October 2020

Professor Sarah Skerratt

Professor Sarah Skerratt is Chief Executive of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), having been the Director of Programmes for two years, heading up research, international, enterprise, policy, public engagement, Fellowship and Young Academy teams. She also delivers to the ‘Inclusive Public Service’ workstream of the RSE’s Post-Covid Futures Commission. Prior to this, Sarah was Director of Policy Engagement at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), where she worked for just over two decades.

Rachel Dishington: The Stevenson Maps and Plans of Scotland: Creating a Map-based Finding Aid

Event date: 
Wednesday 25 November 2020 to Thursday 26 November 2020
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
Zoom
  • Wednesday 25 November at 16:00, online via Zoom

The Stevenson Maps and Plans of Scotland: Creating a Map-based Finding Aid

Speaker: Rachel Dishington, University of Edinburgh and National Library of Scotland Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD student

More info and booking link: https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/events/stevenson-maps-and-plans-scotland

Stella Chan: Project Soothe: Developing Imagery Based Digital Wellbeing Tools

Event date: 
Wednesday 11 November 2020 to Thursday 12 November 2020
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
Zoom
  • Wednesday 11 November at 16:00, online via Zoom

Project Soothe: Developing Imagery Based Digital Wellbeing Tools

Speaker: Stella Chan, Reader in Clinical Psychology at the School of Health in Social Science

More info and booking link: https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/events/project-soothe-developing-imagery-based-digital-wellbeing-tools

Paul Gooding, Melissa Terras, Isabel Galina, and Graeme Hawley: Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future

Event date: 
Thursday 5 November 2020 to Friday 6 November 2020
Location: 
Zoom
  • Thursday 5 November at 16:00, online via Zoom

Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future

Speakers: Paul Gooding, Melissa Terras, Isabel Galina, and Graeme Hawley

More info and booking link: https://www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/events/electronic-legal-deposit-shaping-library-collections-future

The Institute Project on Decoloniality

October 30, 2020
Chief Chatoyer of the Garifuna

The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities is delighted to announce a new three-year programme of Fellowships: the Institute Project on Decoloniality 2021-24 (IPD’24). This project offers £750,000 in Fellowship funding for scholars from around the world to visit Edinburgh and conduct research on the theme of decoloniality, broadly understood.