The Academic Support Librarians are a learning team, who have attended professional development events in line with the prioritised themes …Continue reading →
Read moreTo add to our recent schedule of conference reports, last month several members of our team attend the Scottish Confederation …Continue reading →
Read moreI attended the online CALC25 [Critical Approaches to Libraries] Conference from 13 – 15 May 2025. The programme, slides and …Continue reading →
Read moreOn Tuesday 18 June, I flew half way around the world to attend the Atla conference in Long Beach, California. …Continue reading →
Read moreAs part of Black History Month at the Library, we have trial access to ProQuest Black Studies. Developed with faculty, …Continue reading →
Read moreIn January the School of Law was fortunate to host the book launch event for Professor Folúkẹ́ Adébísí’s Decolonisation and …Continue reading →
Read moreI attended the CALC Conference on 24th and 25th May and can thoroughly recommend this annual event to other professionals …Continue reading →
Read moreI asked my excellent Data and Equality Officer to look at our demographics again. I wanted to know if my attempts to diversify the LTW workforce by sex, ethnicity and age were having an impact. She looked at data since 2015. Proportions of staff in different groups (age, contract type, disability, ethnicity, sex, and nationality) …
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I was very pleased to be able to deliver this conference workshop with Lilinaz as a pre-conference workshop for UCISA’s Women in Tech Group Conference in October. It is another of the UCISA CPD sessions and builds on data we collected last year about demographic differences in lockdown At the University of Edinburgh, we conducted University-wide …
Read moreWell, it’s been another week, and so far, so ranty. I read Lorna Campbell’s excellent blog post on sustaining an ethic of care in HE. In it she called out many of the existing inequities that have been exacerbated by COVID. “Meanwhile the pandemic has … Continue reading I think you’re (repeatedly) (willfully) missing the point…
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