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What’s it like to be a virtual language ambassador?

10 April, 2023

Recent French and Spanish MA (Hons) graduate, Anna, talks us through her final year experience.

What it is like having a writing mentor?

10 April, 2023English and Scottish Literature Life at LLC Postgraduate

Creative Writing student Tim Tim Cheng talks about her experience as a mentee of the Roddy Lumsden…

Breathing new life into fascinating archival footage of Scotland's lifeboats on our wild seas

10 April, 2023

Shona Thomson tells us how the making of her FOCAL Award-shortlisted film is being used on our Film…

Sharing a love of literature with people around the world

10 April, 2023

PhD student in English Literature Carolina Buffoli talks to us about her role as a Teaching…

Judging the James Tait Black Prizes 2021: Ash Jayamohan

10 April, 2023English and Scottish Literature Life at LLC

First year PhD in English Literature candidate Ash Jayamohan talks about their experience as a…

Meet our graduates: Harry Richards (Spanish and History)

24 March, 2023European Languages and Cultures Meet our graduates Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies Undergraduate

Harry is a filmmaker whose short film SANTI was selected for the BFI Future Film Festival 2022.

The School of Scottish Studies Archives at 70

11 March, 2023Celtic and Scottish Studies Research

It’s 70 years since the University began collecting images, stories and voices of unheard Scottish…

Festive festschrifts – graduates edit books in honour of PhD mentors

08 December, 2022European Languages and Cultures Meet our graduates Scandinavian Studies

We sit down with Scandinavian Studies graduates Christian Cooijmans and Ian Giles, editors of two…

Meet our graduates: Becky Waterton (German and Scandinavian Studies)

07 December, 2022European Languages and Cultures German Meet our graduates Scandinavian Studies Undergraduate

Deputy Editor of The Local in Sweden, Becky graduated with an MA (Hons) in German and Scandinavian…

Experiencing the Edinburgh festivals as an intern

20 October, 2022

English Literature student Susanna Demelas tells us about spending the summer working on some of…