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SFC blogs published since 2018 are available to view below. See SFC archived content for earlier blogs.

30 Jul 2020

UMIS’s ‘Capturing Lives’: Using university collections to engage young people through lockdown

Author: Sarah Burry-Hayes, Co-ordinator of University Museums in Scotland (UMIS)

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.

03 Jul 2020

Lost limbs, lives and livelihoods: a collaboration to understand the behaviour of communities in land mine-affected Myanmar

Author: Dr Brian Barrett, University of Glasgow, School of Geographical & Earth Sciences

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.