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UMIS’s ‘Capturing Lives’
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30 Iuch 2020

University museums have been adapting to Covid-19 since March. Sarah Burry-Hayes discusses how they treated the lockdown as an opportunity to offer digital content and programming.

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Lost limbs, lives and livelihoods
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03 Iuch 2020

The project is supported by £51K from the University of Glasgow GCRF Small Grants Fund which enabled the project team to undertake detailed field work and run focus groups to discuss how community and individual behaviour with respect to landmine risk can be improved in Myanmar.

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The Mystery Filling
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22 Ògmh 2020

Angus Wark shares what it’s like working as a librarian at the National Library of Scotland.

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Taking action to reduce carbon emissions from University business travel
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22 Ògmh 2020

This weekend for Earth Hour Siôn Pickering writes about the need for Universities to cut back on emissions through reduction in business travel.

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What the COVID-19 emergency is teaching us about our institutions
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22 Ògmh 2020

SFC Chief Executive, Karen Watt, pays tribute to the early response by Scotland’s colleges and universities to the pandemic.

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Supporting autistic students in uncertain times.
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22 Ògmh 2020

Catriona Mowat describes how the Student Wellbeing Service at Glasgow Caledonian University became the first in the UK to receive accreditation by the National Autistic Society (NAS).

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How college innovation is bringing online learning to health and social care workers
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14 Cèit 2020

Forth Valley College’s e-learning induction programme is one of the projects being funded by the Scottish Funding Council’s College Innovation Fund.

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Going down to Massachusetts
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28 Gibl 2020

SFC’s Keith McDonald on the plan for Scottish universities to apply lessons from MIT’s innovation approach, following a recent visit to see ‘how the other half innovate’.

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Scaling up innovation
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28 Gibl 2020

SFC's Robin Lee on his visit to Scottish Sea Farms, and how innovation in Scottish aquaculture is bring industry together and creating jobs.

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