Mediating Children’s Reading
How should children read, and what, and why? The benefits of reading, for the individual child and for society, have at various points in history been bound up with the dangers that reading has been seen to potentially pose.
Title: Duncan Campbell: Big data and Broken Law – Suspicionless Surveillance in a World of Ubiquitous Data - 4th Annual CRISP Lecture
Date: 21 June 2016 5.45 p.m.
Organiser: Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP)
Venue: Teviot Lecture Theatre, Door 5, Old Medical Quad, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG
CRFR Emotions Seminars 2016
The performance of care: emotion work, selfhood and acting.
Amanda Stuart-Fisher, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London Wednesday 27th April 2016
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Emotional care work in the ambulance service.
Emma Rowland, King's College London
Wednesday 25th May 2016
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Reflecting on emotions and resilience in midwifery.
Billie Hunter, Cardiff University
Wednesday 22nd June 2016
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Professor Adriana Craciun: Arctic Enlightenments
IASH Work in Progress talk
Dr Nimah Mazaheri (Tufts University, Massachusetts; IASH Fellow): The Specialization Curse: The Effect of Economic Specialization on Public Goods
Event Name: Second Annual Conference on Chinese Language Teaching in Scotland
Date: Friday 24 June
Time: 9:30am to 5.00
Location: 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh Book via eventbrite:
Do you want to experience how scientists investigate the ageing of the human brain?!?
On Friday the 24th June the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (CCACE) and Centre for Regenerative Medicine are hosting an open day event as part of the MRC's Festival of Medical Science 2016 called The Brain Maze: Amaze your brain.
Department of Psychology - University of Edinburgh 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ
FRIDAY, 24TH JUNE, 2016
12:00 noon – 2:00pm, Room 1.37, Paterson’s Land, Moray House School of Education
Cathrine Hasse (Aarhus University): The difference between human and posthuman learning.
[Centre for Research in Digital Education]
Join us for an exciting journey into interdisciplinary research on the 28th of June 2016!
sIREN: A Workshop
sIREN (student-led Interdisciplinary REsearch Network) is a one-day workshop and networking event organized by PhD students in Edinburgh College of Art. It aims at bringing together researchers, staff and research students for exchanging research methods, knowledge and ideas around interdisciplinary research and its potential.
Dr Graham Hubbs: On the Question ‘What is Money?’