will leave this point, and the fact that Mr Wood’s gift embodied a

Policing the Lockdown in Cape Town – Policing the Lockdown

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/policingthelockdown-sipr/2020/05/08/policing-the-lockdown-in-cape-town/

08 May 2020: Mmeli Dube is an activist in Cape Town and a Political Studies PhD Candidate at the University of the Western Cape.

Week 7: assessment (notes) – Charlotte Bosseaux / An Edinburgh Model for Online Teaching

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/cbosseau_an-edinburgh-model-for-online-teaching/2020/06/08/week-7-assessment-notes/

08 Jun 2020: A Wikipedia entry on a new topic. ... A defined research proposal for submission to a PhD programme. Length of assessment: ‘Consider strict word limits or equivalent metrics, ones that skew lower than what has traditionally been the case

Update event: the future of prospective postgraduate taught programmes online provision (13 December) – Future student online experiences

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/update-event-future-prospective-postgraduate-taught-online-provision/

13 Nov 2023: field enquiries from prospective postgraduate taught students. manage digital channels targeting prospective postgraduate taught students, including degree finder entries . ... Prospective PhD research playback session 4 December 2023.

Can machine learning and satellite data help detect land use? – School of Mathematics

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/mathematics/2024/04/09/can-machine-learning-and-satellite-data-help-detect-land-use/

09 Apr 2024: After the satellite data had been pre-processed by Dave McKay from EPCC, the University’s and UK’s leading centre for supercomputing, I worked with Lucy Wells, a PhD student ... It offered additional development opportunities, including PhD

Design sprint 3 research summary: testing the breakdown of tuition fees – Future student online experiences

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/future-student-experience/design-sprint-3-research-summary-testing-the-breakdown-of-tuition-fees/

02 Jul 2021: Our prototype presented an ‘estimate your tuition fees’ feature within a degree finder entry page for a PGT programme. ... We have two more design sprints to go, entry requirements and scholarships, after which we will be consolidating everything

Digital housekeeping: Applying content management practices to improve digital sustainability – Website and Communications Blog

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/website-communications/digital-housekeeping-applying-content-management-practices-to-improve-digital-sustainability/

23 Jun 2025: throughout different stages in user journeys), and also considering the need to keep question whether content is necessary, and to remove content once it is surplus to user requirements . ... as lessening the environmental impact of multiple profiles that

Generating immersive large-scale virtual field work for Zoology students – Teaching Matters

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/teaching-matters/generating-immersive-large-scale-virtual-field-work-for-zoology-students/

12 Jan 2021: There are two key requirements for virtual fieldwork to be both successful and accessible. ... The second requirement is to be gentle with the constraints on the user.

(Out)reach for the stars! – Charlie Fraser / Geoscience Outreach Blogs

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/s1728085_geoscience-outreach-and-engagement-2023-2024flex/2023/10/25/outreach-for-the-stars/

25 Oct 2023: Here in Scotland, as long as you attain the average entry requirements in your penultimate year then you’re sure to receive an unconditional to university.

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

https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/scope/2021/02/17/bi-and-pansexual-folk-belong-in-stem-as-they-do-anywhere-else/

17 Feb 2021: career. I don’t even remember if I was out at work when I was doing my PhD – which I guess means I probably wasn’t. ... I was married by the middle of my PhD and was pregnant during my first postdoc.