It was my honour this weekend to be part of a Bat Mitzvah ceremony for the daughter of one of my oldest friends. The Bat Mitzvah girl has grown into an engaging, lively, curious and clever young woman and it was lovely to see her take this step into adulthood as she comes of age. …
Read moreI was delighted to be invited out to our beautiful Easter Bush Campus at Roslin this week to deliver a session on the hot topic of menopause. We talked about feeling the rage and laughed about losing your nouns. Thank you to everyone who came along. If you would like to organise a session like …
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Wikimedian in Residence @emcandre highlights how staff & students are engaging with Wikipedia to address the diversity of editors & content shared online. “The information that is on Wikipedia spreads across the internet. What is right or wrong or missing on Wikipedia affects the entire internet.” (Wadewitz, 2014) Wikipedia, the free, online, encyclopaedia is building …
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We are taking the opportunity of International Women’s Day to rename our Boardroom in Argyle House after Brenda Moon, the first woman to head up a research university library when she was Librarian here at the University of Edinburgh in the 1980s and 90s. Brenda played a major role in bringing the University into the …
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A collection of resources focussing on openness, equality and inclusion developed by the Open.Ed service. The Long View: Changing Perspectives […]
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