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Graduate’s outstanding thesis on succession politics wins 2025 BRAIS Prize

02 December, 2025Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Postgraduate Research

We speak to Dr Leone Pecorini Goodall about his award-winning PhD research.

Head and shoulders portrait of Dr Leone Pecorini Goodall

Professor Rob Dunbar wins the RSE Sir Walter Scott Medal

19 November, 2025Celtic and Scottish Studies Research Teaching

We speak to the medallist and his students about his work promoting and protecting minority…

Rob Dunbar holding the Sir Walter Scott medal

Meet our graduates: Hector Shaw (Scottish Ethnology and English Literature)

28 October, 2025Celtic and Scottish Studies English and Scottish Literature Meet our graduates Undergraduate

Juggling careers in marketing and music using skills from across his degree.

Hector looking at the camera from below. Only his head and shoulders are visible.

Meet our graduates: Zebib K. Abraham (Creative Writing)

02 June, 2025English and Scottish Literature Meet our graduates Postgraduate

Creative Writing graduate Zebib receives Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award.

Zebib K Abraham on a green sofa, smiling at the camera with her head titled.

Inside The Inkwell 2025

14 April, 2025English and Scottish Literature Life at LLC Undergraduate

We talk to Cristi Watson, literature student and PublishED’s Head of Design.

Photo of Cristi on a sunny day in George Square gardens at the University of Edinburgh

A new way to engage with Arabic: students attend Emirates LitFest

07 April, 2025Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Life at LLC Undergraduate

We hear from four final year students about their literary trip to Dubai.

Photo of four students and their tutor at a literary festival. They are smiling at the camera.

Two in a row! Jess Polito makes it back-to-back wins for Edinburgh in the Japanese Speech Contest

21 March, 2025Asian Studies Life at LLC Undergraduate

We speak to the second year student about her prize-winning experience.

Photo of a student standing at a podium delivering a talk

Jack Medal win for research on Scotland and Germany

14 March, 2025German Research European Languages and Cultures English and Scottish Literature Teaching

Dr Eleoma Bodammer talks about her prize-winning work on John Stuart Blackie.

Eleoma Bodammer Prize 900 x 400

From podcast fan to producer

14 March, 2025Life at LLC Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies European Languages and Cultures Undergraduate

Matt, a Spanish and Politics student, tells us how he turned his love for podcasts into a role…

Matt O'Malley in the Old College Quad

Meet our graduates: Yixiang Shirley Lin (Film, Exhibition and Curation)

03 March, 2025Film and Intermediality Meet our graduates Postgraduate

Yixiang developed her final masters project into the MINT Chinese Film Festival of which she is Co-…