300 Faces
I was recently invited to the ‘300 Faces of Edinburgh Medical School’ launch event. Marking the 300th anniversary of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, this exhibition c…
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Digital Accessibility Intern
If you are interested in helping users and people, we have an interesting summer internship for you which is about checking our services to make sure they are as accessible as they can be for all our users.
Read moreInteractive Women in STEM tour
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. For Ada Lovelace Day 2025, Jackie, Magda and Stewart created the ‘Interactive Women in STEM tour’ game for everyone to play.
Read moreMoira Dunbar
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. For Ada Lovelace Day 2025 I created a colouring-in illustration of Moira Dunbar (1918-1999), the pioneering Scottish-Canadian glaciologist and Arctic sea-ice researcher.
Read moreIn Their Own Time
Challenging conventional funding structures to include intersectionally underrepresented casualised academics. The Interactive Content team help launch a new digital comic resource.
Read moreASPIRING study website
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. The Interactive Content team within Information Services designed and published the ASPIRING study website on behalf of Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman from the CCBS (Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh).
Read moreSharing My Story
Estimated reading time: < 1 minute. It’s been a busy, but rewarding, week at work and home. In the last 24 hours The Lego Group have published two personal videos documenting my sight loss disability and love for building with Braille bricks.
Read moreH5P Awards 2025 Nomination
I am very pleased to say I have been nominated in the “Community Choice” category in the H5P Awards 2025, for the most innovative #H5P project of the year. Five Years of Sight Loss: A Heartfelt and Interactive Diary – by Stewart Lamb Cromar (The University of Edinburgh) Please consider voting to support my entry […]
Read moreDigital Accessibility Intern
If you are interested in helping users and people, we have an interesting summer internship for you which is about checking our services to make sure they are as accessible as they can be for all our users.
Read moreFive Years of Sight Loss
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. Over the last five years I have written personal blog posts detailing my traumatic sight loss journey. To help others better understand the significant changes in my vision I also created a series of interactive simulations (H5P files).
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