News

Since March 2020 we have been bringing our collective expertise to the academic COVID response, within our own university, sector-wide and globally.  The following summarises our contribution and provides links to our ongoing work.

Research

Pandemic interaction and communication

Online training programme for research partners in Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania

The Digital Footprints and Search Pathways project has been funded as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council Towards a National Collection programme for new digital research into the impact of COVID-19 on the heritage sector.

The project will study the digital footprints of users in two national collections – National Museums of Scotland and National Galleries of Scotland – to explore:

Image: James Lamb

Teaching Matters

The University of Edinburgh blog, promoting, discussing and celebrating teaching at the University of Edinburgh features articles this month by two academics from the Centre for Research in Digital Education.

Bringing Politics Back in to Plans for the Digital Transformation of Higher Education, 22nd January 2021

Access the event recording for Dr Francesca Sobande's seminar held on 13th January 2021.

My name is Hugh O’Donnell and I am a Secondary English Teacher of English at Port Glasgow High School, Inverclyde.

Co-designing with speculative data stories: higher education after surveillance